An Introduction to Juicing - Getting the Best from Fruits and Vegetables - Benefits


By eating freshly juiced or blended fruit and vegetables, you are getting as many of the nutrients as possible, giving you almost unbelievable health advantages. Consider what most people eat - they buy vegetables and fruit, it lies about for a bit, they peel them, chop them, cook them and finally eat them with hardly anything left in the way of goodness. This way, when consumed IMMEDIATELY you are ensuring yourself of the vital vitamins, minerals and other nutrients your body requires.

Let's take one example, the orange. Now everyone is aware that the orange is packed with Vitamin C, and so it is. Normally a freshly squeezed orange though is only the actual juice of the orange, when in fact, the majority of the fruits clout is in the pith, that white flesh you discard along with the squeezed out skin. Oranges contain more than just Vitamin C though; did you know it is a good source of calcium? But to get all of the goodness, you need to extract as much from it as possible, that's why you would peel it leaving as much of the pith on as possible, before popping it into your juice extractor.

As most people find vegetables harder to eat in quantity than fruit (speaking for myself at any rate) it is the ability of juicing to give you some valuable nutrients you might never absorb that makes juicing a thing not just worthwhile but essential.

Take for example the carrot. This often ignored at the side of the plate vegetable is an amazing source of some wonderful nutrients. However, our bodies are not that good at extracting them from the hard vegetable, and few of us have the teeth to properly grind it down in the first place. Your juice extractor gives you what you would otherwise have missed - meaning you are getting more for your buck! And all from a cheap handful of carrots at that!



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