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

Juicing means just that. Using a juicing machine you extract as much juice as possible, leaving behind simply the fibres of the fruit or vegetable.

Why do this? Because normally our bodies only take in a fraction of the available nutrients, either because we only consume part of the fruit or the nutrients don't get a chance to be fully extracted as they are jumbled up in the rest of it. Or if they do, it is after a very lengthy digestion process.

Pure juice gets to your system quicker and if you juice as much of the fruit or vegetable as possible, you get all the nutrients you might otherwise have thrown away. In many fruits and vegetable the vast bulk of the nutrients are in the skin. So peeling a fruit or vegetable is a bit like buying a car and ripping out the engine!

Blending
Not all fruits or vegetables are suitable for juicing. You won't get much juice out of a banana or an avacado, but they are excellent for making smoothies - this is where blending comes in.

Making smoothies with nothing but fresh fruit and perhaps some live yoghurt can make some of the sweetest tastiest desserts you have ever tasted. Once you try some of these, you'll never want an unhealthy ice cream again!

Both methods save you time and energy, because you are not going to have to do all that chewing! And if did chew through all of the ingredients to your average recipe suggestion, you would not only be exhausted, you probably wouldn't want to do it anyway! By juicing and blending you are getting all the fabulous health giving properties of fruits and vegetables without pain - and eating a lot more of them than you normally would.


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