Wednesday, September 4, 2013

Great Juice Recipes

By Allison Clark


Juicing not only provides a person numerous amounts of health benefits, they also have the opportunity to create various delicious juice recipes by simply experimenting and mixing and matching different kinds of vegetables and fruits. Regularly experimenting on what juice to make will help you to enjoy juicing more and sooner you will be more inclined to enjoy drinking fresh fruit and vegetable juices rather than drink canned juices and soda which gives you minimum to no health benefits.

There are people that confuse a juicer from a blender and thus make a mistake of juicing with the use of a blender. In order to make a juice out of fruits and vegetables, one must make use of a juicer. A juicer works by squeezing the liquid out of fruits and vegetables while the solid parts like pulp, skin, rind, stem and other fibrous parts are separated. When you use a juicer, the end product should be a thin liquid which is known as the juice. On the other hand, a blender is used to produce a smoothie-like consistency of the product by putting either a vegetable or fruit inside it. The amount of water content as well as the amount of fruits or vegetables you put in the blender affects the thickness of its product.

If you want to know what kinds of fruits and vegetables are best for juicing, the answer would depend on how healthy and what health benefits you would want to get from the juice recipe that you are looking for. In order to know what health benefits you can get from the juice recipe that you are planning to make, you should know the individual health benefits of the fruits and vegetables that you are planning to include in your juice recipe. It is also important to know that though most fruits and vegetables can be juiced, there are certain kinds of fruits and vegetables that produce a lot more juice than the others. Here are some useful information that you may need to know when making great juice recipes:

- Not all fruits and vegetables are the same. There are those fruits and vegetables that contains higher nutritional and health value compared to others and being able to know this information will help you to decide what fruits and vegetables you must include in your juice recipe.

-It is also advisable to include different fruits and vegetables that are in various colors. Colors of the fruits and vegetables usually indicate presence of different nutrients. Also try to imagine each fruit and vegetables' individual taste and try to imagine what combination of fruits and vegetables would go along together in relation to their taste. Being creative is important in juicing in order to produce great juice recipes.

-Chopping and slicing your fruits and vegetables prior to placing them in your juicer is recommended to facilitate faster and easier juicing.

-To prevent damage of your juicer, large pits and seeds should be removed.




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