Archive for September, 2009

What you can use for Juicing

Wednesday, September 9th, 2009

There are hundreds of juicer recipes with different nutrients and effects to the human body. Each fruit and vegetable has unique characteristics and substances that give you a healthier and sound body. Your choice should depend on what you want to achieve. But before you put those fruits and vegetables into your juicers, get to know them first.

For Vegetable juicers:
Carrots – the most basic ingredient in juicing because of its sweet, mild flavor. It helps improve the eyesight and stomach ulcers.
Cucumbers – helps in reducing the strong flavor of other vegetable juices. It cleans the kidneys and lowers high blood pressure. It even improves skin problems.
Beets – has a very strong taste and is recommended to be combined with other juices. It has the ability to clean the blood and fortify the gall bladder and liver.
Tomatoes – contains Lycopene which is an anti-oxidant that help decrease the risk of prostate cancer.
Broccoli – can prevent breast cancer.
Other green vegetables contain phytochemicals. Fresh juices from these can protect our bodies from cancer-causing substances.

For Fruit juicers:
Apple – has malic acid which aids in softening gall stones.
Cranberries – contain querceting, tannins and flavonoids which are anti-bacterial and help reduce inflammations and risks for tumors.
Grapes – have phytochemicals which help in protecting our DNA cells from damage.
Papayas – helps you have smoother digestions.
Citrus fruits have elements that make it easier for our body to remove carcinogens and lessen our chances of getting cancer.

You know your goal. You know which fruit or vegetable can help you achieve that. Get a commercial juicer of your own and juice away. The benefits will be worth it.

Grow your own Juice

Tuesday, September 1st, 2009

In all vegetable juice diets, it is recommended to get organic crops. This means that they are grown with less, if not none at all, pesticides or fertilizers of any type. This ensures that you are getting them thus getting the complete nutrients. If you have fresh vegetables in your electric juicers, you also get fresh juices.

But what if the closest place you can buy vegetables is a supermarket where they don’t come as organic as you want them to be? Should your vegetable juicing experience suffer?

For non-organic vegetables, you can wash them thoroughly to make sure that all pesticide remains are removed. However, the down-side to this is that since most nutrients lay just beneath the outer layer, the nutrients are also removed in washing.

Another option you might want to consider is growing your own organic garden. Yep, a garden. You grow your own carrots, beets, tomatoes and anything you want to juice.  If you own your own crops, you get to see what happens and what goes on what. You can also make sure that no harmful pesticides or fertilizers that have ill-effects on the crops are present. What goes on your juicer is the freshest of the fresh. Another advantage is that you never run out of vegetables to juice. If you suddenly need one, you can just pick up your type of vegetable; put it in your vegetable juicer and juice fast.

Yes, having a garden isn’t easy. It requires your time, patience and love. But one day, all the sweat and effort will be all worth it. Its rewards are manifested in the crops that you’ll reap. The fresher the fruit; the fresher the juice. Your health juicer will definitely be put to good use.