Monday, September 9, 2013

Great Recipes For Vegetable And Fruit Juice

By Allison Clark


The opportunity to create different flavors and recipe of fresh juice by mixing and matching various vegetables and fruits is just one of the many advantages that one can get in juicing. Aside from that, there are also many health benefits that one can get in making it a habit of consuming freshly squeezed fruit and vegetable juices. Compared to drinking canned juice and soda, there are a lot more advantages that you can get in practicing to drink fruit and vegetable juice.

The tool used for juicing is known as the juicer but it is important that we discuss first what's the difference between a juicer and a blender especially that there are people that mistakes a blender for a juicer. Unlike the blender, juicers are used in order to get the liquid part of a vegetable or fruit by squeezing it and separating it from its solid part like skin, pulp, stem, rind and other fibrous parts. When you use a juicer, the product that you will expect to get is a thin liquid which is the juice of either the vegetable of fruit. While the blender is used by placing the edible parts of either vegetables or fruits in order to produce a substance that usually has a consistency similar to slurry. The thickness of the blender's product is dependent on the amount of fruit or vegetable you mix in as well as the water content you decide to mix.

Before you decide on what kinds of fruits and vegetables to include in your juice recipe, you should first know what health benefit you are targeting to get from the juice that you are making in order for you to decide properly on what ingredients you will include in your own juice recipe. You should be aware that different kinds of fruits and vegetables can offer different kinds of health benefits. Aside from that, different fruits and vegetables also has varying water contents that is there may be fruits and vegetables that produce lots of juice while there are some that can only produce a little. The following is a list of important information that can aid you in making great juice recipes:

-Most people know that fruits and vegetables are usually healthy but one should know that certain types of vegetables and fruits can provide more health benefits than the others. Each vegetables and fruits also have specific health benefits to offer and you should know what health benefits you would want in order for you to know what fruits and vegetables to include in your recipe.

-The nutritional content of fruits and vegetables may be indicated by the color that they have. Experts suggest including fruits and vegetables of different colors for you to be able to enjoy the different health benefits of each fruit and vegetables.

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

-For fruits and vegetables that contain large pits and seeds, they should be removed first before you juice them to prevent damage of your juicer.




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