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8:43 pm
April 25, 2011
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I've been hearing a lot about the benefits of juicing and I'm interested in trying it out. Good idea? Thoughts?
9:38 am
January 19, 2011
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Sure juicing is a great thing, particularly if it contains organic vegetables and herbs, and not just fruits. The couple problems with juicers are however, is that they're typically a pain to clean (and keep clean), and you waste a lot of the fruit/vegetable during the processing.
I actually prefer a Vitamix, and would recommend that over any juicer. With a Vitamix you can put the whole fruit/vege in there and blend it up to a liquid. They're easy to clean too. The price, around $500, discourages many people, but you get a full 7-year warranty with them. It's a super powerful blender that I wish I bought many years ago. I'll peel an orange and put the entire fruit in there (with seeds), half a lemon (with the skin), parsley, cilantro, strawberries, kale, honey, water, and finally the whey protein powder to make a great smoothie shake. You can't do that with a juicer!
2:17 pm
April 25, 2011
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In my research of the topic and talking with juicing enthusiasts, the common belief is that you can expect higher quality living juice from a masticating juicer. The high speed processing which food undergoes in a regular juicer machine is detrimental to the vitamins and living enzymes content that make fresh juice so healthy to begin with. In a high speed juicer machine, a stainless steel blade spins at several thousand revolutions per minute (RPM) to shred up ingredients. Two things occur, firstly the friction from the shredding generates heat, and secondly the juice becomes frothy from air being mixed in. Vitamin compounds and enzyme bodies are very sensitive, and will become denatured through heat. They are also destroyed (or oxidised, in scientific terms) through contact with oxygen from air. A masticating juicer only operates at speeds of between 60 and 160 RPM, meaning that little if any heat is ever generated and that no air is mixed into the liquid. Juice made with masticating juicers has been scientifically proven to contain significantly higher levels of nutrients, enzymes, and vitamins.
Am I missing something? Thoughts?
3:59 pm
January 19, 2011
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Heat and oxygen do definitely do that, but I question to what degree you're actually going to destroy nutrients & enzymes. Is there definitive proof showing significantly higher levels of nutrients in juicers?. If you have it, please share; I'm definitely interested hearing it. My understanding is that you would have to heat the food ingredients much higher than what they're going to get in any blender, and for much longer. I don't see how pulverizing fruits and veges at a high speed for <1 min is going to cause any significant nutrition loss. And the air that is mixed in? That sounds extreme to me. You're working with the ingredients in open air. As soon as you cut a fruit or vege it is going to start oxidizing. But hey, I'm open to hear otherwise…
I've heard similar comments from those who say not to run your blender on high when using whey protein as it denatures the protein somewhat and destroys the beneficial glutathione in the powder, because of the heat generated. But they've never been able to back that up with any proof. I still mix it at a slow temp, partially because if you whip it fast it creates froth and doesn't taste as good.
Good discussion; thanks!
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