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Tips When Making Home Made Citrus Juice

2010-08-14T12:23:00.000-07:00

Fresh home made citrus juice is a great way to obtain daily vitamin C requirements and help boost your immune system. Citrus juice contains high levels of Vitamin C, Vitamin B or folic acid and Vitamin A. In particular, orange juice is an excellent source of vitamin C, potassium, folate and thiamin. Follow these tips and steps to make home made citrus juice with a juicer:

Fresh Fruit - Always choose and juice fresh citrus fruit to achieve the best taste and most nutritional value. Avoid fruit that is too ripe or has brown or bruised areas.

Citrus Fruits to Juice - Valencia oranges are typically the best oranges to juice. When juicing oranges, grapefruits, lemons or limes, choose medium sized fruits for easier juicing.

Proper Storage - Store citrus fruit at room temperatures. Higher juice yields are obtained from citrus fruits that are kept at room temperatures.

Juice and Drink - Oxygen is very damaging to the nutrients in fresh juice, especially to Vitamin C. It is best to juice amounts that will be immediately consumed to enjoy the best, freshest taste, while also getting the highest levels of nutritional benefits. Juices are rapidly absorbed into the blood stream and thus represent a quick way for the body to digest nutrients. Drink juice on an empty stomach, or before eating a meal, to maximize the absorption and cut down on potential overeating.

The Breville 800CPXL Die-Cast Stainless-Steel Motorized Citrus Press is a citrus juicer that consistently receives top ratings and is a best selling juicer.

Visit Juicers Compare to learn about the healthy benefits of juicing fruits and vegetables. Review all types of juicers including masticating, centrifugal, wheatgrass, steam and citrus juicers.

What Is Juice Fasting?

2010-08-06T19:40:00.000-07:00

Fasting means to abstain from certain types of food or drink. Juice fasting is a particular type of fasting during which a person consumes only fruit and or vegetable juices. A good masticating or wheatgrass juicer is an excellent appliance to use to create varied home made juices for a fast. Fasting provides many healthy physical benefits including:

■Detoxification

■Weight loss

■Increased energy

■Lowered blood pressure and cholesterol, and

■An improved immune system

A juice fast is an excellent way to achieve the above physical benefits. Most people know that fruits and vegetables are loaded with various antioxidants and phytonutrients including vitamins C, E, beta carotene and other enzymes. A concentrated juice fast will provide an ample supply of antioxidants that will bind to toxins, free radicals and oxidized cells and carry these internal poisons out of your body. In particular fasting with vegetable juice is a great way to cleanse your internal organs, tissues and cells.

Juice is obviously highly and easily digestible. The carbohydrates in juice are digested rapidly and require only a small amount of digestive energy, leaving you feeling refreshed and not sluggish. Without solid food, your body will look for other sources of fuel including excess glucose and fat cells, ultimately reducing body weight.

Organic fruits and vegetables are best to use when juice fasting as these foods are grown without the use of pesticides or other chemicals. Great foods to juice for a healthy, cleansing fast include: beets, carrots, celery, cucumber, collard greens, garlic, ginger, grapefruit, lemon, lime, sprouts, wheatgrass, kale, parsley, lettuce and apples.

Some people like to include some fiber in their home made juice, like psyllium or flax, to maintain good waste removal. Psyllium is not absorbed by the body, increases in volume when mixed with water, and thus can help aid intestine cleansing.

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Home Made V8 Juice

2010-07-29T18:59:00.000-07:00

Do you like V8 juice bought from the store? If so, make home made V8 like juice at home using your juicer. It is simple. Basically just juice any combination of carrots, celery, tomatoes, garlic, basil, cilantro, parsley, hot pepper, onion and or lemon. Vary the ingredients to suit your taste.

Tips For Making Great Homemade Citrus Juice With A Juicer

2010-07-10T12:43:00.000-07:00

Fresh Fruit - Always choose and juice fresh citrus fruit to achieve the best taste and most nutritional value. Avoid fruit that is too ripe or has brown or bruised areas.

Citrus Fruits to Juice - Valencia oranges are typically the best oranges to juice. When juicing oranges, grapefruits, lemons or limes, choose medium sized fruits for easier juicing.

Proper Storage - Store citrus fruit at room temperatures. Higher juice yields are obtained from citrus fruits that are kept at room temperatures.

Juice and Drink - Oxygen is very damaging to the nutrients in fresh juice, especially to Vitamin C. It is best to juice amounts that will be immediately consumed to enjoy the best, freshest taste, while also getting the highest levels of nutritional benefits. Juices are rapidly absorbed into the blood
stream and thus represent a quick way for the body to digest nutrients. Drink juice on an empty stomach or before eating a meal to maximize the absorption and cut down on overeating.

The Breville 800CPXL Die-Cast Stainless-Steel Motorized Citrus Press is a citrus juicer that consistently receives top ratings and is a best selling juicer.

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June Is National Fresh Fruit And Vegetable Month

2010-06-06T10:29:00.000-07:00

A Center for Disease and Control report stated that only 33 and 27 percent of adults meet the recommended fruit and vegetable consumption of two fruit servings and three vegetable servings per day. Students consumed even less fruits and vegetables per day. Most people understand the health benefits of a diet rich in vegetables and fruits, which include lower blood pressure and lower risks of heart disease and cancer, however, our collective fruit and vegetable deficiency continues.

Want an easy way to increase your consumption of fruits and vegetables? Use a juicer to make fresh, homemade fruit and vegetable juice. In general a 6 ounce glass of fresh juice is the equivalent of one fruit or vegetable serving. Juice away!

Pasteurized Juice Loses Flavor, Aroma and Taste

2010-05-09T16:15:00.000-07:00

Over 95% of commercially available juice is pasteurized. Pasteurization is the process by which liquids are heated to very high temperatures in order to kill any potential pathogens in the juice. However, pasteurization also kills a juice's flavor, taste and aroma. In fact, juice manufacturers use flavor packs, an assortment of chemical compunds, to add flavor, taste and aroma back to pasteurized juice. Without flavor packs, most bottled, canned or frozen concentrate juice would be flavorless.

Want the healthiest and freshest juice possible? Use a juicer to make homemade juice.

Do Not Juice These Food Parts

2010-04-25T15:44:00.000-07:00

The following fruit and vegetable parts should not be juiced. Do not run these food items through your juicer:
- Grapefruit and orange skins contain a mild toxin and taste bitter anyways.
- Apple seeds contain small amounts of toxins, remove the seeds from apples before juicing.
- Do not put mildly toxic carrot or rhubarb greens into your juicer.

Which Fruits And Vegetables Are You Juicing?

2010-04-11T09:53:00.000-07:00

Different types of juicers work best with certain types of produce. Centrifugal juicers, which operate at very high speeds, are best to use with bigger more solid produce like apples and carrots. Masticating juicers also work well with leafy greens and soft berries. These juicers are good with thinner or softer produce that needs to be squeezed and grinded to extract all of their juices.

Are you primarily a citrus fruit juicer? Then a simple juicer like the Black & Decker CJ525 CitrusMate Plus Citrus Juicer is all you need.

Determine which produce you want to juice and find the juicer that best meets your needs.

Sinus Cleaner - Juicer Recipe

2010-04-02T19:43:00.000-07:00

Ingredients
- 2 tomatoes
- 1/2 of a peeled cucumber
- 4 to 5 cleaned and scrubbed radishes
- 1/2 of a peeled lime or lemon
- if really adventurous, add a small dash of tabasco after the main ingredients are juiced

Cut the produce so it easily fits in your juicer's feding tube and then juice away.

Cabbage & Carrots - Juicer Recipe

2010-03-18T20:51:00.000-07:00

Ingredients:
1/4 of a small cabbage head
3 well scrubbed carrots, make sure the green tops are removed
3 to 4 celery stalks

Cut the vegetables so that they can be easily fed into the juicer. Juice and drink immediately.

Want To Make The Healthiest Juice?

2010-03-09T20:05:00.000-08:00

The best way to make the healthiest juice with a juicer is to use organic produce whenever you can. Organic fruits and vegetables are grown without pesticides, fungicides, herbicides or other harmful chemicals. Plus, organic foods are not grown from genetically modified seeds. When juicing, always try to use certified organic produce.

Celery - The 4th Dirtiest Vegetable

2010-03-06T19:36:00.000-08:00

March is National Celery Month. If you juice a lot of celery you might want to use organic celery that is grown free of pesticides and other chemicals. The Environmental Work Group recently published their list of the cleanest and dirtiest fruits and vegetables. Celery was the fourth dirtiest.

Juice organic celery. Pesticides can seep into the meat of fruits and vegetables, thus, even a thorough washing and cleaning cannot get all of the chemicals out of the food.

March Is National Celery Month

2010-02-27T17:51:00.000-08:00

March is National Celery month. Celery is a great vegetable to add to juice recipes and is best juiced with a masticating juicer. Celery is a great source of fiber, including soluble fiber. Soluble fiber lowers total cholesterol, in particular LDL cholesterol (the bad cholesterol), and thus reduces the risk of heart disease. Soluble fiber also helps regulate blood sugar.

Juice more celery in March!

February Is National Fiber Month - Use A Juicer To Increase Your Fiber

2010-02-20T11:36:00.000-08:00

February is focus on fiber month. Fiber is a part of plant foods (like fruits and vegetables) that support and enhance good health. Fiber is non-digestible. This means that fiber is not completely broken down by the enzymes in the digestive system and thus passes all through the intestines.

Studies exploring the role of fiber in weight management found that eating an additional 14 grams of fiber each day resulted in a 10 percent decrease in calorie intake and weight loss of about four pounds within three months.*

Juicing fruits and vegetables is a great, easy way to increase fiber in your diet. Home made juice will include soluble fiber which helps you feel full. Soluble fiber also helps lower LDL cholesterol (also known as bad cholesterol) levels and regulates blood sugar levels.

* Howarth NC et al (2001), Dietary fiber and weight regulation, Nutr Rev 59:129-139.

Two Basic Juicer Types

2010-02-09T06:09:00.000-08:00

Centrifugal and Masticating Juicers

Centrifugal means moving or directed outward from the center. Centrifugal juicers use a rotating blade to cut fruit and vegetables. As it is cut, juice is released and flies towards the sides of the juicer while pulp is retained in the center.

Masticating juicers operate at slower and lower speeds, compared to centrifugal juicers, and grind, chew and squeeze juice out of food. Manufacturers of masticating juicers claim they break down a food's fiber more thoroughly than centrifugal juicers and thus release more
nutrients.

All Fruit - Juicer Recipe

2010-02-04T20:06:00.000-08:00

Ingredients:
- 3 or 4 slices of pineapple
- One half of an orange
- 4 strawberries
- A handful of red or green grapes.

Juice it up and drink immediately.

Hot Sauce In A Glass - Juicer Recipe

2010-01-24T03:40:00.000-08:00

Ingredients - 1 tomato, 1/2 of a peeled cucumber, 1/2 of a peeled lime, a small sprigs of cilantro and a dash of tabasco, hot sauce or picante or salsa.

Cut the food to a manageable size and feed it into your juicer. Drink immediately.

Easy Cucumber Juicer Recipe

2010-01-24T03:34:00.000-08:00

Ingredients - 1 peeled cucumber and 1/2 of a peeled lemon.

Cut the food to a manageable size and feed it into your juicer. Drink immediately.

Why You Should Use A Juicer

2010-01-13T05:30:00.000-08:00

Why should you use a juicer? A juicer provides a very easy way for anyone to quickly make and consume part or all of the recommended daily amounts of fruits and vegetables. A recent report published by the Center for Disease and Control stated that only 33 and 27 percent of adults meet the recommended fruit and vegetable consumption of two fruit servings and three vegetable servings per day. Students consumed even less fruits and vegetables per day. In fact, only 32% and 13% of students met the daily recommended fruit and vegetable requirements.

An electric juicer can be part of the solution to our collective need for more fruits and vegetables. In general a 6 ounce (or 3/4 cup) glass of fruit or vegetable juice is the equivalent of one fruit or vegetable serving. A juicer can very quickly and easily make fresh home made juice and help you maintain a healthy and balanced lifestyle.