Juicing vegetables, when it comes to vegetables about anything goes. However I recommend to add about 70% of high water content vegetables, like cucumbers, bell pepper, tomatoes, zucchini, beets & celery. The other 30% should be nutrient dense vegetables, the most nutrient dense foods are leafy greens. Make sure to juice loads of them as these will pack a lot of nutrients in very little amount of juice. So you will have all the health benefits without much of the taste. When operating a juicer always make sure to rotate your produce. Don’t feed in all your apples then follow up with some kale and after the kale adding some beets. By adding a small slice of apple, then following with one or two leaves of kale, then following with a small amount of beets, then repeats this until you are out of produce is the best way. This way the juice mixes up nicely. Plus this way you will be less likely to clog up the machine as you are using the harder vegetables to press down the leafy greens. So a big tip is rotating soft and hard veggies to keep you juicer from clogging.
Juicing fruits, I my opinion a juicer is not the best way to process fruits. A blender is what I prefer to process fruits. Juicers are made to process things with hard fiber. If you can squeeze out the juice from it with your hand. It is meant to be blended in my opinion. When you eat fruits whole or blended you get loads of nutrients that are trapped in the pulp when juicing. With vegetables or hard fruits that have hard cell walls or body can’t break down it is better to juice, in this way you will get the nutrition that is trapped in the cell walls, that will be squeezed out by a juicer. Next of fruits can be expensive and a lot of it will be wasted since they can be consumed whole. If you want to process fruits I recommend the homogenizing attachment that comes with various juicer. This will more or less blend your fruit making a sort of puree. Personally I use this attachment with frozen fruits to make an amazing fruit sorbet. This is way tastier & healthier than ice cream. The best juicers to juice fruits are the vertical auger style juicers. Fruits should be added to your juice to add some sweetness and cover up the taste of leafy greens, this way you will not overload on sugars cause that is basically what fruits are. I recommend apples, pears, lemons & oranges.
To see what benefits comes with juicing check out the documentary fat sick and nearly dead for free at the following link(US-residents only) : http://www.hulu.com/watch/289122
Juicing fruits, I my opinion a juicer is not the best way to process fruits. A blender is what I prefer to process fruits. Juicers are made to process things with hard fiber. If you can squeeze out the juice from it with your hand. It is meant to be blended in my opinion. When you eat fruits whole or blended you get loads of nutrients that are trapped in the pulp when juicing. With vegetables or hard fruits that have hard cell walls or body can’t break down it is better to juice, in this way you will get the nutrition that is trapped in the cell walls, that will be squeezed out by a juicer. Next of fruits can be expensive and a lot of it will be wasted since they can be consumed whole. If you want to process fruits I recommend the homogenizing attachment that comes with various juicer. This will more or less blend your fruit making a sort of puree. Personally I use this attachment with frozen fruits to make an amazing fruit sorbet. This is way tastier & healthier than ice cream. The best juicers to juice fruits are the vertical auger style juicers. Fruits should be added to your juice to add some sweetness and cover up the taste of leafy greens, this way you will not overload on sugars cause that is basically what fruits are. I recommend apples, pears, lemons & oranges.
To see what benefits comes with juicing check out the documentary fat sick and nearly dead for free at the following link(US-residents only) : http://www.hulu.com/watch/289122
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