Tuesday, October 21, 2014

Starting A Juice Diet Plan? Consider These Juicing Tips

By Greg Nelson


Juicing is the best way to incorporate minerals and vitamins into your diet. If you have kids it's also a great way to get them to enjoy their fruits and vegetables. You can make great tasting juice recipes that you and your kids will like. Keep reading to get great tips on juicing from home.

Store your home made juice in a nontransparent, air-tight container with no extra space for air. To prevent extra air from ruining your juice, add filtered water to the top of the container, or use a food saver to remove the extra air. Fresh juice can be stored up to 24 hours.

Reuse the pulp from your vegetable juices to cut down on waste. You can use vegetable pulp as a base for soups and stews, to add flavor and texture. In addition, the pulp can be used as the base for a compost, which you can then use in your garden to grow even more fresh vegetables.

Don't juice low-water content produce, such as avocado and banana. Put these through a blender first, then add them to your juice afterward. These types of fruits will produce a heavy, thick juice that will clog up your juicer. Also, it is difficult to get enough juice of this type of fruit alone, so it needs to be mixed with another type of fruit.

There are a million-and-one recipes of items to include in your juice recipes. You can try a combination like apple with carrot and ginger, or celery and pear. My favorites are apple with pear and lemon, apple with cinnamon and honey. My niece's favorite is banana with mango and orange. Try new ideas to find your own favorites!

When you start juicing do your research on what kind of juicer you want to buy. Masticating juicers take longer to juice but they always get the most amount of juice possible. Centrifugal juicers are cheaper and work faster but it can leave the fiber juicy.

To get more out of your juicer be open to trying fruit and vegetable combinations that you would not normally try. Start out with basic juices, such as apple, carrot or cucumber, but then get creative. Experiment with different vegetables and fruits. You can even use fresh herbs.

Juicing at home doesn't have to be expensive or time consuming. You can dramatically improve the way that you look and feel, and the way that your kids look and feel, just by juicing for one meal of the day. Work it into breakfast, lunch or dinner to make a the difference in the health of your family. Use the tips you read here to make juicing a reality.




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