Veg Juicing breakfast

[Peasgood]

Cider doesn't count mate!

 

It does, but this was apple juice not cider.

[Hodge]

The ones that have juice bottles attached seem to be just blenders and not juicers, a juicer you put a whole apple, pear, carrot,kiwi etc in without pealing and it will just extract the juice leaving all the skin, core and seeds behind.

[Mortimer Firewood]

The ones that have juice bottles attached seem to be just blenders and not juicers, a juicer you put a whole apple, pear, carrot,kiwi etc in without pealing and it will just extract the juice leaving all the skin, core and seeds behind.

 

We have one with a bottle/jug on it's really a smoothy maker for soft fruits and berries

[hamdogg]

Yeah mines just a smoothie maker!

[Arran Turner]

[ATTACH]173123[/ATTACH]. I've got one of these over Xmas only a small thing (£20 asda sale) but it's blends like a good un I chuck everything in with big ice cubes!! Just so easy and zero mess! As the drinking bottle is the blender bottle

 

 

I used to have a George foreman version of this, used to keep it at the yard as no one apprieates 6am smoothies with ice. Would leave the unit at the yard all the time and just fill the beaker up with fruit and juice at home and buzz it up when I got to work.. Loved it need to get another

[gensetsteve]

I have a big well made juicer in the garage. Probably old and useless but used to produce huge amounts of pulp and the odd teaspoon of juice you could feed in a carrier bag of fruit and get a cup full if lucky. Should you not be keeping the pulp in for fibre and volume ? but as jeff said dont put the skin in or you will get the sqits.

[hamdogg]

I have a big well made juicer in the garage. Probably old and useless but used to produce huge amounts of pulp and the odd teaspoon of juice you could feed in a carrier bag of fruit and get a cup full if lucky. Should you not be keeping the pulp in for fibre and volume ? but as jeff said dont put the skin in or you will get the sqits.

 

 

That's why I prefer the blender for the smoothies! Get all the goodnes

[TurtleWoods72]

Yes, but if you're after the goodness in 1kg of carrots and 500g of kale, for say Gerson therapy to treat cancer, you're unlike to want to neck 3kg of juice and pulp in a day.

 

The idea of juicing is to take in the micronutrient quality of the veg WITHOUT having to gulp or munch down kilos of fibre (too filling).

 

Comparing juicers to smoothie makers/blenders is like comparing chainsaws to shredders. They do a great job, but a different one.

[teepeeat]

Just curious as to whether it is a good thing to separate the fibre etc out from the 'nutrients'. Is the whole fruit not a balanced product where as just taking the juice out gives you an overpowering shot of certain elements??

No specific knowledge, just curious about this as I have juiced in the past and cant be bothered as I just like to eat fruit and veg as is - mostly raw - and love the taste of it where as some of the juices of the same fruit and veg didnt go down too well - individually or in different blends?? My most successful efforts taste wise were using a blender to mash everything together - particularly when fruit is a tad past its best.

Throw in the cost of a good machine and the cleaning up etc and it just seems unnecessary. (and possibly why a lot of juicers etc end up rotting in a cupboard somewhere?)

Not trying to be negative on the subject as I find the whole food thing very interesting, just giving my thoughts based on personal experience.

History is littered with man trying to improve on nature and take short cuts and am wondering if this is perhaps another of this ilk where it will eventually be proven that nature had it more or less right all along?????

Appreciate everyone else's thoughts on this.

[TurtleWoods72]

Just curious as to whether it is a good thing to separate the fibre etc out from the 'nutrients'. Is the whole fruit not a balanced product where as just taking the juice out gives you an overpowering shot of certain elements??

No specific knowledge, just curious about this as I have juiced in the past and cant be bothered as I just like to eat fruit and veg as is - mostly raw - and love the taste of it where as some of the juices of the same fruit and veg didnt go down too well - individually or in different blends?? My most successful efforts taste wise were using a blender to mash everything together - particularly when fruit is a tad past its best.

Throw in the cost of a good machine and the cleaning up etc and it just seems unnecessary. (and possibly why a lot of juicers etc end up rotting in a cupboard somewhere?)

Not trying to be negative on the subject as I find the whole food thing very interesting, just giving my thoughts based on personal experience.

History is littered with man trying to improve on nature and take short cuts and am wondering if this is perhaps another of this ilk where it will eventually be proven that nature had it more or less right all along?????

Appreciate everyone else's thoughts on this.

As stated in my example above.

 

The amount of worthwhile nutrients in plant matter are in such small concentrations in their natural form that you would have to eat them in horse fodder quantities to survive and flourish. Yes vegetarians can live on such a diet, but most people turn to juicing for different reasons.

 

Either you're in bad health (i.e have tumours) and wish to revert the problem, in which case you give the digestive system a welcome rest and let the colon flush out and repair (gross I know), or you're looking to improve vitality or lose weight.

 

In the first instance it's impractical to much kilos of root veg each day and wouldn't give the digestive tract any rest bite.

 

In the latter scenario, one would be eating a healthy normal diet and supplementing this with the juices to 'cover all bases' and fill the gaps left by a modern diet.

 

Fibre is good for your body in proportionate quantities, so saving the pulp to use in breads or other foods is a good way of retaining it's usefulness proportionate to what your body needs or can cope with.

 

To put it in layman's terms, how many people start the day eating 4 oranges or 5 apples as opposed to drinking a large glass of the juice?