Monday, September 16, 2013

Recipes For Fruits And Vegetable Juice

By Allison Clark


Not only does juicing give you the opportunity to have a healthier body but it also gives you the chance to be able to prepare various kinds of juices made up by mixing and matching a wide variety of fruits and vegetables. Being able to create a great fruit and vegetable juice recipe requires that you make experiments on what fruits and vegetables to combine. Once you are regularly doing your juicing your fruits and vegetables, you will eventually get used to it and realize that it is better to drink compared to drinking canned juices and soda.

The tool used for juicing is known as the juicer but it is important that we discuss first what's the difference between a juicer and a blender especially that there are people that mistakes a blender for a juicer. Unlike the blender, juicers are used in order to get the liquid part of a vegetable or fruit by squeezing it and separating it from its solid part like skin, pulp, stem, rind and other fibrous parts. When you use a juicer, the product that you will expect to get is a thin liquid which is the juice of either the vegetable of fruit. While the blender is used by placing the edible parts of either vegetables or fruits in order to produce a substance that usually has a consistency similar to slurry. The thickness of the blender's product is dependent on the amount of fruit or vegetable you mix in as well as the water content you decide to mix.

Before you decide on what kinds of fruits and vegetables to include in your juice recipe, you should first know what health benefit you are targeting to get from the juice that you are making in order for you to decide properly on what ingredients you will include in your own juice recipe. You should be aware that different kinds of fruits and vegetables can offer different kinds of health benefits. Aside from that, different fruits and vegetables also has varying water contents that is there may be fruits and vegetables that produce lots of juice while there are some that can only produce a little. The following is a list of important information that can aid you in making great juice recipes:

- Not all fruits and vegetables are the same. There are those fruits and vegetables that contains higher nutritional and health value compared to others and being able to know this information will help you to decide what fruits and vegetables you must include in your juice recipe.

-It is also advisable to include different fruits and vegetables that are in various colors. Colors of the fruits and vegetables usually indicate presence of different nutrients. Also try to imagine each fruit and vegetables' individual taste and try to imagine what combination of fruits and vegetables would go along together in relation to their taste. Being creative is important in juicing in order to produce great juice recipes.

-Chopping and slicing your fruits and vegetables prior to placing them in your juicer is recommended to facilitate faster and easier juicing.

-Large pits and seeds of fruits and vegetable may cause your juicer to be damaged, that is why it should be removed first.




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