If you aspire to living a healthy life, maybe you already know all about the health benefits of drinking fresh fruit and vegetable juices. Juice contains all the goodness of the fresh ingredients, without the effort of having to chew through pounds of carrot sticks – plus you can bottle it and enjoy it all through the day, at work, or even while you are commuting. imagine that – while everyone else on the subway is eating salty chips and waiting to get home, you can already have had the equivalent of 8 or more serves of raw vegetables!
Fruit and vegetable juicers have not changed that much really over the past 10 years, but there have been some significant trends in the industry. The biggest of these is the growing demand for masticating juicers, or juicers that work by slowly crushing fruits and vegetables rather than shredding them up like the normal old fashioned juicers do. masticating actually means chewing, so this is basically how the machines work – they use a slowly turning auger, or system of gears to crush the liquid out of your ingredients.
There are some distinct advantages to this – you get less froth on the juice, which means less air is being mixed in. This is important because contact with oxygen in air causes the quality of juice to deteriorate, losing much of its vitamin and enzyme content. Secondly, there is never any heat generated by the slow mechanism – again, avoiding lowering vitamin and enzyme content.
Masticating vegetable juicers do have the down side of being a bit slower than centrifugal juicers. The difference is not usually very large, in the order of about an extra 20-30 seconds per glass of juice.
However, the big advantage of masticating juicers is that they can process harder, tougher ingredients because they work slower. Amongst other things this means they can juice wheat grass, something centrifugal juicers cannot do at all. On the whole, if you want versatility, you would be well advised to choose a masticating fruit and vegetable juicer.
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