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Juicing For Wheatgrass
Plan on using a juicer for wheatgrass? Well there are a few things you need to know before you can start churning through your wheatgrass produce to make loads of fresh healthy juice. But wait, if you aren’t sure as to why you should be juicing wheatgrass in the first place, here is some interesting facts about this grass. Wheatgrass is a variety of grass that can be grown in your yard, and is also available for sale in food stores. It’s rich in plenty of vitamins and minerals, high in fiber content and chlorophyll. Scientists now have proven that wheatgrass can boost cell reproduction; lead to regeneration of damaged tissues and detoxify the body. Juicing Wheatgrass Let’s get started with juicing wheatgrass. The first thing to note down is never do this in a processor or a blender. This is because rapid movements oxidize chlorophyll and cause the wheatgrass to lose ...
What To Do With Juicing Pulp
Different juicers leave behind different quantity of pulp with a varying degree of dryness. But one fact remains that if you are an avid juicer, you will eventually end up with a log pulp. Well, one way is to throw them out but then you are not being economical by doing so. Thankfully, there are plenty of ways in which you can make use of juicing pulp. In fact, there are a few specific pulp based recipes and some general everyday ideas too. What To Do With All The Extra Pulp? What Does The Pulp Contain The pulp is everything other than vitamins, minerals and direct nutrition. It’s rich in fiber and basically heavy nutrition that the body takes hours to digest. The good news is that fiber is necessary for the body too and so pulp automatically becomes a nutritious and moisturizing way to add fiber to the body. You can save pulp for over 12 hours in the ...
Juicing Health Benefits
We all eat fruits, salads, green veggies and even meat on a regular basis but did you know that majority of what you ingest is never available for use? It is because nutrients are released from food cells only when they are ruptured. This is where our teeth and jaw come into action. Mastication helps break down food and release nutrients. Unfortunately, what we eat usually goes through our digestive system without much change and is excreted with hardly any absorption of nutrients. With a juicer, you can overcome this problem as a juicer tends to destroy cells in fruits and vegetables, releasing everything into a liquid medium, which is easier to digest. It does something that your teeth and jaw together can never achieve – complete mastication. Because of this, nutrients that were previously not available to your body now become part of your daily diet. In a ...
Juicing For Kids
Fact is kids don’t like vegetables and fruits at all. It’s because we parents make it impossible to skip these things that they tend to eat a little. But did you know that juicing is an excellent way to provide nutrition to a child’s growing requirements? In fact, most kids actually love juice more than the real thing. If you make them with the right ingredients, they actually taste awesome. Juicing for Kids? YES! In fewer quantities, juice is actually just as beneficial to kids as it is to adults. Unfortunately, many parents are concerned about the lack of nutrition that juices provide to kids but they don’t realize the harm they are doing by feeding junk stuff to them. This is absurd since fresh juice is actually the best thing for a human body, regardless of whether it is growing or not. A juice diet incorporated into a normal healthy diet actually helps in ...
Juicing Is Better Than Blending And Food Processing – Why Juicing Wins Hands Down
Three glasses of greens and fruits juiced together, one made from a juicer, another from a blender and the last from a food processor. Can you tell the difference between them? 8 out of 10 times, you will be able to guess the one made from a juicer but trying to distinguish between juice from a food processor and blender will be mighty hard. This is because both produce juice in a similar manner – shredding, dicing and mincing ingredients to infinity. On the other hand a juicer is designed to squeeze juice from the pulp and so is much clearer, vibrant in color and thinner. Well, you could say that a juicer will extract the juice from whatever you put in it and reject the pulp or rind away thus giving you direct access to antioxidants, minerals, vitamins that your body can use immediately. On the other hand a blender will blend, emulsify ingredients, which will ...
Gerson Therapy Juicing FAQs – Reclaim You Health And Body
I came across an article that suggested Gerson Therapy, which involves juicing to be a possible method to prevent cancer. Personally, I love juicing but it isn’t something I would tout as being able to combat cancer. Nevertheless, here is an excerpt of the article I had stored in my database. Happy Reading!!! Gerson Therapy FAQs - Juicing Guide Cancer is one of the most dreaded diseases that we as humans can be subjected to or become ill thereof. Many of us are scared of the very mention of the name cancer, while many others live in the bubble “it would never happen to us”. Cancer over the years has been a subject matter of study for many researches and development of treatments and medicines, and many people have recommended methods of treatments. The cure for cancer is not anywhere near but what is important is that it is diagnosed in time and once the patient is ...
Did You Know These Things About Juicing?
Obesity induced by stress, diabetes due to improper diet control, cholesterol issues and much more owe their dues to our strange eating habits and reliance on everything chemical to grown and manufacture food in large quantities. The need of the hour is a stress free diet that can combat all these problems effectively. I truly believe juicing is the answer to all our worries. So what is this term juicing? We all know that vegetables supply us the required nutrients to keep fit and lead a healthy lifestyle. Juicing is just one way of extracting valuable nutrients and vitamins from vegetables and fruits in a form that is easy to ingest and digest. Hera are a few things about juicing that you ought to know and probably aren’t aware of. Did You Know These Juicing Facts? Juicing Is Very Safe Don’t eat veggies that much? Not to worry juicing makes it easier for you ...
Choose The Right Juicer For Yourself: Manual Against Automatic
A juicer is no longer optional or luxurious household equipment. It has become an essentially and almost every kitchen has a juicer these days. With people becoming health freaks and depending on low calorie diet for better fitness, different fruit or vegetable juices have become a part of changing lifestyle. Plus, for children, who are fussy about food, juices become a refreshing and good source of vitamins and minerals. Buying a juicer is an investment for the household and it becomes pointless if you do not get 100% satisfaction. To begin with, the initial dilemma that a prospective buyer faces is whether to choose a manual or an automatic juicer. It is common notion that anything automatic is obviously better and more productive. But this is not always the case. Hence, whether an automatic juicer or a manual one would be better depends on the user itself. As per ...
Stay Healthy a With Wheatgrass Juicer
Are you making every possible effort to stay healthy and fit – From regular exercises to proper diet to various modes of healthy lifestyle? In that case, you might want to, or more aptly, you should add one more element to this regime – The Wheatgrass Juicer. One may not always find the time to cook healthy food, which is why losing out on a lot of necessary nutrients becomes a big likelihood. Hence, the healthier and easier option is to go for a wheatgrass juicer. One shot of wheatgrass juice is equal to the nutritional value of about eight to nine portions of vegetables. Wheatgrass is prepared from common wheat plant and is much healthier than wheat malt. It is available in powder form, ready-to-drink juices or even in the form of tablets. But the benefit and health value of fresh juice is obviously incomparable. If you make the juice yourself, you at least have ...
Understanding The Concept Of Citrus Juicers
One glass of refreshing juice is enough to kick start your day sending energy drive to your mind and body. If the process of extracting juice is equally vitalizing then it surely becomes an enhanced juicing experience. While a lot of people, without any specific preference, are regular juice drinkers simply to remain fit and healthy, many others prefer only citrus fruits like tangerines, lemon, oranges, etc. for loaded flavors. In that case, a citrus juicer is what the latter needs. Citrus Juicers - What and Why... Undoubtedly, the first question that will pop in the head is why one needs an exclusive juicer for citrus fruits. Well, here’s why – All citrus fruits, whether lime, pummelo, grapefruit, clementine, tangerine or oranges are thick skinned on the outside, seedy and extremely fibrous inside. Extracting maximum juice out of such fruits isn’t all that ...
