I love green juice so much that I would marry it if I wasn’t already married. When I see families, especially children, drinking green juice, my heart melts on the floor, but when I see people drinking juice in a less than stellar way and making common mistakes, I get crazy concerned and want to help. That’s why I want to go over common juicing mistakes I have personally witnessed, so hopefully I can put my crazy concerned look to rest. It’s important to remember – we are all learning in this big bad world of processed foods, and juicing is better than not juicing at all, even if you make these mistakes.
TOP COMMON JUICING MISTAKES
Not Drinking Green Juice On An Empty Stomach – Recently a blogger friend of mine tried juicing for the first time, and when she finished her first juice she proclaimed to me that it gave her heart burn. Immediately, I asked her if she drank her juice on an empty stomach, and she said “No, I had it after breakfast.” Fresh juice should only be consumed on an empty stomach. The whole point of drinking juice is diminished if you don’t, and can end up giving you digestive issues like my friend experienced. Drinking juice on an empty stomach allows the vitamins and minerals in the juice to go straight to your bloodstream. Having fiber or a meal already in your stomach prevents your body from quickly absorbing the nutrients from the juice. A good general rule of thumb to follow is to wait at least 2 hours after a meal to drink a green juice and wait 20 mins after drinking a green juice to consume a meal.
Waiting Too Long To Drink Your Green Juice – As soon as your freshly made green juice gets exposed to air, its live enzymes begin to degrade, therefore decreasing the nutritional content. I can immediately tell the difference in how I feel after drinking fresh juice vs. an older juice. The live enzymes of a fresh juice give me immediate energy – where as older juice just doesn’t give me the same boost. For this reason, unless you have a slow masticating juicer, twin gear or Norwalk press juicer, I recommend always consuming the juice fresh and within 15 mins of making it. This is especially important if you make your juice without a juicer using a blender and strainer. For slow or twin-gear juicers, I recommend storing juice in an airtight container (filled to the top with no air gap) for up to 24-36 hours, and for a press juicer up to 72 hours. If you decide to store your juice, remember to keep it refrigerated at all times before consuming. This is also important to keep in mind when you buy pre-made, raw unpasteurized juice because as soon as the juice becomes warm, bacteria can begin to grow that could be harmful. Always keep your juice in the fridge or a cooler if traveling if you don’t drink it right away. If you notice your favorite juice bar keeping juices longer than 72 hours, make sure they are using high pressure pasteurization technology (like Suja Juice and Blueprint Cleanse) – otherwise, they are getting away with selling you lower quality and nutritionally degraded juice.
Using Too Many Sweet Fruits and Vegetables In Your Green Juice – Sweet fruits and vegetables like watermelon, apples, pears, and carrots are very nutritious when consumed whole, but if you consume too many of them juiced, the amount of sugar and fructose you are adding to your diet could be over the top. If a juice has too much natural sugar it can affect insulin levels pretty dramatically, causing cravings and other not so pretty things to happen, like gaining weight. This is why I recommend keeping the sugary fruits and vegetables in your green juice to a maximum of 1 per serving. For example, in the juice recipe below you can add one green apple for a bit of sweetness. It’s important to keep sugar in check to be able to sustain steady and consistent energy levels. I personally do not add any fruit to my daily green juice any longer, but I still love the occasional carrot (for their eye lash enhancing properties) and beet (for their detoxing capabilities). Exceptions to this rule are lemons and limes that are naturally very low in sugar and do not spike blood insulin levels like other fruits. (One caveat – if you are trying to get your children switched over to green juice, you can start by adding 2 fruits per serving, but then slowly decrease this over time as they become accustomed to the taste.)
Treating Green Juice Like A Meal (unless on a fast or having it as a snack) – Juice isn’t a meal replacement, rather it is a meal enhancer or snack. Juicing is nature’s vitamin pill and should be consumed like a supplement within 20 mins before a complete meal. It’s really hard to eat the amount of vegetables recommended by most experts (6-8 servings) in a typical day. It’s rare to see Americans eating vegetables for breakfast, and at lunch a typical vegetable serving could be as small as a piece of lettuce or tomato on a sandwich, making it probable that your target amount of vegetable servings for the day will not be met. It takes a few pounds of vegetables to get a 12-ounce glass of juice – which gives you an entire day’s serving in one glass. Juicing should be like taking a vitamin but of course it’s a billion times better. Additionally, drinking juice before a meal (like I recommend in the Meal Plans for Health Program) reduces carb and sweet cravings and completely changes your taste buds to want something plant-based versus something heavy or processed. Juicing allows you to absorb many more vitamins and minerals than you would otherwise by consuming smoothies or eating fruits and vegetables with the fiber. The only time I wouldn’t consume a meal after juicing would be during a juice fast.
Not Chewing Your Green Juice – Juice (and smoothies) are food and should be chewed. It’s important to swish around the juice in your mouth or move your jaw up and down for a couple of seconds before swallowing it to release saliva that contains important digestive enzymes. The digestive enzymes are crucial in delivering key nutrients to your cells. When I visited with Dr. Mercola for lunch, it was fun witnessing him doing this when he drank his green juice – he swished it back and forth quite energetically! I personally like to use less of an obvious gesture and keep the juice in my mouth a few seconds before swallowing it.
Leaving Your Juicer Dirty – I know juicing can take time and life can get busy, things like cleaning your juicer right away can get pushed to the side, but let me tell you, cleaning your juicer (at least rinsing it off) will save you and your knuckles a lot of scrubbing later. If I know time is going to be tight, I’ll often throw all the parts of the juicer in a sink and let them soak with water and a little soap – that way, when I get back to cleaning the juicer, it will be much easier. Also, to save time when I juice in the morning, I’ll pre-wash the vegetables the night before, eliminating this step the next day, and allowing me more time to clean the juicer right away. I’ve gotten my juicing routine down to 20 mins using a 2 step press juicer, which is pretty darn good if you ask me! When I use a centrifuge or another type of juicer, my timing is usually around 15 mins from start to cleanup.
Juicing Spinach or Kale Over and Over Again – Variety is the spice of life, and it’s key for juicing correctly and safely and to avoid hormonal issues. Remember to rotate the greens (kale, chard, spinach, mustard greens, collards, dandelion, arugula, etc.) in your juice each week to prevent build up of oxalic acid (which can affect the thyroid gland) and provide a balanced amount of different vitamins and minerals for your body.
You Stopped Green Juicing Because You Heard That Drinking Smoothies Is Better (or maybe you never started) – For the record, I consume both smoothies and juices, but I also know there is no other way to get the extraordinarily amount of powerful nutrients trapped inside green vegetables than to juice them. Drinking juice has the power to make you feel like you have never before – it’s quite magical and something I wouldn’t give up for every smoothie in the world. Our soil is nutritionally depleted due to the use of pesticides, genetically modified seeds, and conventional farming practices, drastically reducing the amount of many vitamins and minerals once abundantly available to us. Eating a piece of broccoli now vs. 20 years ago does not yield the same amount of nutrition. It’s crucial that we try to compensate for this fact by juicing. Juicing allows you to get the extra boost you need much more efficiently than trying to chew an unachievable amount of vegetables all day. When I started drinking carrot juice, my eye lashes immediately started to grow longer within just a couple of weeks. Feeling the extra energy boost is one thing, but seeing the results in the mirror can be quite dramatic and make you a firm believer of the powers of drinking juice. Drinking juice reduces the amount of energy your body uses for digestion, giving your cells a chance to repair and rebuild. It’s the ultimate preventative medicine when it comes to avoiding disease. Don’t wait until you are already sick or trying to get better to consume juice, it’s about creating a healthy body from within now so you never get sick in the first place.
With all this juicing talk… I have to share my most recent concoction which includes both lemon and lime. This juice is so tart and delicious and perfect for a hot Summer evening!
- 1 bunch of any green of your choice (collards, chard, spinach, kale, dandelion)
- 2 cucumbers
- ½ bunch herbs like parsley, cilantro or mint
- 1 lemon with peel removed
- 1 lime with peel removed
- 1 green apple (optional for added sweetness)
- Wash all vegetables thoroughly and place into a large bowl
- Juice each vegetable in this order – greens, herbs, lemon, lime, cucumber
- Stir mixture before serving
- Rinse and clean juicer immediately
Do you know someone who might be making these common juicing mistakes? Then please share this post with them. I want everyone to feel the ALL of the magic of the juice they are drinking!
Cheers,
Food Babe
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Hello Everyone!
My mother and I are embarking on a 2 week juice fast starting today!
If you want to give us some support or see how our juice fast goes come check us out on my blog threepointnutrition.com.
Our motivations are the following:
I would like to clear my skin, increase energy, and cleanse my liver after years of medication.
My mother would like to get off cholesterol medication, improve her decreased kidney function, and reduce pain and inflammation from osteoarthritis.
Good luck! I ordered a “Nutribullet” that arrived today and plan on doing the same. Let us know how you are doing!
Gina, I also have a Nutribullet and love it, but unless they make a juicer also it is NOT a juicer, it does smoothies which is different then juicing. 🙂 Juicing is much better but is nice to do a smoothie once in awhile .
We bought a juice bullet and love it. Also we take the pulp dry it out then blend it into flour. Typically when we make straight carrot juice.
The Omega J8006 is a great juicer. I bought it and I’m extremely happy with it. Easy cleaning and it doesn’t get hot which can kill many not the nutrients in your fruits and vegetables. I was making at least 5 mistakes when juicing. Thanks for this wonderful information.
I learned to juice here: http://47bf29x8wz2fkez9pmn6xlgl4e.hop.clickbank.net/
They have great recipes. Love you Food Babe! 😀
I saw the video Fat Sick and Nearly Dead. ( http://www.rebootwithjoe.com/Rebooting/ ) on jucing followed by a doctor blood test every month and his thyroid had NO issue. Nor did the others that did the jucing. They all had blood test monthly. Why are you saying not to eat kale?
You may have misunderstood what she said. She didn’t say “don’t” eat kale. She said to rotate your green veggies.
True. Misread it. Sorry just one if them days.
I am starting juicing in a week. Need to cut all milk, meat etc for a week before starting. Not a big meat thank god.
Oxalic acid in kale will not cause you problems! You would have to eat an abnormal amount, I’m talking pounds of it every day! Eat as much as you like folks! Your body knows exactly how to handle that pesky oxalic acid!!
Why don’t you just eat your vegetables?
Duh! Why eat them when you can drink them? Common sense brutha-
Because you need the fiber that comes from eating them.
There is not enough time in the day to eat all of the vegetables your body needs for nutrition and health. It’s faster to juice them. Try it, you might like it.
If you don’t have time to eat proper food, you need to reconsider how you spend your time.
Pulverizing fruits and veggies into juice destroys all the good stuff they offer your body, like fiber. Also, if you pulverize fruits, you end up with all the sugar and none of the stuff that balances it out. Not good, unless you’re trying to give yourself diabetes.
I used to ask the same thing. The truth is, it’s all preference. The facts are, the stomach works less to break down the juice than it would if you had to chew it, that extra energy can be allocated to other tasks. The nutrients in the juice are easily processed by the intestines.
You can juice a ton of veggies to make a glass of juice that would take you days to eat that much as a whole. Gives you tons of vitamins, nutrients and your body doesn’t even have to work breaking it down. Goes straight to the bloodstream to start nourishing your body.
Jason, the nutrients and enzymes in vegetables are contained in a tough cellulose wall and our bodies do not have the capacity to actually breakdown and digest cellulose, even with chewing, we only break a small part of this cell wall, which means we’re actually only receiving a small amount of the nutrients and enzymes. Juicing completely breaks down the cellulose, ensuring maximum benefit from the nutrients and enzymes.
Jason, are you nucking futz? Do your research..but why would you? It’s pretty clear you are a troll using the internet to make yourself feel good.
What’s the best way to sub a blender in for a juicer?
For all who want to make juice in a BLENDER. I’ll tell you how. I do it all the time and enjoy the fabulous benefits of juicing without the hassle of extra machinery.
I have a vitamix. Any high power blender will do.
All you need is:
1: Blender
2. Nylon Nut Milk Bag
3. Half gallon Mason jar or very large glass container to squeeze your juice into.
Take your veggies and ADD SOME CLEAN WATER to the blender. about 1- 2 cups or more to your liking depending on how much veggie you are using.
Blend.
put nut milk bag into container. pour contents into nut milk bag.
SQUEEEZE!
BOOM! Green juice. Enjoy!!!
Why do you squeeze out the pulp? Why not drink that, too? The VitaMix does a great job of breaking it all down.
I’m waiting for a juicer, so in the mean time I blend and strain. But if I want to use a nut-bag, I’d have to order that too and wait for it. So I improvised. Trust me, a out-of-the-package stocking works just as well. I squeeze it in a potato ricer to get every bit of juice out. And another thing, I don’t need “a few pounds” of vegetables to make 12 oz of juice.
What about freezing fresh juice if you need to make it in advance?
There’s no substitute for fresh as far as getting max benefits, but frozen is an option. I did a 12 day juice fast during which I filled some ice trays with various juices I made. I ran the cubes through my masticating juicer, it made a great frozen treat. Also added some red cubes to green juice, green cubes to red juice, just to mix things up.
Hello i would like to start juicing but dont know which type of juicerto get there are so many out there please help!!!???
NutriBullet is the way to go! I have the 900 and it works great!! Everything is juiced in under a minute and clean up is simple!
Maybe I’m mistaken does the Nurtibullet now make a juicer? I have the bigger Nurtibullet but it is not a juicer it does smoothies. I love it but would rather Juice am looking to replace my juicer it’s pretty old so if the Nurtibullet now makes a juicer I would love to get one….
Nutri-bullet 900 is better that a juicer. You don’t lose any of the good stuff.
Is a Vitamix similiar to a Nutri-bullet? I’ve been using the Vitamix for several years…I turn it on high add a little water; wouldn’t that be similar to juicing?
The Hamilton Beach Big Mouth Juicer is wonderful!, under $40 cleans up in less than 5 minutes. We have been juicing for 3 yrs now and bought a more expenisve unit because we were burning through the ”
Big Mouth’ but returned to it after visiting my daughter and using her Big Mouth (I’ve bought them all one) because it’s just so easy.
Nutribullet and Vitamix are blenders, not juicers. Still good for you, but it’s not juicing. Juicing takes out the fiber, your body doesn’t have to work at all to digest it, and nutrients go straight to the bloodstream to benefit you.
hi I just purchased the Jack LaLannes power juicer delux I love it ! well worth the money
kathy how do you get the green leafy veg to juice, I have
the Jack Lalannes power juicer but today with my spinach I ddn’t get much juice out of it more ended up in the pulp throw away.. Am I doing something wrong?
Not all juicers are created equal. Although Jack LaLanne’s is a great intro juicer, it’s a centrifugal juicer, which spinning technology does not extract the juice out of green leafy vegetables like a masticating (and more expensive) juicer will.
That was to Storm, not Kathy, sorry.
Sorry Kathy, that comment was for Storm. 🙂
The omega 8004, a masticating juicer, works well for me. It doesn’t oxygenate the juice much because it spins slow so the juice lasts longer, though I still try and drink it within 36 hours. I juice with it often, but also make peanut and almond butter. I freeze juice and fruits in ice cube trays and run them through it, it makes an ice cream like treat. Long warranty and great reviews decided this be the juicer for me, I highly recommend it.
I too have the Omega 8004 and love it. It does a great job of getting ALL the juice out of a veggie, and it’s very easy to clean afterwards. I use it every other day and love the way I feel from drinking fresh juice. I quite often make it by using greens of some kind, a carrot, half a lemon, half a green apple, celery, cucumber, and a small piece of fresh ginger (which really adds a lot of flavor).
Linda,
Each juicer has advantages/disadvantage. First, Centrifuge juicers oxidize the juice too much (like a bitten apple) and cold presses are over-the-top expensive for someone just starting juicing (Norwalk = $2400). Go with a masticating juicer($200-$500)
I’ve been using the Omega J8004 for the past 4 years and love it. the J8003-J8006 are the same thing with a few differences. The chute is smaller than you will find on a centrifuge juicer which means you will need to do a bit more chopping when prepping your veggies but the time goes by quick.
If you’re looking to mostly do orange juice or other ‘fleshy’ fruits then you’ll want to look elsewhere (perhaps the Omega VRT) – but if you will just be putting an orange or 2 in with your leafy greens, carrots, beets, etc…it’s a workhorse. Just alternate your fruits/veggies (fleshy, hard, soft, fleshy, hard, soft) and you won’t run into any clogging issues.
I realise this advice is a bit late – but I hope this helps you – or someone that is looking into juicing.
Food Babe is pretty hot.
Just wanted to say that I always drink my juice immediately, never let it sit.
Good article.
I love the NutraBullet, I like the idea of using all the fruit and veggies in the juice. With a juicer, a lot is excreted, a lot of nutrition.
I am so impressed with your recipe, I gave it to my son to try and he loved it, now finally he is getting the greens I have tried so hard to incorporate into his diet. I had to hide one or 2 leaves in fruit juices, but now, he does not even want to drink the fruit juices. Thanks, that was really great advice
Everyone makes mistakes when they start out juicing and its mostly due to bad information in the marketplace. You need to know what to mix and you need to know what machines will work for what.
We have a guide on our website as well as some tasty health conscious recipes for anyone interested I would invite you to check it out!
Great blog btw. Subbed.
I finally got around to trying the green juice recipe and had it on an empty stomach the last two days, and I am just thrilled with the immediacy of the energy boost I got from it! Thanks, Food Babe!
Food babe, are you on youtube as well? Where can I find more recipes?
My daughter is studying nutrition, she has told me that in order to maximize absorption of the nutrients you need to consume fat at the same time. What is your thought on that one?
This true. I would add cream or coconut oil…
I add in some hemp oil 🙂
The recipe above calls for “1 bunch of any greens” and “1/2 bunch of herbs.
My question is: what constitutes “a bunch?”
I was wondering the same thing.
A “bunch” is how they’re sold when they don’t come in a bag. You’ve seen a bunch of Spinach wrapped up with a twist-tie, right? That’s a bunch. The herbs are a smaller bunch. 😉
Just have come on your website for the first time.i would love some recipies For digestion and detox. Thanks Connie
Love your recipe! This article is very good. Juicing properly along with a healthy diet is a great way to heal the body. I love to drink a juice recipe of beets, spinach, carrots, and lemon; for high blood pressure every week. I don’t have high blood pressure so use this is a preventative measure for me.
Love your site! I have a question about wheat grass. I read that one ounce of wheat grass is equivalent to 2.5 pounds of vegetables with 108 vitamins along with a huge list of health benefits. Do you think my one ‘shot’ of wheat grass in the morning and one glass of organic raw carrot juice at lunch is the same as your green juice in terms of vitamins and minerals?
What is the best juicing fast/cleanse to do? I just tried my juicer out (carrot and apple juice) and I love it! I really would like to try a cleanse though. Any suggestions?
Love this juices. I will drink this immediately.
For stomach problems I started juicing , organic carrots,celery,beats. I juice this combination at least 2 -3 times a week for almost 1 year ..My stomach cured, but my skin turn yellow and my liver enzymes came high last month, it could be the juice???????. I stopped it inmediatley……we will see on the next blood test….. Someone with similar experiencie?.
For all who want to make juice in a BLENDER. I’ll tell you how. I do it all the time and enjoy the fabulous benefits of juicing without the hassle of extra machinery.
I have a vitamix. Any high power blender will do.
All you need is:
1: Blender
2. Nylon Nut Milk Bag
3. Half gallon Mason jar or very large glass container to squeeze your juice into.
Take your veggies and ADD SOME CLEAN WATER to the blender. about 1- 2 cups or more to your liking depending on how much veggie you are using.
Blend.
put nut milk bag into container. pour contents into nut milk bag.
SQUEEEZE!
BOOM! Green juice. Enjoy!!!
Juice should only consume after taking a meal.
Look up Food Combination. If you eat a meal of carbs or meat, your body is working hard to digest that. It takes a body typically 8 hours to digest one serving of carbs or one serving of meat. If you drink juice after a meal, that juice will be sitting and fermenting while your body is processing your meal, thus causing heart burn, acid reflux, or severe gassy discomfort.
Hi!! I have a question!! I have been trying to juice greens like spinach, kale, parsley, etc, but it just won’t juice!! I think maybe it’s the type of juicer I’m using? I have a Jack Lalaine one. Please give me a link to a juicer that juices greens extremely well, keeping in mind that I’m a poor college student 🙂 Thank you so much!!
The omega 8004, a masticating juicer, works well on the leafy stuff, kale and spinach but also does great on everything else I’ve juiced. It doesn’t oxygenate the juice much because it spins slow so the juice lasts longer, though I still try and drink it within 36 hours. I juice with it often, but also make peanut and almond butter. I freeze juice and fruits in ice cube trays and run them through it, it makes an ice cream like treat. Long warranty and great reviews decided this be the juicer for me, I highly recommend it.
One of the points of the posts indicated that one may have stopped juicing “Because You Heard That Drinking Smoothies Is Better”, but then fails to expand on the difference between juicing and smoothie. The lead-in sentence gave the impression that some of the differences (pros & cons) would be discussed, but only discusses juicing. The article continues and states, “there is no other way to get the extraordinarily amount of powerful nutrients trapped inside green vegetables than to juice them.”
This statement is completely unsupported and non-substantiated as well as misleading. It is poor journalism not to offer an alternative representative view supporting the point being illustrated, much less present the other side.
One person in this thread suggest using his Vitamix with a strainer to get the ‘juice’! Why would you do this???
The truth of the matter is that juicing does not give you 100% of the nutrients. The bulk of the nutrients are in the cell walls, part of the skin of the vegetable or fruit. This is common knowledge, and juicing only discards this part. Perhaps that is why those juicing have to juice so much to make up the difference?
This debate is nothing new. I’m an avid fan of Dr. Fuhrman (as well as FoodBabe!), and Dr. Fuhrman strongly supports blending over juicing. For additional information on both juicing and blending, see his article:
http://drfuhrman.master.com/texis/master/redir/?u=http%3A//www.drfuhrman.com/library/better_for_health.aspx
Thanks 🙂
I don’t understand why people need to choose one or the other. I have a masticating juicer as well as a Vitamix. They are my favorite kitchen items, hands down. I blend fruits, nuts, avocados, seeds, powders, etc.- the things that can’t be juiced and/or should be consumed with the plant fibers so as to be absorbed more slowly and not cause a spike in blood sugar. However, I am also an avid juicer and believe that certain things are better juiced. I keep my juices vegetable- and greens-based, with just enough fruit to make it palatable, and I think juicing is a fantastic way to get raw, fresh produce into the bloodstream. Juicing and blending are separate things, and they each have their benefits and limitations. I’m certainly not going to wake up and want to drink a smoothie full of fibrous collard and kale leaves, celery, carrots, beets, fennel, etc. Do I add some of these things to my smoothies? Sure. I’ll throw in a cucumber and a piece or two of celery. But sometimes it’s ok or even better to leave out the fiber and allow your body to immediately absorb a huge amount of produce that you can with juicing.
Favorite juicing recipe as of late:
grapefruit, fennel, lemon, chayote squash, pear, greens of choice, cucumber, and celery
Favorite smoothie recipe as of late:
cucumber, celery, apple, medjool date, ginger, lime juice, avocado, coconut water, ice cubes, greens of choice
Hi, do you have juice and smoothies simultaneously? I have been trying to start a juice fast, but I also want to incorporate smoothies.
Hi, thank you for all the great tips!
I’ve been juicing for a few months now and normally I like to prepare (wash, peel, and cut) fruits and veggies the night before to save time in the morning. Normally, I would store the prepared veggies/fruits in the fridge for about 18hours before juicing them.
I’ve heard that veggies and fruits start to lose nutrients as soon as we cut them. Is this true? If so, what’s the damage ? Thanks!
Thank you for your time and response.
I’m new to juicing and I’ve been juicing a variety of vegetables and fruits, yet I’m adding protein which is flavored. Am I defeating the purposes of juicing?
Great tip on drinking the juice on an empty stomach. I often forget to tell my clients this, but it does make a difference.
Hi I’m doing a juice diet I’m riding it hard so I’m having a healthy meal at night and some nuts during the day will this still make me lose weight
Hi Vani!
I recently discovered you via the Food Summit. As a long time natural foods nut, I’m familiar with a lot of your points, but I have to say I am SO IMPRESSED with how much I am learning from you, with every article. I am now a fan, and I am so grateful for your work in the world! I love your attitude, and am wowed by all you are inspiring in others, not to mention your pressure on food chains! You inspire me in many ways!
Great article here. I have two questions about juicing for you:
1) Does fiber actually interfere with the absorption of the nutrients?? (i.e.., if using a Vitamix instead of a juicer). Can you tell me more about this? I get it that you can consume MORE when the fiber is removed, just because it’s less filling, so you get more nutrients. Is that the main point, or is there something about eating too much fiber that I’m missing?
2) I had a masticating juicer but finally sold it for a regular centrifugal type, because, at least the one I had, was leaving a lot of moist pulp (it might have been a bit broken?), and it took so much longer. But anyway, neither seems very good at the greens. What type of juicer do you recommend for getting the most juice out of greens? You have some kind of 2 -stage one? With veggies being costly these days, I am interested to get the most juice out of each one!
Thanks so much, and please keep up this awesome, world changing work!
Amy Sundari Finlay
Love your effort… You awesomely ROCK 🙂
Regards
Janamian
http://vitalityforbetterliving.com/
This article is great, thank you. I’ve just started juicing today and I’ve made some of these mistakes already! never heard of “chewing” green juice. Interesting but makes sense
Another thing to note is that according to the Ayurvedic perspective, one must not consume juice for dinner. Juice in the afternoon (when the Sun is still high up and the digestive fire is strong) is the best…
HI.Im new to juicing.Ive been doing smothies for a week only and i can already feel my skin softer.i wI onli juice a tipical blender, But i want to get the best of my veggies.which is best smoothies or juicing?.And if juicing, whats the best juicer? Afordable, and easy to clean ?.thank so much in advance.!!!
Also, growing your own vegetables using the high brix method vastly improves nutrition.
What type of juicer do you recommend? I’ve been told that a press is better than a centrifuge because the centrifuge heat kills the nutrients.
Hi,
Great article, always good to see the right information being pushed out. Also important to note that the slow juicers extract more nutritional value than a fast juicer, in fact a slow juicer over a fast juicer will extract 42% more vitamin C, 60% more Vitamin A and the quantity can by between 35% and 50% more juice extracted.
Isn’t there a bit of contradiction between points 1 and 4? Point 1 says ‘wait 20 mins AFTER drinking a green juice to consume a meal’ since juice should be had on an empty stomach to ensure the nutrients are optimally absorbed point 4 which says ‘it should be consumed like a supplement WITHIN 20 mins before a complete meal’. Which is ideal?
I love juicing and I had a champion juicer and I would do it everyday but my husband went and bought a Norwalk juicer and yes the juice taste better it is very smooth and doesn’t separate as fast. I used the Norwalk for a while but stopped because it is very time consuming and tedious! I went back to using my champion it might not be as high a quality but it is better than nothing!!!
Thank goodness this recipe doesn’t contain celery. I can’t wait to try it!
Can you juice more than once a day.
I have a kitchen herb garden that includes the usual culprits: parsley, sage, rosemary, thyme, oregano, basil, and cilantro. I am getting ready to embark on a juicing journey. Other than for taste, are there any nutritional benefits to including these herbs in a juicing regimen? Are there any I should not include even for taste purposes?
This is very helpful in terms of doing a fast breakfast.
Why do you remove the peel from the lemon and limes? I always heard there was tons of nutrients in the peel.
too bitter, I’m guessing- most of the acidity is in the rind of citrus fruits
I don’t understand why juicing is better than blending- someone please explain. Why is squeezing the juice out of the vegetables nutritionally better than throwing them into the blender and drinking it, pulp and all?
I love juicing and it’s a way of getting nutrients that my poor digestive system can use to instantly absorb energy and nutrients. I’m just wonder…why, in the recipe above, is it important to do the juicing in a particular order? Is it just for practicality and ease of clean up? Thanks 🙂
My husband and I have started drinking the green juice since one month. I add all the ingredients mentioned in this post. I add celery as an additional ingredient. So I wanted to know is it good to include celery in the green juice and having it on an empty stomach?
OK so my boyfriend and I just started this yesterday. We made enough juice for dinner and breakfast (which are about 12 hrs apart). A friend said not to drink last night’s juice, but it was stored in an airtight dark container. Is it still OK? It still tasted fresh enough to me. We’re on a time crunch in the morning (plus the loud juicer would wake the whole house and his little nieces and nephew sleep over a lot) so it ONLY makes sense for us to make breakfast before we go to bed. Its fine as long as its sealed good right? 8-12 hours isn’t going to make it unfit for consumption is it?
First of all there are a few small mistakes in this article as is; unless I misread…For example, juice can indeed be a good meal replacement IF you use the right fruits AND vegetables PLUS think about adding some nuts and grains like quinoa, almonds, walnuts, etc… also if you use an almond milk instead of regular milk, or you could use a lowfat yogurt and that would take care of the dairy need… one of my favorite combinations is a half handful of spinach, a small banana (for the potasium), a small amount of frozen berries, a small apple, (cored but peal on), a small clementine, and about three wedges of frozen peaches…and a dairy treat would be a 1/4 cup of yogurt…I just started less than a week ago…replaced two meals with my juices, and I’ve lost four pounds so far… I am happy with my progress, and I have a problem with gird I have had for a long time, yet this does not kick it up at all…in fact I tend to feel much better…less acid, more energy…etc…
Oh and you do indeed get MORE of the fiber and nutrients if you juice verses some cooking methods because as a juice you get better absorbtion… Latest studies show this…