Carrot Juice!?

!±8± Carrot Juice!?

Raw juices contain the right combinations of nutrients, in the right proportions, for optimum absorption into the body. Other than tomato juice, most people think only of fruit when selecting a juice. But for variety and the chance to explore new flavors, vegetable juices are worth looking into. Any vegetable can be juiced, but by far the king of all vegetable juices is carrot juice. It is the first one listed in many home juicing books, and by virtue of its taste and nutritional content, is the most common ingredient in juice combinations, But drinking it goes beyond merely being 'good for you'. After one try, you may find yourself drinking it for the taste.

Carrot juice has a surprisingly sweet and light taste, with a perfect mix of minerals that magically makes it seem lighter than water. It also tastes great when mixed with other drinks. My favorites include adding it half-and-half to either orange juice or milk. But as with many vegetable juices, due to their low sugar and acid content, carrot juice is highly perishable. Since the flavor deteriorates quickly, the juice needs to be fresh. REALLY fresh. 'TEN MINUTES AGO IT USED TO BE A CARROT' fresh. You can't buy it packaged, as the flavor won't survive overnight, and don't even think about getting it in a can.

Home Juicing

Not long ago, the only way to get fresh carrot juice was to buy a home juicer and make it yourself, but now with Jamba Juice and many other smoothie shops around, fresh carrot juice is widely available-so there is no excuse for not trying it! Of course to save money and gain full control over where and when to purchase and juice produce, you may still benefit from purchasing a home juicer, of which three main designs are available.

1. The most inexpensive types combine a grinder with a centrifugal basket to spin out most of the juice. These normally don't do a very good job (judging by the high moisture content of the resulting pulp), plus they are the most difficult to clean. Since the pulp collects in a basket, you need to continually stop, disassemble the remove the pulp, reassembly, and continue.

2. Next would be a juicer similar to the one manufactured by Champion, which looks and works similar to a meat grinder. These are easier to use and clean, as the pulp is continually expressed from one opening while the juice is squeezed out another, so you don't need to stop until you are done. The resulting pulp is much drier, indicating a higher yield of juice.

3. At the top of the price list would be the Norwalk juicing system, the Cadillac of home juicers. With its powerful motor and hydraulic press, it extracts most of the juice, leaving a pulp that has been described as fine and powder dry.

But no matter how you get it, you should consider giving carrot juice a try - you owe it to your taste buds.

Carrot Juice!?

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How Do Juicers Help Us Absorb More Nutrients From Our Food?

!±8± How Do Juicers Help Us Absorb More Nutrients From Our Food?

If you have read about juicers you might have heard how they can help us absorb and digest our food so we get more nutrients. Have you ever stopped to think about how this actually works? I mean how does a machine that crushes and squeezes our food make it easier for us to digest it?

To start, let's go back to a bit of biology here. Don't worry this won't be a boring lesson like in school. It will apply some simple knowledge about our bodies so we can see how juicers work.

Like us, plants are made up of thousands of tiny cells. Inside these cells are the nutrients we need like water, protein, carbohydrates, and vitamins. When we eat a vegetable we are using several processes, both mechanical and chemical, to break down these cells and extract the nutrients. The mechanical processes crush the cells and rupture the cell walls, like biting into a grape. The chemical processes dissolve the cells and release the nutrients, like how bleach can eat through cloth. Once the nutrients are separated from the cells our bodies are able to absorb them in our digestive system. The more efficiently these processes extract the nutrients, the more nutrients our body will be able to absorb.

One of the most powerful mechanical processes is done in our mouth when we chew. Our teeth and jaws combines to exert a crushing and grinding force that breaks apart our food. This separates the cells in the plant into smaller groups and will actually break open a few cells in our mouth. If you ever bit into a ripe apple and spilled juice on your shirt, this is because you broke apart some of the apple's cells and they spilled out of our mouth.

Now that we know that our mouth is grinding and crushing our food, lets apply that to juicers. Juicers are a machine that uses a mechanical process (like our mouths) to process whole food by slicing it with tiny blades, crushing it between gears, and squeezing it through tiny screens. At the end of this process the juice pours out of one section of the juicer and the rest of the food is released into another section (called the pulp). This mechanical process is almost identical to what happens in our mouth but it all happens without us putting in the work. You can think of juicers as a second mouth, one that pre-chews the food for you.

How Do Juicers Help Us Absorb More Nutrients From Our Food?

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