There are several advantages to eating fruit and vegetables uncooked. Are juicing fruits using your own juicer healthier or not?
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Juicers and Juicing: More healthy or not?
Water-soluble vitamins (such as vitamin C) are degraded by cooking,
therefore there will be less vitamin C in a cooked carrot than in an equivalent
fresh carrot.
But for some nutrients, cooking and juicing is more healthy, because it
makes the nutrients more easily digested.
Cooking and juicing break down rough fibers and help the digestive
juices to function more efficiently on the vegetable.
This is particularly crucial for someone who is aged, unwell, or has
poor digestion.
For example, research has shown that humans absorb roughly 3-4% of
carotenoids from raw carrots and 15-20% from cooked carrots.
Carotenoids are pigments that provide many fruits and vegetables their color.
Carotenoids are potent antioxidants; hence play a function in helping us fight
old age and cancer.
Juicing fruit and vegetables is a fantastic approach to combining the
advantages of both raw and cooked.
There are a lot of different juicers out there, so I decided to ask the
specialists at the Wholistic Research Company in the UK for more about juicing
and juicers.
The benefits of juicers
The use of fresh fruit and vegetable juices in both regular and
therapeutic diets has long been proven as a tremendous assistance to natural
health, energy, and well-being.
The high mineral and nutritional content, along with the lively life energy of fresh fruits and vegetables, makes pure, fresh juice a
delightful element of a healthy person's diet.
In no other method can one take the nutritious content of, for example,
a pound or two of apples and carrots (in a glass) and then go on to have a good
breakfast.
Fresh juices are an excellent component of any person's diet. Indeed some therapies rely almost solely on the strength and nourishment
found in juices to cure an ailing body of serious sickness, including cancer.
The body is stimulated by such focused goodness to throw off negative,
unhealthy cellular degradation and restore incredible health.
The advantages of a juicer versus purchased juice
Making fresh juices from your own juicer gives you the same living
enzymes that are accessible in raw fresh fruit and vegetables.
These fresh raw foods give us more vitality and sparkle than cooked,
'dead' meals, and 'dead' juices that have languished in a container on
the shop shelf for days, weeks, or even months.
This energy (from the freshly prepared juice) is concentrated, and you
feel it as soon as you drink it. It can clear your thoughts and make you feel
light and energized.
Juicers can vary drastically in price, so what should you look for in
buying a juicer?
To extract juice from fruits and vegetables, it is required
first to break down the cell walls and fibers and then separate out the juice.
Ideally, a high-grade juicer
should give nutrient-rich juice on the one hand and a dry pulp comprising
cell walls and fibers, on the other.
There are mainly two types of juicers: centrifugal juicers and
masticating juicers.
What is a centrifugal juicer?
This is an affordable juicer that is readily accessible. It just grates
fruits and vegetables, leaving threads of shattered cells.
The juice from the cells that have been ruptured is then spun out at a very high speed (6,000 to 10,000 rpm). Because the juice is pushed out, it
combines with the air and therefore oxidizes (turns brown) rapidly.
The pulp frequently stays quite wet, because the procedure has not
absorbed all the juice.
Not only is this more wasteful, but the juice is paler, more watery,
poorer in nutritious content, and frequently very bland in the tasting.
That doesn’t seem particularly appetizing. Are masticating juicers any
better?
Masticating juicers create richer, more flavorsome, healthy juices. They
are entirely more ‘serious’, while more expensive, but should be viewed to be
an investment in good health.
They completely break up fruit or vegetables and then squeeze out
the juice from the resultant pulp inside a nose cone with a tight hole.
This is significantly more efficient than centrifugal motion. A
competent masticating juicer will extract up to five times more nutrients than
centrifugal juicers.
Masticating juicers - like the popular American champion juicer - employ
a robust cutter, rotating at 1425 rpm. This will juice entire carrots and
quartered apples rapidly and with ease.
There are also slower masticating juicers that employ a single auger or
dual gears, turning at 80 to 160 rpm, to break smaller bits of
fruit and vegetables.
They are especially excellent for juicing tough fibrous vegetables and
wheatgrass (a potent healing natural tonic).
You may also juice wheatgrass using a manual masticating juicer. A nice
one may be quite affordable to acquire, and is comparable to an old-fashioned
table-mounted mincer that is cranked with a handle.
Many masticating juicers will
also prepare smoothies, purees, nut butter, noodles, baby meals, and frozen
fruit ice creams.
The price of a decent juicer may seem rather exorbitant, but the quality
of the juice produced, and the long life of the juicer well surpass the initial outlay when compared
to the cheaper, considerably less efficient machines on the market.