Tips on juicing
The inside information on juicing
Although the juice drinks contained in this booklet were developed with flavour, texture and aroma at the forefront, the health benefits certainly add to the pleasurable taste experience.
95% of the nutrient content of fruit and vegetables is found in the juice. Liquids extracted from fresh fruits and vegetables from an important part of a well- balanced healthy diet. Fresh fruit and vegetable juices are an easy to make source of vitamins and minerals. Juices are rapidly absorbed into the blood stream therefore being the quickest way in which the body can digest nutrients.
When you make your own juices, you have complete control over what you include in them. You select the ingredients and decide if you need to use sugar, salt or other flavouring agents.
Freshly extracted juices should be consumed just after they have been made to avoid a loss of vitamin content.
Purchasing and storage of fruit and vegetables
•Always wash fruit and vegetables before juicing.
•Always use fresh fruit and vegetables for juicing.
•To save money and obtain fresher produce, purchase fruit or vegetables that are in season (see the Fruit and Vegetable Facts chart on pages 20 and 21).
•Keep your fruit and vegetables ready for juicing by washing them before storing.
•Most fruits and hardier type vegetables can be stored at room temperature. The more delicate and perishable items such as tomatoes, berries, leafy greens, celery, cucumbers and herbs should be stored in the refrigerator until required.
Preparation of fruit and vegetables
•If using fruits with hard or inedible skins such as mangoes, guava, melons or pineapple, always peel before juicing.
•Citrus fruit can be juiced in the Juice Fountain Professional if peeled first.
•All fruits with pits, hard seeds or stones such as nectarines, peaches, mangoes, apricots, plums and cherries must be pitted before juicing.
•A small amount of lemon juice can be added to apple juice to prohibit browning.
Your Juice Fountain Professional makes invigorating, frothy orange juice. Simply peel the oranges and juice. (It is best to refrigerate oranges before juicing).
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The right technique
When juicing a variety of ingredients with varying textures start with the softer textured ingredients on low speed then change to high speed for the harder textured ingredients.
If you are juicing herbs, sprouts or leafy green vegetables either wrap then together to form a bundle or juice them in the middle of a combination of ingredients on low speed to obtain the
best extraction.
If juicing herbs or leafy green vegetables on their own, the juice yield will be low due to the nature of centrifugal juicing, it is advised to juice them with a combination of other fruit and vegetables.
Note
All fruit and vegetables produce different amounts of liquids. This varies within the same group i.e. one batch of tomatoes can produce more juice than another batch. Since juice recipes are not exact, the precise quantities of any juice are not crucial to the success of a particular mixture.
To extract the maximum amount of juice always push the food pusher down slowly.
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Getting the right blend
It is easy to create great tasting juice. If you have been making your own vegetable and fruit juices, then you know how simple it is to invent new combinations. Taste, colour, texture and ingredient preferences are a personal thing. Just think of some of your favourite flavours and foods - would they work well together or would they clash. Some strong flavours could over power the more subtle flavours of others. It is however, a good rule of thumb to combine starchy, pulpy ingredients with those high in moisture.
Using the pulp
The remaining pulp left after juicing fruit or vegetables is mostly fibre and cellulose which, like the juice, contains vital nutrients necessary for the daily diet and can be used in many ways. However, like the juice, pulp should be used that day to avoid loss of vitamins.
There are a number of recipes contained in this book for the use of pulp (refer page R12). Apart from these, some of the other uses of pulp are to bulk out rissoles, thicken casseroles or soups or in the case of fruit, simply placed in a bowl topped with meringue and baked for a simple dessert.
Quite apart from the consumption use, pulp is great used in the garden for compost.
When using the pulp, there may be some pieces of fruit or vegetable remaining. These should be removed before using the pulp in any recipes.
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