Juicing Tips and Techniques
Purchasing and Storing Your
Fruits & Vegetables
•Always wash fruits and vegetables before juicing.
•Always use fresh fruits and vegetables for juicing.
•To save money and obtain fresher produce, purchase fruits or vegetables that are in season.
•Keep your fruits and vegetables ready for juicing by washing them before storing.
•Most fruits and hardier type vegeta- bles can be stored at cool room temperature. The more delicate and perishable items such as tomatoes, berries, leafy greens, celery, cucum- bers and herbs should be stored in the refrigerator until required.
Preparing Fruits & Vegetables
•If using fruits with hard or inedible skins such as oranges, melons, mangoes and kiwi fruit, always peel before placing in the Juicer.
•All fruits with pits and seeds or stones such as nectarines, peaches, apricots, plums and cherries MUST be pitted before juicing.
Hint!
Your Juice Fountain™ makes invigorating, frothy orange juice. Simply peel the oranges and juice. For best results, refrigerate oranges before juicing.
The Right Technique
•When juicing a variety of different ingredients of varying textures, best results are gained by alternating harder ingredients with softer ones. For example, when juicing two hard vegetables such as carrots and parsnips and a softer type, such as tomatoes, start with the parsnips, then the tomato, finishing with the carrots. Alternating between soft and hard vegetables in this manner assists by cleaning the stainless steel filter basket between the vegetables. This enables the Juicer to extract the maximum amount of juice from each vegetable.
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•If you are using herbs, sprouts or small leafy greens it is a good idea to wrap them in a large lettuce or spinach leaf or place them through the Feed Chute between pieces of firmer vegetable.
•All fruits and vegetables produce dif- ferent 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, and juicing is not a science, the precise quantities of any juice are not crucial to the success of a particular drink recipe. Specific amounts are important in other recipes, such as baked goods or jellies.
