Juice for Life A beginner's guide to getting started with juicing (From Juice Recipes for your health)
Why Juice? Think about a healthy beverage. You're probably thinking about juice (since you're reading this), or maybe a smoothie. If anything with the word 'diet' in it just crept into your mind, you better keep reading. Let's start off with a few things that beginners should know...
Is juice the same thing as a smoothie? No, these are two very different things. They're both very healthy for you, and one isn't better than the other, necessarily. A smoothie is made in a blender. It's blended, not juiced. With a smoothie, you retain the pulp (which is insoluble fiber). This can be either gross or good depending on what you're blending. A blended drink yields a lot more because of the pulp, and some people like that, but others find it difficult to drink all of it. Juice is juiced with a juicer. Juicers 'juice' your produce and separate the pulp (the insoluble fiber) from it. You discard the pulp and drink the juice. You still get fiber in the form of soluble fiber. I know, crazy, right? You just learned something new today. Juicers are things like a Breville juice fountain, Omega VRT350, Omega 8006, etc. Not a nutribullet! A nutribullet is a blender that blends. Those blades chop things up like every blender