Vegetable Juicing Tips

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Is parsley juice healthful?

Vegetable Juicing with Parsley

Parsley is the most nutritious herb you can eat and should be included in every vegetable juicing program.

Parsley juice is very strong, so mix one part juice to 10 parts of another less potent vegetable juice such as celery, cucumber or carrot juice. Keep parsley running through your vegetable juicer because it is helpful when you're juicing for weight loss.

Are you also juicing for health? Parsley juice cleanses the urinary tract, the blood and helps prevent kidney and liver cancer.

   
What are the health benefits of juicing beets?

Vegetable Juicing with Beets

Beets, tossed into your juicer along with beet greens, make a terrific vegetable juice. Beet juice is strong and should be mixed liberally in your vegetable juicer with celery, lettuce and carrot juice.

Beets are important when juicing for health because they build efficiency in your circulatory system and are good for your heart. Beet juice is useful when juicing for weight-loss, too. Only drink small amounts of beet juice a few times a week. Too much beet juice can upset your stomach.

   
How can I use potato juice?

Vegetable Juicing with Potatoes

The common, simple potato is useful in vegetable juicing. Because the potato is so mild when juiced, it is great for mixing with stronger vegetable juices from cabbage and radishes. Put scrubbed, sliced potatoes, still wearing their skins, into your vegetable juicer. Potato juice combines well with juices from squash, carrots, lemons and parsnips.

   
Can I juice winter squash?

Vegetable Juicing with Winter Squash

Juicing winter squash is very difficult because the vegetable is so hard. It's best to cut the squash into strips and feed them into your vegetable juicer.

You can cook squash lightly before juicing it, but it tends to stick to the inside of the juicer. There's probably no better cancer-fighting vegetable than winter squash.

   
What vegetable juices improve the taste of turnip juice?

Vegetable Juicing with Turnips

A vegetable juicing and cancer prevention program should include juice from turnips and turnip greens. Although high in sodium and strongly flavored, turnip juice is high in calcium, magnesium and potassium.

When you send turnips through your vegetable juicer, add other vegetables to improve the taste. Juice from fresh spinach and carrot juice improve turnip juice's flavor. Collards and kale juice up nicely and taste pretty good, too.

   
Do fresh juices need added salt?

No-Salt Vegetable Juicing

The health benefits of juicing are high. Unlike with canned juice, you won't be overdosing on added salt when you take up vegetable juicing.

Green vegetable juicing, especially using spinach, celery and kale, produces a drink that's contains quite a bit of natural sodium. Using a home vegetable juicer means you won't be drinking juice low on vital potassium lost through the canning process.

   
How do I get the most juice out of spinace and other leafy vegetables?

Get the most juice out of spinach and other leafy vegetables

Low speed single auger juicers, or twin gear juicers are best when it comes to juicing leafy vegetables. If you have the centrifugal style juicer (which are best for juicing harder fruits and vegetables) it is recommended that you ball up a handful or so of the spinach or lettuce etc and put it through your juicer with something harder such as a carrot or stalk of celery. Doing this will help the cutter blade better get a hold of the leafy vegetables and should produce a better yield for you.

If you are primarily juicing leafy vegetables it is recommended that you use a juicer such as the Omega 8003, or other low speed single auger juicers which were designed specifically to be able to juice wheatgrass and other leafy vegetables effectively while still being able to juice harder fruits and vegetables.

   
What vegetable juices can I add to tomato juice?

Vegetable Juicing with Tomatoes

The tomato is no stranger to the benefits of juicing. Thick, salty store-bought tomato juice is so different from fresh home squeezed tomato juice. Tomato juice prepared in your own vegetable juicer is light, velvety and refreshing. After juicing fresh tomatoes, add vegetables such as celery carrots, asparagus, cabbage and sweet peppers.

   
What is jicama juice like?

Vegetable Juicing with Jicama

Like potato and carrot juice, jicama juice is an excellent base for strongly flavored vegetables. Jicama juice is mild, thick and creamy, like potato juice. Wash, slice, but don't peel jicama before adding it to your vegetable juicer. The jicama juice will contain nutrients that were near the skin even after the skin's been pulped away.

   
What vegetables complement spinach juice?

Vegetable Juicing with Spinach

While the benefits of juicing are many, be cautious using spinach in your vegetable juicing program. Spinach juice, while an extremely healthful vegetable juice, is difficult for the body to metabolize.

You only need a few ounces of spinach juice per week. Vegetables that juice well with spinach in vegetable juicers include lettuce, tomatoes, turnips and carrots.

   
Can I juice artichokes?

Vegetable Juicing with Artichokes

Lightly parboil artichokes in a non-reactive stainless-steel or glass pot before juicing. Strip away leaves down to the tender, meaty heart. The leaves will fit easily into your home vegetable juicer, but the heart must be sliced and inserted in sections. Artichoke juice is quite strong. Mix it with other vegetable juices such as celery, cucumber tomato and carrot juice.

   
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