In an ideal world, everyone would eat their daily fruits and veggies, but nowadays most people are always on the go, so they often times need more convenient options.
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Rather than peeling an orange and eating the fruit, many people make juices and enjoy a variety of nutrients with adding different fruits and veggies even.
Juicing is how you can incorporate more minerals and vitamins into your diet without too much hassle. But it is important to juice responsibly so that you get the most benefits for your time and money.
People often times go to great lengths to choose the best juicer for them, starting with researching which are the best tools, what benefits they get with this or that model, and so on.
After deciding on the best choice of juicer, there comes the question of ‘what should be avoided?’, or ‘what should I combine?’, or ‘why does juicing give me an upset stomach?’ etc.
Here are the answers to some of the most asked questions about juicing in case you may have been searching.
- Yes, you can get stomachaches from drinking too much juice. It’s very important that you juice responsibly. When you drink too much at once (some people drink up to a liter), the excess sugar can lead to an upset stomach.
- No, juicing does not replace a wholesome and healthy diet. Juicing should always compliment your diet, not replace eating whole fruits and veggies.
- No, it’s not recommended that you put the produce on ice before juicing since cold juice will shut down the digestive system making the body more susceptible to health problems.
- Yes, drinking just one type of juice daily – whichever that is, will affect the body in a negative way because what the body needs is variety. Try not to drink the same juice more than two or three times a week.
- Yes, it is advised that you wait some time before you eat after having had juice, but only when your food is not in harmony with the ingredients you juiced. In this case, you should wait 15 to 30 minutes.
- Yes, combining fruits and vegetables when juicing is a bad idea, except when you combine apples with vegetables. Apples are neutral, so they won’t hamper your digestion when you blend them with veggies.
- Yes, you can just wash the beets before juicing and not peel them. The main objective is to remove the dirt off the skin so you don’t end up drinking it. Don’t worry about any pesticides because these go deeper than the skin anyways, so peeling won’t necessarily eliminate them.
- No, you only lose so much antioxidant value with juicing. Juicing retains about 99% of the antioxidants in the ingredients. What is lost is only the insoluble fiber.
- Yes, apples turning brown are perfectly natural and okay. This happens when the fruits are exposed to oxygen and apples are quite susceptible to oxygen so they turn brown faster.
- Yes, you should juice vegetables more than fruits since the latter contain more sugar and can thus spike your blood sugar.
Also, since people tend to enjoy eating whole fruits more than whole vegetables, juicing is a great way to get nutrients otherwise absent when we cook the vegetables.
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And remember that you can use those extra veggie parts left from cooking to make juice.