30 Days of Healing Food – Day 13
Fertilizer contains only three elements — nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium, while the soil needs 52 different elements to be fertile… so juicing is great if you are juicing lots of organic full nutrient fruits and veggies.
Juices are really made to drink right away… sitting in the frig they break down and loose nutrients through oxidation and light degradation. Plus the left over veggie fiber can be added to sauces and used as a thickening agent from cooking in general… and it tastes great! Fiber is important for lowering cholesterol and for slowing down absorption of sugars.
Juices are not meant to meal replacements, fiber is needed, carbs are needed… and the full spectrum of proteins too. Even though a lot of that can found in spirulina and chlorella… other than the fiber they are full spectrum foods. Plus we tend to eat too many carbs in this day and age… and most diabetics need to count their carbs.
Some types of veggies especially roots like carrots and sweet potatoes don’t work well for blending, they make the blend too dense. Also juicing can remove elements that are high in anti-oxidants… like grape seeds, blueberry seeds, and skins of some fruits that are high in antioxidants… even to the point of lowering the antioxidant content by up to 80%. In that case blending fruit smoothies is a better choice, but with green leafy veggies, root veggies, and some fruits… juicing does a better job.
Not all juicers are the same… there are the type that grind veggies into a pulp, then the ground pulp is pressed separately in a press that is part of the juicer… this takes a little more time. These juicers are expensive but work well and provide lots of nutrient rich juice… even more than traditional juicer and provide additional enzymes from the pulp. If you have lots of time and money it’s the way to go, but the regular spinning juicer does a great job too… and they are fast.
