Chew on this: How to Pick an Awesome Juicer
Why to Choose a Masticating Juicer
When you juice, you are providing the nutrients in the fruits and vegetables to your body quicker and more efficiently than munching on that apple or carrot. This is because juice extracting separates the liquid and undigestible fiber ahead of time. When eaten directly, it can take as long as three to five hours for your body to absorb the nutritional value from the fruit or vegetable. When you juice, absorption increases to 68% and digestion to only 10-15 minutes!
From hard roots (carrots, ginger) and fibrous stalks (celery, rhubarb) to even the toughest leafy greens (kale, wheat grass), your juicer needs to extract while protecting even the most delicate of vital nutrients. So how do you choose the right one?
There are two different categories of juicers on the market: Centrifugal and Cold Press Masticating.
A centrifugal juicer cuts up the fruits or vegetables with a flat cutting blade. The centrifugal force makes juice from the cut pieces. Most centrifugal juicers spin at about 6,000 to 12,000 rpm. Unfortunately, the high speed and sharp knives of the centrifugal juicer take away from the nutritional value naturally available in the produce. Then there are cold press masticating juicers. With cold press masticating juicers, the produce is crushed and there is no cutting or spinning, so the enzymes are preserved in the juice. Now that’s what we’re talking about!!
Our mouth is the world’s best juicer. We use our front teeth for cutting large pieces, canines for tearing and molars for grinding. We chew about 100 to 120 times per minute, and this is just the right speed. If a juicer goes too fast, it makes air bubbles in the juice, which oxidize the nutrients and degrade the nutritional value. Too much speed also lets off heat, which kill the nutrients. It’s a delicate balance – and the lesson of how a juicer should juice, is taken from nature.
Mastication means to chew: biting and grinding food in your mouth so it becomes soft enough to swallow. There are a number of masticating juicers on the market, Twin Health, the Angel Juicer, Wildcat JX200, for example. But only one today — has all its teeth!
Designed to mimic our body’s natural chewing process, the Green Star Elite by Tribest Corporation is the only juicer on the market that offers a complete mastication system. It touts 24 “teeth,” including patented pocket recesses that act like our incisors to process harder vegetables more efficiently and easily while keeping enzymes intact. Its HD Jumbo Twin-Gear Juicing Technology uses a 3-stage process to produce higher juice yields and enhance the nutritional value of every drop. It crushes, it mixes and it presses – the same as we do when we eat. Imagine chewing, and you’ll know what I mean!
In addition, its turn speed of 110 revolutions per minute (remember what our chewing speed is?!) prevents air bubbles that degrade (oxidize) the nutritional value of the juice, while exclusive magnetic and bioceramic technology (Far Infra Red or FIR) help delay oxidation and stabilize the liquid, making the nutrients in the juice last up to 72 hours compared to 15 minutes with a centrifugal juicer.
So what should you look for when choosing a juicer? Look for one that does what your body knows how to do best — preserve even the most delicate nutrients. Is that so much to ask?!
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