Juicing, or extracting juice from fruit and vegetables has become a huge trend across the globe. Once the domain of cafes and smoothie stalls, juicing has also made its way into the home, with a wide variety of appliances available to consumers. Below are the different types of Juicing methods and why they are the best for you.

Cold-pressed: Also called masticating juicers, these crush and press fruits and vegetables much more slowly to obtain as much juice as possible.

• Cold pressed juice means the fruits/vegetables juices have been extracted using a pressing method hydraulically which yields not only the most juice, but also the most nutrition
• There is absolutely no heat or chopping done to the raw fruits/vegetables
• Does the BEST job at retaining the most nutrients during the juicing process in comparison to other juicing techniques
• Expensive piece of equipment, but completely worth the end result!

Centrifugal: These juicers grind fruits and vegetables into pulp through a high-speed spinning action with a cutting blade. The spinning also separates the juice from the solids.

• Spins at high speed
• The fruits/vegetables that you put down the chute + the high spinning speed separates the juice from the pulp leaving the juice in a bowl and pulp in the container
• Typically will be heated to some degree due to the high speed nature
• The cell walls of the fruits and vegetables are not as easily broken down and may be wasted if you don’t “re-juice” again to yield the most you can
• Fairly inexpensive juicer, which can be purchased in many stores

High speed blenders and nut milk bags:  Vitamix, Blendtec, etc.

• Uses high speeds to spin, which may heat the product for the amount of time you’d need to completely juice.
• Longer process with filtering out the pulp and using a nut milk bag
• Won’t contain as many nutrients as a cold-pressed juice, but still contains a great amount!