Centrifugal and masticating juicers are the two primary types of juicers to choose from. Both are fantastic for different reasons; herein this article, we’ll discuss the advantages and disadvantages of each, as well as a few additional types of juicers to consider.

Centrifugal Juicers

The most common juicers are centrifugal juicers. This is due to the fact that they are often less expensive and easier to use. A high-speed spinning strainer with a stainless steel blade disc at the bottom is used in this type of juicer. When you drop the produce from the machine’s top, the spinning disc shreds it all into a fine pulp. This causes the juice to be released and then pushed into the strainer. The fast centrifugal force makes a lot of noise and oxidizes the juice more than a slower moving masticating juicer. This method produces more foam and reduces storage time.

While these traditional juicers are extremely effective at producing fresh fruit juices, they have a disadvantage when it comes to juicing leafy greens like wheatgrass and kale. If juicing leafy greens is vital to you, you should look at a masticating or twin gear juicer instead.

In addition, if you are a purist juicer, leafy greens are your best friends, and you may dislike the fact that centrifugal juicers aren’t quite up to the duty of juicing greens. We do not possess one of these juicers and do not suggest them due to the aforementioned downsides.

Pros: Easy to clean and use, less prep time needed, juices fast, juices whole fruits, less expensive, juices fibrous veggies.

Cons: Not optimal for juicing greens, lower yield than a masticating juicer, noisy, juice doesn’t store well in the fridge, nutrients oxidize quicker, shorter warranty.

Masticating juicers

Masticating juicers are also known as cold-press juicers since their extraction method produces no heat. These juicers use a screw to mash and grind the produce into the juicer’s walls, pressing it through the strainer and separating the pulp and juice. It is a slow-running juicer that takes a bit longer but produces less oxidation, making it ideal for all types of vegetables, especially greens. The sole disadvantage is that, due to the small mouth hole, the produce must be processed before being thrown into the juicer.

Pros: Extracts more juice with higher nutritional value, less foam, juice lasts longer, quiet, less waste.

Cons: Takes longer to prep produce and make juice, more difficult to assemble and clean, higher price tag.

Twin Gear juicers

Another excellent juicer is a twin gear juicer. It works similarly to a masticating juicer, and the moderate speed rotation maintains the produce’s cellular structure. It contains two gears that revolve inward with a tiny gap, crushing and grinding vegetables to extract its juice. This type of juicer prevents oxidation and keeps the enzymes and nutrients in your juice intact. Juicing leafy greens and soft food is often simple with this type of juicer since the gears revolve inwards, allowing them to self-feed. Feeding hard produce, such as carrots or beets, may be more difficult. The key is to cut the fruit thin and at an angle that allows it to go in first.

Pros: Juice stays fresh longer, higher juice yield and nutritional value, quiet.

Cons: Takes longer to prep & juice, longer to clean, not optimal for juicing citrus, higher price tag, larger & heavier machine.

Citrus Juicers/Press

If you enjoy fresh orange juice, I recommend investing in a citrus press. Fruit and vegetable juicers, on the other hand, require a lot longer to use. However, if you plan on making more than a few ounces of citrus juice on a daily basis, I recommend investing in an electrical citrus juicer or citrus press. A vertical, ribbed reamer fits onto a shaft attached to the motor at the base of electric citrus juicers. When you apply pressure to the reamer by pushing the half-cut fruit down, the motor starts rotating. Many versions additionally have an auto-reverse feature.

Pros: Easy to assemble and clean, reasonably priced, juices fast, time saver, quiet.

Cons: Not as versatile, only citrus juices. 

With the busy lives that we all live, it’s hard to keep track of the fruits and vegetables that we’re consuming on a daily basis. Thankfully, juicing makes it easy to get your daily dose of nutrients from fruits and vegetables so you can reap all these great health benefits!

1. Increasing Vitamins and Minerals

Juicing has the ability to provide the body with a healthy source of vitamins and minerals that could otherwise be missing from your diet. If your body is lacking these, that could mean your body isn’t working to its full potential. If you’re not a fan of eating whole fresh fruits and vegetables, juicing is a fun way to incorporate them into your diet.

2. Potential Weight Loss

Juice may help you lose weight if you include it in your diet. Depending on the fruits and vegetables you consume, your morning, afternoon, or even evening juice may be fewer in calories than your usual snacks. In many circumstances, this might indicate that you are calorie deficient, which is a good way to lose a few pounds. Although we advocate eating nutritious meals throughout the day, juicing is a great (and tasty) way to replenish any fruits and veggies you may be lacking.

3. Increased Energy

Consuming more B-vitamin-rich meals is one of the various ways we may boost our energy levels. This includes leafy greens, citrus fruits, beets, ginger, and many other foods. Juicing is a quick, nutritious, and convenient way to get these B vitamins into your body.

4. Decrease Inflammation and Reset Your Body

Because of its anti-inflammatory effects, juicing may be a fantastic supplement for you if you suffer from pain or inflammation of any type. Consuming darker, leafy green vegetables and fruits high in vitamin C will provide antioxidants to your body. Fresh juice cleanses are a great method to rejuvenate your body and start over if you’re in need of a body reset. Although your body contains mechanisms that help filter out toxins, juice can help jump-start your detox even more.

5. Protect Against Diseases

Drinking juiced fruits and vegetables can enhance your nutritional intake. This could introduce vitamins and minerals into your body. These are essential in the prevention of illnesses such as heart disease, high blood sugar, digestive disorders, immune system issues, high blood pressure, and others.

Juicing has been popular for decades now and is seen in quite a few circles as the cornerstone of those health-conscious. People are juicing to lose weight, to cleanse and to consume more nutrients. Like many aspects of nutrition and weight loss, there is not a one-size-fits-all answer to the topic of juicing. Read on to find out anything about juicing to help you understand if it can benefit you and help you reach your health goals.

1. Replacing meals with juice

Some people believe that a juice cleanse is a healthy alternative to meals for two to three days in a row. But experts agree that it’s not good for you as with juice, you’re not ingesting enough protein for the day. The right way is to consider juice to complement your diet, not a replacement for actual food.

2. Whole fruits always provide more fiber.

As expected, fiber content is always higher in the whole product because it is primarily found in the pulp, which is removed with the traditional juicing process. Fiber is one of the key reasons that fruits and vegetables are so good for our health.

3. Role of juicing with detoxing

Many people buy into juicing because it’s touted as a way to cleanse the body of toxins. But actually, your body does this cleansing on its very own—no juicing required. It has a built-in detox system in the form of your liver and kidneys. Maintain a well-rounded, healthy diet and your body will operate as designed.

4. Juicing makes you miss out on one thing

When you grind a solid fruit or vegetable into a liquid juice, you’re stripping it of insoluble fiber. Juice is a beverage. It’s a valuable nutrient that aids in digestion and helps you feel satisfied but take note that you’re still gonna feel hungry without a proper meal.

5. Fresh juice helps you maintain sugar

Downing blended juice as part of a healthy eating M.O. is way healthier. If you stick to drinking with fresh-squeezed juices that aren’t packaged, you can avoid a bunch of added sugar.

6. Juice is rich in antioxidants

Juice is filled with vitamins A, C, and E, which act as antioxidants. These are substances that counteract pesky molecules in our bodies known as free radicals that can do cell damage.

7. Juice is an easy way to get your veggies

Juicing may be the fastest and easiest way to get nutrients from the vegetables you don’t usually take on a daily basis.

8. Juice is an alternative to calorie-heavy drinks.

Fresh Juice is definitely not sugar and calorie free. But compared to the commercialized sweetened beverages like sodas and sports drinks, it has more nutrient density without added sugar and preservatives. 

9. Juice is hydrating

Juice is no water in terms of hydrating effect but it definitely ups your fluid intake—as opposed to dehydrating effects of coffee, soda, or alcohol.

10. You can get more benefits juicing with the peel.

Not everybody knows but a lot of the nutrients of fruits and vegetables live in the skin. Some of these are apples, pears, bananas, beets, cucumber, peppers, eggplant, grapes, kiwis, watermelon, ginger, carrots, peaches, nectarines, and plums. So whenever possible, just wash the organic produce and juice it without peeling. But if you’re not sure if the produce is organic, always peel the skin in order for you to reduce your exposure to pesticides. 

Unlike what listed above, there are also fruits and vegetables that are not ideal to include in juicing. Lemons and limes peels can upset the stomach, cantaloupe skin is one of the top sources of food-borne illness, oranges and grapefruit peels taste bitter, mango skin can be eaten but can cause adverse reactions in some people and pumpkin skin which is just too hard to juice

Juicing has its place. If it’s encouraging you to get more fruits and vegetables in your diet, then that’s a good thing. But realize that juicing isn’t going to do more for you than just eating the food whole. So, weigh the pros and cons of juicing and make sure to do it the right way to benefit the best from it.

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Today, juicing is the given name to a new nutrition method, in which you consume mostly vegetable juices. Sometimes it’s also called green juicing, since it contains lots of green vegetables and has the color green.

Juicing involves grinding, squeezing, or pressing fresh fruit and/or vegetables for their juice. It’s a modern term for a long-standing practice of pressing harvested fruits for quick access to their nutrients. This is where the natural liquids, vitamins, and minerals are extracted from raw fruits and vegetables, this process strips away any solid matter from the fruits and vegetables and you’re left with the liquid only. The liquid contains most of the vitamins, minerals and plant chemicals (phytonutrients) found in the fruit.

Many people use it to detox or add more nutrients to their diet. Avid juicers claim that juicing can improve nutrient absorption from fruits and vegetables, while others say it strips away their important nutrients like fiber.

Drinking fresh juice is an easy way to get a number of vitamins and minerals. Still, while research shows some support for juicing, the potential health benefits vary drastically depending on what’s exactly in the juice. If you’re not careful, you may end up drinking too many calories and too much sugar.

If you try juicing, make only as much juice as you can drink at once; harmful bacteria can grow quickly in freshly squeezed juice. If you buy commercially produced fresh juice, select a pasteurized product. The amount of nutrients in your juice can depend on whether the fruits and vegetables are grown commercially or organically. Cooking or pasteurization can also reduce the nutrients available in juice.

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!

Juice can be a great way to add in more nutrients from fruits and veggies. They are packed with vitamins, minerals, phytonutrients, and antioxidants which can add a high concentration of anti-inflammatory nutrients to the diet. And because you can juice much larger quantities of fruit and vegetables than you can eat, it makes the nutrients more readily available to the body in much larger quantities than if you were to eat the fruits and vegetables whole. Juice also gives you a quick dose of feel-good energy. Additionally, eating foods rich in polyphenols, may have  a protective effect against diseases such as cancer, atherosclerosis, and type 2 diabetes. The recommendations from The American Heart Association states that the right mix of juice is two fruit and three vegetable servings for a longer life.

Without the fiber, juice is easily digestive and absorbable since your gut does not have to work as hard to break it down. This may improve the bioavailability of phytochemicals and antioxidants. Additionally, the polyphenols included in fruit and vegetable juices may have a prebiotic impact on the stomach. Prebiotics foster a favorable environment for the growth of beneficial bacteria.

Consuming fluids containing electrolytes and carbohydrates, such as juice, can also be a fantastic strategy to keep hydrated for individuals exercising for extended periods of time or at an athletic level. Additionally, for individuals who dislike drinking water, a small amount of juice can make staying hydrated more appealing.

Detoxification can also be assisted by juice. Phytochemicals obtained from various fruits and vegetables can assist in the creation of enzymes, which enhance the body’s natural capacity to cleanse and resist oxidative stress and inflammation.