Supermarkets offer a wide selection of vegetable and fruit juices. However, freshly made homemade juices will bring more benefits to your family than an industrialized product.
Pick your recipe
- Select the best, ripe and healthy fruits and vegetables for juice, without traces of rot and other flaws, wash them thoroughly in running water.
- Use enameled, earthenware, or glassware, knives, and stainless steel spoons. The acids contained in the juices react with aluminum and the unprotected iron of the cookware.
- Send prepared fruits to the juicer immediately to prevent oxidation and loss of nutritional and gustatory qualities.
- Add the stems and leaves of vegetables to the juice, they are rich in vitamins and minerals.
- When preparing citrus juice, use the internal white pulp, it is rich in bioflavonoids.
- A few drops of lemon juice will help preserve the natural color of the juice and slow down the oxidation process.
- If you want healthy fiber and fiber to stay in the juice, use a blender instead of a juicer.
- Drink juice for an hour after making it or store in the refrigerator, tightly closing the lid to prevent contact with air. Or freeze immediately after cooking and drink as soon as it thaws.
- Juices contain sugar and organic acids, which provoke the destruction of tooth enamel, so it is better to dilute juices with water and drink through a tube. Or, after drinking juice, rinse your mouth with water.
- During a diet to reduce weight, give preference to vegetable juices with the addition of greens, and with exacerbation of diseases of the gastrointestinal tract, you should abandon juices and raw vegetables and fruits.