Choosing A Quality Juicer
There is a huge selection in juicers that vary greatly in quality and price. Many people will naturally make the mistake of distinguishing a juicer by its price relative to what else is on the shelf. But when it comes to juicers, you really do get what you pay for and a cheap juicer cannot match the performance and quality you get with a power juicer.
The problem is that most people who have never tested different juicer don’t know that what they are regularly drinking is not as high in quality as it could be because of the poor quality juicer they are using. The better juicers operate at slower speeds to maintain the quality of your ingredients. High speed juicers and blender will do about 1,000 to 24,000 RPM.
We want our juices to be a raw as possible and the heat is like cooking the ingredients which breaks down or alters the structures of enzymes and nutrients. This defeats the purpose of juicing in the first place, which is to feed your body high concentrations of nutrients in its most natural form. A good blender will operate at about 80 RPM’s to minimize the effect of heating the elements in your juice.
Too much high speed motion of the blades causes more than just heat damage. Micro nutrients and other goodies contained in the juices are vulnerable to impact, as anything else that has physical form in this world. The impact shock can also alter the chemical composition of the nutrients. Juicing also exposes the ingredients to oxidation but slow blades greatly reduces the degree of oxidation.
A lesser consideration for getting a higher quality blender is the amount of noise the machine generates. For under a hundred dollars difference can mean the difference from scaring your cats away to being able to juice while still talking on the phone.
When paying for higher quality juicers, the design and usability will save a lot of frustrations and complications during pre-juicing as well as post-juicing routines. More expensive juicers tend to be better designed for easy clean up. Some models use pulp catching compartments that make it easy to dump the solid content and keep the rest of the juicer clean. A good juicer can rinse clean in about five minutes.
Then comes the ingredients that the juicers are built for. Harder ingredients like leafy greens and wheat grass is tougher and cannot be handled by softer juicers such as a centrifugal juicer, which is designed to only handle citrus fruit and other soft ingredients. It is important for anyone to incorporate vegetable juicing just as equally as fruit so unless there is already a strong enough juicer sitting around, there is no reason to buy a juicer that can’t juice hard ingredients. Get a multiple function juicer and live life juiced.