This is John Kohler with discountjuicers.com. Today we have a very special treat for you.
What I'm going to do today is share my favorite juicing recipe, and, you know, many people
that buy juicers form discountjuicers.com gets the juicer and most juicing companies
actually don't include any juicing recipes with their juicer and that's an absolute travesty.
I think they should include some juicing recipes with their juicers, but because they're not
including the recipe, that gives me the opportunity to share my recipes with you, but better than
sharing a recipe with you, what I want to do today is share with you the overall concept
of making your own juice recipes in your own kitchen, much like, you know, when you learn
how to bake cookies, if you learned how to bake cookies, you know when you're a kid,
all cookies have some ingredients in common, such as flour, sugar, eggs, shortening, and
then they add like oatmeal or add like, you know, chocolate chips or add nuts or add,
you know, macadamias, or whatever, they add different things, So, just like baking cookies,
juicing is the same exact way. There's basically, you know, a protocol, or basically a basic
recipe, or a basis that you want to follow. You always do the basic things and then you
could add things, much like creating cookies. You can add the chocolate chips. So, in the
case of juicing, really simple, real easy, lets go over it right now. So, the basis of
every juice, and that means ¾ of your glass of juice is always going to be, in my opinion,
these base ingredients. So, the base should include like celery. Celery should be a big
base in your juice. You could, also use the apples as a base in your juice. Another thing
you could use as the base in your juice are some zucchinis, excellent good base for your
juice, and finally you could use some cucumbers as the base of your juice. Some other things
you could also use in the base of the juice that I actually don't have shown here today
are romaine lettuce hearts, they're actually nice and water rich, very good, nice neutral
flavor, and the other thing you could use as the base of your juice is also things like
carrots. Carrots are an excellent base as well. So, the reason why we want 75% of our
glass with these common vegetables is that they're pretty, like, neutral, you know. Yes,
they have some taste and they're kind of strong, but, you know, they're pretty good juices.
You could actually just make a juice out of this stuff straight. So, that's actually our
basis. So, your basis you could actually use any percentage of these, a quarter cucumber,
a whole cucumber a part of a zucchini, all the zucchini. You know, I try to keep my bases
really simple, so today, actually, my basis is exactly this. I'm going to use cucumber,
zucchini, apple and celery and you'll see me do it. I'm using the mega vert 330 HD juicer
today. This is actually one of my favorite juicers. This is a nice one-step machine.
So, 75-100% of your glass should be these basically common or starter vegetables and
fruits actually, that I just mentioned. So, you could do your whole glass and that could
just be your whole juice and, you know, use any combination of those fruits and vegetables
that you like that, you know, that's going to taste good for you or what's available
for you at your local supermarket of health food store, even, better yet, in your garden.
So, that being said, if you are going to do 75% of your juice, we still have 25% left
in the glass to fill up. So, that last 25% of the juice, in my opinion should be something
like dark leafy green vegetables. So, the dark leafy green vegetables such as the kale
and the collards are some of the most nutrient dense vegetables and actually nutrient-dense
foods on the whole planet. That means they have so much nutrients actually for what they
are, and it's actually amazing how many nutrients are in there and the best way to get the leafy
green vegetables are to grow them yourself. So, I'm here in my front yard garden and I'm
going to go ahead and harvest some tree collard here right behind me and also some Bok choi.
So, let me go ahead and harvest some of those. So, the best way to basically juice anything
is to get it fresh-picked, whether it's grown yourself or from your local farmers market,
freshest is always bestest is what I lie to say and you want to use the freshest quality
produce, you know, to juice, to get the best results. If you're trying to juice things
that are soft and wilty and going bad, then your not going to get your results with the
juice and the juice quality's not going to be as good as if it's fresh picked. So, where
back, here we go, awe got a bunch of Bok choi, which is fresh, literally fresh picked from
my garden. Now we're going to juice t all. So while I did say that you want 75% of your
juice, of the base stuff, you know, such as what I'm using today is celery, apples, zucchini
and cucumbers, you don't want to necessarily put all that into the juicer first and then
put all your greens, you want to mix up your greens and basically that' going to allow
for you juicer to work more effectively. So, first we're going to go ahead and turn this
machine on. First, we're just going to drop a bok choi leaf in there and bok choi also
can be used as a base vegetables, you know, in the base instead of just as a leafy green
in addition because they are actually kind of watery so they can actually be used either
way. So, push that right in the machine. Next, we're going to definitely want to rotate the
produce that we put in the machine, so next were going to put in some celery and you'll
always want to basically break the celery up into little pieces before you put it in
the machine. The problem is in this machine, the strings of the celery actually may get
stuck in the machine. So, by breaking it up you break down the strings and you can already
see the juice starting to come out here. Let's go ahead and put some tree collards in there,
too, and the tree collards are defiantly my favorite. If you have the opportunity to get
some tree collards, they are kind of rare, they get really sweet in the wintertime. Next,
we just cut the zucchini in half, we're going to drop it in there, and the omega vert 330
HD is literally self-feeding. It's just basically all I got to do is drop stuff in there. For
the most part I don't even need to use the pusher, and it's getting juiced up. Next,
we're going to go ahead and cut this apple up and some people ask, you know, 'hey, John,
can you juice the apple seeds?' Well, the juicer can handle the apple seeds no problem,
but they do say that in the apple seeds there's some cyanide. So, you know, you personally
might not want to juice the apple seeds. Sometime I do, sometimes I don't, but if you are, you
know, paranoid, then you might want to just make sure you take them out. So, today, I've
taken them all out, we're just going to dump that in there, let the omega vert juicer juice
them on up. Next, more collard greens. Now, you know, juicing is an excellent way to increase
your fruit and vegetables, especially the vegetables, consumption Most people don't
eat enough vegetables in their diet, and by juicing your vegetables, you can basically
increase the servings of vegetables that you get in your diet really easily, like, I mean,
I could eat a big salad of all these greens, but you know what? It's a lot better to juice
them all up. You basically get all the nutrition that's coming out on this side, all the juice,
all the nutrition of the leafy greens without the fiber. So, all the fiber's coming out
on this side, and that's what I juicer does, and that's what our bodies do. Out bodies
are basically nothing more or less than a juice extractor. We eat solid foods and then
out one side come liquids and out the other side come solids, and so when the juice breaks
down the food for you, it makes it a lot easier to digest. So, juice is one of the easiest
things in this whole world to digest. So, because it is easier to digest it takes less
energy form your body to digest the food and that means you will have more energy to do
the other tings in life that you want to do. So, as you can see, we got, you know, some
juice going on. We're going to juice more leafy greens. One of the main benefits of
the leafy greens are that they are rich in chlorophyll. So, chlorophyll is basically
the green coloring in the leafy greens and chlorophyll, very important, really helpful
in detoxification in its very nutritious food. We should all be eating more chlorophyll by
the way of leafy greens through the juicer. I mean, this is like liquid chlorophyll right
there. You can go into the health food store and you can buy liquid chlorophyll and for
a little bottle it's a lot of money, but you can make your own at home with the omega vert
330 HD juicer, actually most other juicers for that matter. That being said, you know,
some juicers actually do perform better juicing certain produce than others. So, for example,
the mega vert juicer is pretty much a well-rounded machine that'll juice most things fairly well
and I like it because it's fairly good at juicing leafy greens. Many juicers actually
will not effective juice the leafy greens such as the centripetal ejection juicers.
I do have many different videos; you want to be sure to check YouTube. I've made many
different videos comparing all the different juicer styles showing, actually juicing different
things and different juicers so that you can see how they work before you buy them and
hopefully with these videos, you'll be more aware of how the juicers work and you'll be
able to make an informed decision when buying a juicer, and that's really important to me
to basically match the juicer that you're buying to match it with what you want to do
with the juicer. So, I have another video on YouTube, actually it's called juicing,
what is your juicing style? Because based on your juicing style, that's going to determine
what juicer you're going to get and that's going to work best for you. Alright, let's
put some more Bok choi in there, I love Bok choi, really good stuff. Put some more collards.
This pulp is some really dry pulp. Now, unless you buy like a norwok juicer or a wells press,
that's basically a press that really gets the pulp sawdust dry, all the juicers will
leave some basically wetness in the pulp and depending on the juicer and the produce that's
being juiced, its going to depend on how wet the pulp is. Certain styles of juicers are
more effective in juicing certain things. For example, centripetal ejection style juicers
are actually more efficient than this style juicer when juicing things like carrots, for
example, but this machine is more efficient in general juicing leafy greens than the centripetal
ejection style juicer. Alright, so, let's go ahead and put some more apples in there
and it looks like we're almost done juicing. Our collection cup's just about full there.
The basis of any juice should be the common basically base vegetables. Once you got that
down, then you can add some greens to basically make your juice more nutritious. Of course,
you don't even need to add the greens if you can just do the base, and once again, if you
can juice any of the things in the base, if you only have celery and apples. If you have
zucchini, you can use that, too. It doesn't really matter what you do. I want you to learn
how to basically make your own base and experiment and have fun and another ting I'd like to
say is another recipe that you can do is what I call monojuicing. So, you could juice straight
carrots and drink straight carrot juice and for many years when I got into juicing I did
just drink straight carrot juice and nothing else and it was absolutely phenomenal, so
good, and you want to make sure you get the bunny love brand organic carrots. They're
actually the sweetest. So, hopefully you learned more about constructing and make your own
juice recipes out of what you have and a lot of times, you know, I'll come out to my garden
and look and see what all I have to juice and a lot of times I'll actually just juice
what I have an abundance of because when your juicing produce it runs out very quickly.
A lot of produce basically compresses into a little bit of juice and the juice is so
delicious, so nutritious and so helpful for you. That being said, if you don't want to
make your own recipes, at discount juicers.com, for a limited time, we're offering the juice
mans book, and this juice mans book is called the juice man power of juicing. This is absolutely
my favorite juicing book in the whole wide world. It has over like 100 different juice
recipes and we're offering this for under $4 for a limited time. You know, this is a
New York Times best seller, over ½ million copies sold. So, man, I could list off some
recipes inhere for you. Here's one. Winters pineapple tangerine juice. One pineapple round,
preferably organic, and tangerines. Here's one. Cantaloupe juice. It's just straight
up cantaloupe, cantaloupe only. The cap coder. 3 apples and 1 cup on cranberries. I mean,
so many different. Here's a green power juice. 4 carrots, 2 stalks of celery, handful of
spinach, handful of parsley. Graying hair remedy. That's where the juicing books come
in handy, they have all these different remedy things, and I don't know if they work or not.
One wedge of cabbage, handful of spinach, and some carrots. So, you know, this book
is available for a limited time if you do need a recipe book, but that being said, I
encourage you to learn how to make your own juice recipes in the kitchen so you can be
independent of juice recipes books. You don't need them, you can make your own recipes.
So, I want you to be able to come up with your own juice recipes. The most important
thing to remember is, you know, when you make a juice, don't throw everything but the kitchen
sink in the juicer. You know, whatever you have left in your fridge, don't just put it
in there 'cause you can make some really nasty juice. If you just stick to the basis of what
I told you, you're going to be alright and, you know, go slow and surely and, you know,
whatever you do, when you make a juice recipe, try to use less than 6 ingredients. It's always
going to turn out better the less ingredients. The more ingredients you start to put in there,
the more chance it's going to taste funky and all that kind of stuff and you know what?
Most of the time I like to do single ingredient juices. Only carrot juice, only apple juice.
Actually, maybe apple-ginger. That's actually really good one, but in any case, hopefully
you've learned today about how to construct your own juicing recipes using your own juicer.
Once again, this is John Kohler with discountjuicers.com. Be sure to visit discoutnjuicers.com/YouTube
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