This is John Kohler with DiscountJuicers.com.
Today we have another exciting episode for you.
And this is the one you guys have been waiting for.
I know you guys—many of you guys want to juice leafy green vegetables.
I’m sitting in my garden here and there’s a whole bunch of perennial tree collard, purple
tree collards behind me, and as you may know, greens are one of the most nutrient dense
foods on the planet.
What does nutrient dense mean?
That means they have the most nutrition and the least amount of calories, including phytochemicals,
antioxidants, and phytonutrients, and minerals that are really good for us.
So in any case, we’re gonna share with you guys two different juicers that will juice
greens and go over which of the ones that will actually do better for you.
So in my opinion, the best juicers for leafy greens are the single auger style machines.
They have a single auger.
Those, for a matter of fact, were basically derived from the standard wheatgrass juicer
that only juices wheatgrass.
Such at the Omega 8006 and the Omega 4, which is identical except white in color, are horizontal
single auger which is derived from the standard wheatgrass juicer, the dedicated model, but
it will also juice other things.
Now it’s newer, bigger brother on the market nowadays is the Omega VRT.
The Omega VRT 330HD is what I have here today, and the Omega VRT 350HD.
And those are vertical single auger, so today we’re gonna find out which juicer juices
straight leafy greens the best.
We have a pound here of power greens mix, which is organic chard, kale, and spinach,
and these are baby leaves.
So whenever juicing leafy greens, I encourage you guys to juice the baby greens, so the
smaller leaves instead of the bigger ones.
They’re gonna juice better, they’re more tender, the juicer’s gonna be able to extract
the juice better out of them, and they’re probably a little bit more nutritious than
older, mature leaves.
In any case, I guess, without further ado, let’s get into this juice off.
So we’re gonna go ahead and take the lids off both these containers here.
And we’re gonna feed all these leafy greens into each machine.
Now before I do, I’m gonna give you the caveat—I know which one, in my mind, is
gonna win, because I’ve done this before—maybe not on the video—but it’s the Omega 8006,
and that is because if you’re juicing straight greens, which most of you guys actually won’t
want to do, this is kind of more advanced topic because if you juice straight greens
and drink it, it’s really strong.
It’s kind of like drinking a wheatgrass shot and you may have a reaction to it, let’s
just put it that way.
So in most cases, you’re gonna juice leafy greens with other vegetables like carrots,
like celery, like cucumbers, and probably even add some apple, maybe some ginger and
some lemon in there to make I taste better.
So if I was to duplicate this test with some of those other things, then the results are
gonna be different.
And I do have other videos showing juicing green juices with both these machines.
And each of these machines, as I’ll point out, has their pros and cons, and we’ll
go over that after we start juicing.
So let’s get into this juice off.
I’m gonna turn on the Omega 8006 and turn on the Omega VRT.
Now these are both low RPM juicers.
They run at eighty RPM, so they turn very slow, and as you can hear, they’re relatively
quiet, unlike some of their high speed juicers.
Now the high speed juicers are called centrifugal ejection juicers, such as the Bevel, and those
style machines that you can find as department stores, those don’t tend to juice leafy
greens well at all.
They’ll actually—you’ll put in a leafy green, it’ll kick the whole thing out and
maybe get a drip of juice.
But these guys are probably one of the most efficient style juicers to juice leafy greens.
So we’re just gonna go ahead and feed some of these leafy greens in the machine, and
as you’ll notice, I’m just stuffing the feed chute full of the leafy greens.
And the only thing you want to use to push the leafy greens into the juicer is the pusher.
So I’m happening to use the 8006 pusher in the Omega VRT here that works.
But other than the Omega VRT pusher and the Omega 8006 pusher, don’t use any other pusher
in the machine—or don’t put a butter knife, your fingers, or anything down the feed chute.
So as you can see here, we’re putting these guys in here and you can see we’re getting
some juice out this side and some pulp and some juice fibers out that side.
Let’s go head and continue juicing with the Omega VRT so you guys can actually see
how long it takes me.
So we’re just gonna feed in one handful at a time here.
Now this feed chute is probably about twice the size as the Omega 8006 sitting next door.
So you can shove more into the feed chute, and there’s a bigger auger, which takes
a larger chuck out of the produce to juice.
So a little bit quicker.
Now we’re not just cramming stuff down as fast as we can cram it in, we’re kind of
paying attention to this outlet here.
And as you can see, the produce is slowly coming out of the outlet, the pulp, and we’re
getting the juice over on this side.
Now one of the problems with every juicer is that it will create some level of foam.
And that’s completely normal.
If you want to reduce the foam when juicing leafy greens, juice it with something else.
Like juice a pile of leafy greens, and then a carrot, and then a piece of apple.
And that’ll reduce the foam.
The foam is caused by actually—there’s airspace in the auger because the leafy greens
don’t fill all the airspace up.
There’s more air added into the juice there.
Well we’ve juice so much, it looks like we’re gonna overflow our catch up.
I only put a one cup catch cup because I knew we were gonna make one cup of green juice,
but we are making a lot of foam, so we’re gonna have to go ahead and transfer over to
a two cup collection cup here.
And now we’re gonna continue juicing.
So far, so good in the Omega VRT.
As you can see, the pulp’s coming out and it is a little bit wet still, but once again,
I don’t recommend the Omega VRT for juicing straight greens like this.
It would be best if we juiced a handful of greens and then a piece of carrot.
And then it would work actually much better.
But it’s still doing alright.
If you do want to juice wheatgrass or other kinds of sprouts, be sure and check my other
videos, because I do have comparison videos showing these two guys going head to head
with wheatgrass and also with sunflower sprouts.
One pound, actually.
So this is doing amazingly well, and I want to actually also talk about now I am using
the baby leafy greens.
So these ones are much less fibrous that hard leafy greens that if you bought a big bunch
of kale with the long stocks.
Now if you do get those, it’s very important that you chop those stocks up into like eighth
inch pieces for the best results, and I encourage you guys to watch my video on Omega VRT Best
Practices to see how to properly use the Omega VRT, because there is a special technique
you have to use to guarantee your optimal success when juicing in the Omega VRT.
So we’re getting how to the last bit of juicing here in the Omega VRT.
We’re almost down to the rest of the leafy greens in our container here.
Gonna go ahead and drop those in and shove those down the feet chute.
Now what you’re gonna notice, if you look in the feed chute, there’s gonna be some
leafy greens still stuck in there when you’re done turning the machine off and this is because
the way the Omega VRT works is that it needs some hard fibrous material to actually take
in to push through everything in there.
Now when using something soft, like the leafy greens, it really doesn’t, you know, full
get to push everything through.
So there may be some leftover greens in there.
This can be alleviated by actually juicing a carrot—small piece of carrot at the final
stage to get all the leafy green juice out and to leave some of that carrot pulp in there
instead of the valuable leafy greens.
But once again, we’re just doing a test with the leafy greens, so we’re gonna go
ahead and turn this guy off, and let this hang out and see how much yield we got.
Next, let’s go ahead and juice in the Omega 8006.
Gonna turn that guy on and just grab these leaves here and shove this down the feet chute.
Now the feed chute is considerably smaller, so this is gonna take me more time to feed
the greens.
I can’t shove as many in there I literally have to push each mouthful of the greens in
the Omega 8006 to get them to juice properly.
One of the features I like about the Omega VRT is if you put a handful of greens and
then a piece of carrot or an apple, it’s almost self-feeding so you don’t have to
use the pusher.
On the Omega 8006, you’ll always have to use a pusher, pretty much no matter what you’re
juicing—unless you dice it up into like question inch sized cubes, but nobody wants
to do that.
So let’s go ahead and continue.
I have to take smaller handfuls of greens to shove in this little smaller feed chute
here.
And then press in to the Omega 8006 Nutrition Center.
So this is working much better, much less foam, and you can see some of the pulp coming
out the end there.
Now I want to talk about—in this mix, I see some baby Swiss chard, some spinach leaves,
and some kale, including the dinosaur kale or lactation kale.
And once again, the leafy greens straight drink like this I don’t recommend unless
you’ve been juicing for a while.
You may get violent…eruptions.
And we’ll leave that to your imagination.
But what I want to talk about now is a question I often get: “John, what do you think about
drinking only kale juice?”
Like day in, day out.
Well, I think that kale is a great food—also are collards and spinach and watercress—but
I think you shouldn’t just focus on one food because it’s the best.
I think all the different types of greens have many different nutrients in them and
phytochemicals that I believe are very important.
Plus, also, they have some naturally occurring toxins in them so that the bugs don’t eat
the plant or the creatures when these plants are from don’t each them en masse.
So for this reason, I believe you guys should actually rotate the leafy greens you’re
eating.
So if you’re juicing kale today, maybe juice some Swiss chard tomorrow, do some romaine
lettuce hearts tomorrow, juice some watercress the next day, juice some bok choy the next
day.
Juice some broccoli leaves the next day.
I could go on and on about all the different kinds of leafy greens, but keep doing each
kind of leafy green every day and switch it up so every day, you’re have a complete
different kind.
This will make your juice taste good, but also give your body all the different nutrition
it needs because if may need some phytochemicals that are in bok choy that aren’t in kale.
So this is going relatively well, I can actually look down and see the pulp coming out.
It’s actually significantly drier than the Omega VRT, and as you cans see, it’s creating
much less foam.
So I want to talk a second about, you know, “John, should I juice organic or non-organic?”
So I always encourage you guys to juice organic grown produce whenever possible, because it
doesn’t have the pesticide residue, the herbicide residue, and potentially fungicide
residue that conventionally grown produce can have.
In addition, there have been studies that show organically grown food is actually more
nutritious—but in my opinion also, another reason to support organic agriculture is because
conventional agriculture uses lots of manmade chemicals that may be harming the earth and
it’s environment, in my opinion.
So when you’re voting with your dollars, you vote for organic, you’re voting for
a natural world where there’s not these manmade chemicals putting into the earth and
polluting it.
So yes if may cost you guys more money, but I think it’s definitely worth it.
Another thing I want to encourage you guys to do is actually, instead of even buying
produce, take yourself out of the commerce system and grow your own food.
Growing your own food is very simple.
You grow food anywhere.
I know you might be thinking “John, I live in the middle of New York City in an apartment.”
Yes, you could even grow some food in there.
Look up the Sprout man, Steve Meyerowitz, who used to live in New York City or a small
apartment and grew sprouts in the city.
So you could grow flats of wheatgrass or flats of sunflower greens in your apartment that
you could even juice right up.
And those are some delicious ones to juice.
So as you can see, this is working much betters.
It’s taking little bit more time, but it’s still going really well and man this pulp
is significantly drier.
Gonna go ahead and continue juicing in the Omega 8006.
Now let’s compare these machines, besides just the greens we’re juicing today, on
something like pineapples.
On something like pineapples, the Omega 8006 will juice pineapples, and I have videos of
juicing pineapples in the 8006, but it doesn’t work quite as well in the Omega VRT.
In general, the Omega VRT juices fruits better, than the Omega 8006, but the 8006 juices greens
more.
I wish there was a perfect juicer that juiced everything the best, and then I’d have to
stop making videos, I’d say “Hey, buy that one, it’s the best.”
But until that time, I’ll continue making videos for you guys to actually show you guys
how each machine works so that you could choose the best one for you.
If you want to juice only leafy greens, after doing this video, it’s quite obvious that
the Omega 8006 is juicing them the best, so if you want to juice leafy greens or herbs
or other medicinal herbs, the 8006 is what I’d recommend over this guy.
Especially for sprouts, this guy’s gonna do much better also.
But on the other hand, if you just want to mix some leafy greens in and you want to juice
fruits and a wider variety of stuff, then I think that’s where the Omega VRT comes
it.
Because it’s more versatile in my opinion.
On another hand, the Omega 8006 is a little more versatile in other ways, because it’s
not only called the Omega 8006 juicer, it’s called the Omega 8006 Nutrition Center, and
it allows you to make things like nut butters, grind your coffee, make Sauer kraut, and even
make frozen banana sorbet, which is just frozen bananas put through here.
Once you taste that, you’ll get off your ice cream and eating more fresh fruits and
vegetables is much better than eating all those processed foods.
So I still got some more leafy greens to juice here.
Continuing to plug away at this.
What I want to talk about next is actually the warrantee.
Many juicers have a short warrantee, especially if you go down to your local big box or department
store, they may have a short ninety-day or one year warrantee.
And to me, a juicer is an investment in the most important thing you got.
Can anybody think what that is?
[Mimics Jeopardy theme] It’s your health!
Your health, in my opinion, is the most important thing you got that you own free and clear
right now as you’re watching this—hopefully you’re alive still.
I don’t think there’s any zombies out there yet.
And I want to encourage you guys to do the healthy things that are gonna keep your health.
I know because when I was in my twenties, I literally almost lost my life the doctors
told me I wasn’t gonna walk out of the hospital—or I might not make it out of the hospital.
Luckily I’m here today to share this message of juicing and also of health to you.
And what I’ve learned over all these years of doing this healthy stuff is it’s really
simple.
Health is really simple.
Eat the best foods that will nourish your body, which are simply fruits and vegetables.
And that’s why I like these juicing machines so much because they allow you to eat more
of these things that are some of the best things on earth for you.
Like the greens.
I might be able to eat a salad or a pound of greens every night—which most nights
I do—but juicing it in this way will turn the one pound of greens into a few cups of
juice.
Alright, we’re down to the last little bit of greens here.
Once again, these are the power greens by Earthbound Farms.
One of the most inexpensive places to get the Earthbound Farm greens is at your local
Costco or Sam’s Club or warehouse club store they often sell them for around four dollars,
depending on where you live, a pound.
So that’s the last of the leafy greens there and, wow, this is an interesting test here.
That’s about done juicing and as you can see, there’s significantly much less foam.
Let’s go ahead and move these tow containers out so you can see these head to head.
Wow!
So the Omega VRT out of one pound of greens made one cup of green juice.
So that’s quite admirable.
One pound of carrots make about one cup of carrot juice.
But the Omega 8006 made about one and a quarter cups of juice with much less foam.
So you can see that right there.
So definitely, it’s a clear win for the Omega 8006, and its little brother the 8004,
which is identical to the 8006.
It’ll cost you less money, but it’s in white instead of the chrome plated plastic
color.
Next, I’m gonna enjoy these straight up leafy greens for you.
Mm! actually, that’s not too bad!
So yes, juicing the baby greens, far better than juicing the larger greens.
It’s gonna taste sweeter, taste delicious, and if you want to juice straight greens,
you want to choose the Omega 8006.
Now if you want to juice a wide variety of stuff, the Omega VRT might be a better choice.
Be sure to watch my videos where I compare these guys head to head juicing other things
that you can learn more about how these juicers work before you buy them.
So hopefully you guys enjoyed this video with this one pound of greens juice off.
Once again, my name is John Kohler with DiscountJuicers.com.
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