Alright, this is John Kohler with discountjuicers.com and today we're going to answer the age-old
question.
Is it better to juice or is it better to blend?
One of the questions I've been getting a lot lately is, you know, 'is it better to juice
or blend?
Should I buy a juicer or should I buy a blender?
What should I buy or what should I do?'
Well, let me tell you.
I, in my life, do both.
I blend sometimes, and I juice sometimes, and let me tell you a secret.
You want to blend your juice whole, for the most part.
I do juice a couple apples here and there, but I tend to blend my fruits, but I juice
my vegetables, especially things like carrots and kale and celery and other things that,
you know, really are hard to digest for us.
Our stomachs are not built like a cow, for example, you know, where it has 3 stomachs
and it regurgitates its food and it chews and chews and most Americans don't chew they're
food enough.
They take, you know, 2 chews and they swallow their food whole and when you do that you
don't get optimal digestion.
So, that's where a machine, such as a juicer, which would basically liberate the juice form
the fiber and, you know, the nutrients from the fiber and you would drink the nutrients,
you know, drinking the juice is just drinking a straight influx of nutrition into your body
that's easily absorbable.
Now, when you blend, you're leaving the fiber and the juice together as one.
Now, you do separate it a little but and it gets, you know, chopped up, so it's easier
to digest than eating it whole.
So, it'd be like this.
I think, you know, juicing will definitely give you the best benefit 'cause it's easier
to digest, especially if you're having some maybe digestive issues and aren't able to
digest foods that well.
Definitely blending is good, too, 'cause it gives you the whole food, but, you know what?
Don't forget about eating things whole, you know.
I could take a carrot out to here, and, you know, chew it up, and, you know, nature provided
us with these great teeth to chew our foods and if we chew our foods in a mush, we're
kind of making, you know, a blended mixture in our mouths or even juicing it because when
we mix it in our mouth, you know, I could chew it up so much and then just swallow the
liquid or I could chew it up and then just swallow everything.
So, I'm swallowing the juice now and it's pretty good.
So, let me show you how it works, you know, and I'll talk a little bit more about it while
I'm doing it.
I got a 5-pound bag here of Bunny Love baby organic carrots.
Now, the Bunny Love carrots are my favorite carrot to juice in the whole wide world.
They're some of the sweetest carrots to juice.
So, why don't we do the easy one first?
We're going to dump out 2.5 pounds of carrots in the blender.
So, we're going to dump that in the blender, we're going to put the lid on, we're going
to start the blender up, were going to crank it up to high, 'cause it takes a bit of power
to basically turns carrots into puree and that's what you're doing.
You're turning carrots into puree, 100% carrots.
Now, see, the company that sells this blender, the VitaMix company would like to tell you
it's a totally juice.
I think that's hogwash because it's not a total juice because in definition juice means
liquid and with this there's fiber and liquid.
So, total juice, that might be a stretch.
It is definitely like a baby carrot puree, like you make for babies, literally.
One of the...trick I have to use the pusher because it's a lot of fiber, not a lot of
liquid and I blender requires liquid to work.
Alright, so we're done blending here, or making our, as VitaMix would call it, total juice,
and as you can see, our total juice comes out a little bit it's pretty dang solid and,
you know, tastes like mashed up carrots.
It's like baby food, remember when you were a baby?
So, I wouldn't really call it a juice, and, you know, when I was blending it up, I just
thought of one of them main benefits of juicing is that it allows you to basically take the
nutrition, for example, out of the 2.5 pounds of carrots without all the fiber.
So, I mean, if, whether we blend it up or eat it whole, it's pretty much the same.
As long as we chew really well, we're going to get this result, but the thing is, our
stomachs aren't that big.
You know, I don't know if I would lie to sit here and eat 2.5 pounds of carrots, but I
probably could if I really wanted to, but, you know what?
That's going to fill me up and I'll be full.
Now that may be a good ting if you're on a weight loss program or something but we're
not going to get optimal nutrition out of the carrots.
So, say we put the other 2.5 carrots in the juicer and we're going to separate the fiber
from the juice and the juice is basically all the nutrition except for the fiber.
Now, fiber is a necessary nutrient in your diet and you should be getting fiber sometime
during your day, and that's why earlier I recommended to, you know, blend your fruits,
because fruits have fiber, and when you blend your fruits whole, you keep the fiber in with
the juice and the fiber actually regulates the absorption of the sugar into your bloodstream.
So, if you're juicing straight fruits, you're getting like, you know, sugar water.
I mean, sugar water that's a lot better than any coke or anything like that or soda, but
still it's sugar water.
So, it's always, I want you to remember, it's always good, better, best, good, better, best.
The options are drinking soda or a fresh made juice out of fruits, hey, you know, you're
going in the right direction, you're moving in the right direction, you're making positive
changes in your life, and if you need the sweetness, hey, that's great.
Maybe better than that would be to blend your fruits in the blender.
Maybe better than that would be to make some fresh vegetables juices.
Vegetables, epically the dark leafy greens, really important, have a lot of nutrition
and minerals and chlorophyll, so many things that are good for us, antioxidants, that they're
doing all kind of research on, They did research, you know that showed broccoli sprouts and,
you know, prevent cancer and that's a calciferous vegetable.
So, the calciferous vegetables are really good for us.
So, (unclear) therapy, they heal people, or have healed people, from cancer for many years,
and, you know, they don't recommend total juice, or using the VitaMix to blend things
up.
They actually recommend juicing in their program and there's a reason for that because when
you take out he fiber, the nutrition is easier accessed by the vilae in your intestines and
you can get more nutrition quicker and as we know, we all need more nutrition.
Most people don't eat enough servings of fresh fruits and vegetables in a day.
So, that's why I think, you know, juicing has a little but of the upper hand, especially
with the vegetables, with the fruits, I definitely tend to blend more, plus, you know, I don't
know, I don't know about you, but I don't really think about eating this.
It's not too appetizing.
So, let's go ahead and start juicing.
We're going to juice the same 2.5 pounds of carrots.
Literally we're just going to take the carrots and we're going to push them into the juicer
and you'll see what we get is a lot different than what the VitaMix gave us or the blender
gave us.
Number one, it's a lot quieter, so it's easier on your ears and number 2, it's separating
the fiber.
So, not we have fiber coming out.
We're using actually a green star juicer today.
It's one of the most efficient juicers.
It makes really, really dry pulp and we're just pushing the carrots through.
Now, it does take some downward strength to basically push the carrots into the juicer.
You're basically pushing the carrots into 2 gears that're spinning around much like
a transmission in a car.
I don't think definitely blending or juicing either one is best, but we should do both.
Any way we can get more fresh fruits and vegetables in our diet is the key.
So, whether you're juicing, whether you're blending, or whether you're using these juicers
and chewing really well, you know, at least 50 times to turn it into mush, you know, we're
going to be a lot better off and it's not really worth it to basically say, 'Oh, one's
better than the other,' you know.
We should be doing all 3, in my opinion.
You can see here, now, and I'm going to drink this here really quick.
It's over full and I'm actually pretty thirsty and you wan tot drink the juice right after
you make it.
Now, to me, the juice tastes a lot better than, you know, getting this stuff, which
tastes like a mush.
Tastes like I'm a baby or something like that.
So, here's the juice, here's the fiber out of the juicer and here's the juice and fiber
I the blender, but here's a thought.
You could drink the juice now, and we still need fiber in our diet.
So, you know, fiber basically is like the broom that goes through us and keeps us clean
on the inside and we need it.
So, what e could do is, you know, you could take this fiber and maybe mix some things
into there and eat it for your salad at night.
Now, I don't know that I would do that.
I would probably eat a salad at night, maybe sprinkle a little bit of this on, you know,
for flavor, but you wan tot drink your juice and then, you know, if you want to eat the
fiber, use it separately, later, making some kind of, you know, different crackers or breads
out of it, or, you know, feed it to your dogs, definitely good fiber for them, too.
So, hopefully I've covered the question, is it better to juice or to blend, you know,
with this video.
Hopefully you've learned a little bit and hopefully you'll be more open to both juicing
a blending because both of them have pros and cons and, you know, and the one thing
that everybody would agree on is that it's defiantly best to eat more fruits and vegetables,
however you can get hem in, where they're juiced here, blended here, or eating them
whole like I was earlier, chewing your food really well.
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