Alright! This is John Kohler with DiscountJuicers.com today with another exciting episode for ya.
And this episode is titled, “Why You Should Never Juice Greens in a Centrifugal Ejection
Juicer.” I chose the Breville; this is a very popular juicer out there, and what I
want to try and get across to you in this episode is that every juicer has their pros
and their cons. There are things that are good about juicers and there are things that
are bad about juicers. Let’s go ahead and step back for a minute; the juicer is simply
a kitchen appliance, small kitchen appliance or kitchen tool that allows you to process
the most important foods on the entire planet that you should be eating on a regular basis
-- the fresh fruits and the fresh vegetables. In a recent study that just came out a few
weeks ago, it was learned that less than 3% of Americans eat “healthfully” or live
a healthy lifestyle, which not only includes eating proper volumes of fruits and vegetables,
but also getting things like exercise, rest and not smoking and all of these things. So
I mean the juicers are the tools that allow you to unlock the nutrition in the fruits
and vegetables. They’re definitely my favorite things, and as tools – you guys know if
you’re into carpentry or a homeowner that does home repairs – there are some tools
that are better than others for the certain task. So for example, if I’m unscrewing
a Phillips head screw, I’m not going to use a straight slaw because it doesn’t fit
in the screw hole. You can do it – and I’ve done it before – but it’s not the perfect
tool and likewise if you’re relating and you don’t really know about tools, you know
about shoes, right? You’re not going to wear flip-flops to a nice wedding when your
girlfriend is getting married, but if you’re going to the beach, yes, you’re going to
wear your flip-flops. So the right tool for the right job or the right shoe for the right
situation, and that’s the same with the juicers. Not any juicer can do it all; there
are some juicers that definitely come closer than others.
Now, the reason for this is because every juicer works differently. And I want to explain
the Breville and other high-speed centrifugal ejection juicers. How they work is they have
a feed shoot right in the top that you’re going to put your produce in – this happens
to be a 3-inch-wide feed shoot. You put the produce in there and then the produce gets
put into this fast-spinning blade with these sharp little teeth on there. It’s kind of
like a grater if you’re grating your carrots for your salad at night; when you’re grating
your carrots, some small amount of juice will come off and then you have your shredded carrots.
This actually micro-grates the produce you’re putting in; when it micro-grates it, the juice
is released and it goes through this juicing screen and then the pulp gets kicked out the
back. So this style of machine is actually really great, because for things like carrots
and celery and cucumbers or more hard, firm fruits, it’s actually going to do alright,
especially for the hard vegetables – any kind of root vegetables – this thing is
probably going to get one of the highest yields aside from a few other cold press slow juicers
on the market, such as Twin Gears and/or two-stage hydraulic press machines. But, that being
said, that’s a pro. The other pro of this machine is that it’s super-fast. It’s
very fast, so if you don’t have any time to make juice then you’ll hopefully you’ll
at least have time to make this juice. That being said, a big con of this machine, in
my opinion and based on my research, is that it produces a lesser quality juice. Now, vitamins
and minerals are still going to be in the juice for sure, but the most important nutrient
in the juice that I believe, that I want to get into me and hopefully you guys want to
get into you, are the phytonutrients and the phytochemicals. This is what is the right
coloring and the right pigments in the tomatoes, the lycopene, or they have different isocyanates
in broccoli and cabbage and prociferous plants that have been shown in studies to be anti-cancerous.
Basically what they did -- they took a high-speed juicer, a low-speed juicer and also a high-speed
blender, and they blended up broccoli. And they took the outputs of the high-speed juicer,
the blender and the slow juicer with live active cancer cells in a petri dish. And they
looked to see which one of these juices or blended smoothies would be more affective
towards the cancer. And the slow juice had a 50% more overall, because they did six different
types of cancers, overall had a 50% better reduction of the cancer growth or the replication.
So for this reason, that's why I like the slow machines because they're going to preserve
more of the nutrition. And even if this takes you half the time, you're getting half the
cancer fighting ability. And I don't know about you, but I hear some of my friends losing
their lives a couple times a year from cancer. And this is really sad. And is that because
they're not using a slow juicer to make their juices and have cruciferous vegetables every
day? I don’t know because I don't know their specific diets, but I want you guys to be
protected and disease-proof yourself by getting the most amount of nutrition instead of selling
yourself short because you say, "Oh I don't have the time." Well, maybe you've got the
time to get cancer if you're not going to try and do everything you possibly can to
prevent getting it in the first place. I only got into juicing because I had a health condition,
a health crisis in my life. I was put in the hospital, the doctors told me I might not
make it out alive; they only say I made it out through higher powers and I'm here today
spreading what I've learned so that I will not end up in the hospital again. And that's
what I would suggest for you guys to do. Drink some fresh vegetable juice, especially rich
in leafy greens, each and every day.
On the other hand, so that's how this machine works. This machine runs a different way;
instead of a high-spinning, fast-spinning blade, this runs in excess of 10,000 RPMs.
And when that happens, in my opinion, the reason why this is so, not the best, is not
because of the heat -- it really actually doesn't generate a lot of heat based on my
testing -- but what it does do is puts a lot of oxygen into the juice, which basically
oxidizes some of the more fragile nutrients in there. So this, on the other hand, this
spins at a low 80 revolutions per minute instead of 10,000 -- that's multitudes times less
-- and it just basically runs slower and basically crushes and squeezes out the juice in a much
safer and slower way. Now this machine is very effective for juicing things like wheatgrass,
which the lower speed machines will not do. It's also very efficient at juicing greens,
something that will not do as well. This machine is not so good at juicing straight fruits;
although if you're juicing fruits along with your vegetables, it's going to work great.
This is also okay at juicing hard vegetables; it's going to get a good nutrition quality
of the juice, but if you take carrots, for example, on both of these machines, this machine
will win in a sheer yield contest, although likely the carrot juice made in this machine
is going to taste better because it's not going to be aerated and filled with little
micro air bubbles that may give you actually gas, indigestion and some digestive situations
for some people. So that runs a lot slower. So what I'm going to go ahead and do in this
episode is actually we're going to go ahead and juice 10 ounces of greens in both these
machines so you can see how long it takes and also the quantity of juice that each one
makes. And you'll see why you should probably never juice greens in a high-speed machine.
So, first, I think I'll start off with a Breville Juice Fountain Elite. Now, to save time, what
I would encourage you guys to do is take a standard produce bag and line the pulp ejection
catcher with that so you can make clean-up easier. Also, I'll be showing you guys that
in a little bit and show you why I'm lining that up. So we're going to go ahead and line
that and go ahead and set our collection glass right there. And we've got basically two containers
of organic greens by Earthbound. I weighed these out; they're 10.2 ounces each. And this
is Earthbound Farm baby romaine lettuce. So, what we're going to do is open this guy up
and we're going to go ahead and time how long it takes to juice in the Breville. We'll go
ahead and hit start. You guys can see the time there. Now, the best way to juice the
leafy greens in the Breville is not just to turn the machine on and feed them in. I'm
going to go ahead and pre-load all of these greens into the feed shoot and then turn the
machine on and then push them in. this is going to be much better than just juicing
a little bit at a time because if you did that, then it's not going to work as well.
Alright, so we got all the greens preloaded in there. You guys can see we're emptying
out a few bad leaves we took out. Next thing is we're going to go ahead and grab a pusher
and we're going to go ahead and turn this machine on. There are two speeds -- a low
and high -- we're going to go ahead and put it on a low speed so everything doesn't just
fly out instantly. It's spinning on, some of the leaves are automatically getting kicked
out. Now we're just going to go ahead and slowly push these leaves in. alright, so that
was it. Alright, so that was it. We'll go ahead and turn that baby off and take a look
at our time here. That took 2 minutes and 41 seconds for a nice green juice in the high-speed
machine. Next, we're going to go ahead and get set up to juice in the Omega NC800. We
want to check this adjustment here that comes off -- it goes from one to five. We're going
to go ahead and set it on five for juicing leafy greens. We're going to go ahead and
hit a reset on here, hit start, rip this open and get juicing. This machine runs at a much
slower RPM so it's going to be a lot easier to juice this stuff. Just put it right in
there and push it down with the pusher. Now the problem we're having with the Omega NC800
is that there is some lettuce that actually hasn't gotten fully juiced because it's sitting
inside the machine, so what we need to do is we need to push that produce through. So
what I'm going to do is we're going to take some of this juice pulp that is already fairy
dry and we're going to feed that through the machine to help push some of the good lettuce
through there.
Alright, so that's that. It looks like I should tip this guy up a little bit -- make sure
we get all of the juice out of there. And there are still significant amounts of leafy
greens stuck in there. The lettuces are a really soft consistency so that's why that
happened. Let's go ahead and stop the clock. That took about double the time; that was
about 5 minutes to juice the greens -- a couple of extra minutes. Alright, next, we're going
to go ahead and compare the results, so for that, we have two little cups here. And we're
going to go ahead and pour the juice from the Breville -- quite impressive, actually
-- almost 4 ounces of juice. Let's go ahead and check the juice from the NC800; look at
that, even more impressive. So let me go ahead and show you guys the differences in the yields.
Let's go ahead and take a close-up on the yields. And, over on the NC800 side, it looks
like we have maybe about 5 ounces of juice. And over on the Breville side, we don't have
5 ounces, 4 ½ or even 4 ounces; we have maybe a little bit over, maybe like 3.8 ounces.
So you guys just saw the difference in the yields. The Omega NC8-- made approximately
25% more juice than the Breville. Now, does this really mean you should never really juice
greens in your Breville? Well, you know, I want you guys to get greens in any way you
possibly can, including juicing them in your Breville. My goal every day is to get two
pounds of leafy greens in me. And, for those of you guys who buy organic produce, I know
you guys are saying, "John, organic greens; they're not cheap. They can get quite expensive."
So, for that reason alone, you might want to get something like the Omega NC800 because
it is a more efficient juicer. That being said, I know there a lot of you guys that
don't have the time to juice. And you guys saw that the Breville took maybe about two
minutes less, and two minutes is two minutes. But really, think about it. Two minutes for
getting 25% less juice, and not only are you getting 25% less juice in the case of broccoli
for instance; based on a published study, you're going to have 50% less of the cancer
protection from the broccoli juice in the Breville. So, if that's what you want, I just
want to share what the machines do. I started off juicing 20 years ago now with a Juiceman
2 juicer, very similar to the Breville, and I loved it; and I got health benefits from
it. But, knowing what I know now, if I was to do it all over again, I would've got a
low juicer from the get-go to increase the amount of the beneficial nutrients that the
juicer extracts from the produce that I'm eating. I mean, after all, that's the reason
why we're juicing, right? Why not take an extra two minutes to make a higher quality
juice? And not only higher quality, but also a higher quantity juice in a slow juicer -- whatever
slow juicer you may use. So I know there are some of guys that already own Brevilles because
Breville is probably the number one selling juicer brand, and yes, it's a good, decent
machine. But the thing is, when you buy something, you want to defend it. And I know there will
be a lot of comments down below this video on, "You know, John, the Breville is not that
bad." Well, you know, all I'm saying is that there are good, better and best. If you want
to juice a lot of greens, you're not going to want to get a centrifugal ejection [juicer]
because you're going to get 25%, or even less, yield and also not as much nutrition in the
juice. And that's the point of this video. If I'm just juicing carrots, the Breville
is going to win in a yield test, but it's still not going to have the level of phytonutrients
that's not easily demonstratable on a video for guys, unless I start getting active, live
cancer cells and put it under a microscope for you guys so we have to rely on published
studies for that. Anyways, if you guys are looking for a juicer, I do encourage you guys
to support me and my work by making your purchases at DiscountJuicers.com. This allows me to
make these videos for guys comparing the juicers side-by-side so you'll know what happens because
there are so many manufacturers' reviews online that say, "Oh, the Breville is great." And,
okay, it's good in some situations, but not every situation. And knowing what I know now,
as I said, I would always go with a slow juicer. Now, I'm not a big fan of the NC800. I like
that Omega VSG843; that's my favorite machine. I do have a video comparing the NC800 to the
Omega VSG843; I'll put a link down below for that video. And your support and your purchases
at DiscountJuicer.com allows me to continue to make these videos, which I enjoy doing.
And I really want to educate the people about the power of the fruits and vegetables, and
the power of these machines that allow you to concentrate the volume of fruits and vegetables
you're eating. So you know, I wasn't going to sit there and eat 20 ounces of the lettuce
in a salad, but now, I can simply drink about nine ounces of juice and get the majority
of the nutrition from those leafy greens that I may not have gotten into me otherwise. And
that's really the power of the juicing. Also, be sure to check out my past episodes; I have
over 450 episodes now comparing all of the different juicers and having videos so that
you guys can select the proper and best juicer for you because that's the most important
thing to me is that you get the juicer that you will not only use every day because it's
easy to clean -- like this machine, in my opinion, is easier to clean than that machine.
This one takes me about a minute and a half; this one might take me maybe three minutes
because there's less screen area and whatnot.
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