Alright, this is John Kohler with discountjuicers.com.
Got a question the other day about juicing fruits.
'Hey, John,' you know, 'can we juice fruits?
What juicer is goof to juice fruits?
Can I juice the rind of fruits?
Should I juice fruit?
Should I juice the seeds of fruits?'
And you know what?
This video's going to answer all your questions about juicing fruits.
So, the question is should I even juice fruits with my juicer?
Well, in my opinion, juicers are not the best appliance to process fruits.
In my opinion, blenders are better appliances to process fruits and I have a couple reasons
for this.
Number 1, the juicer is basically designed to juice things with hard fiber.
So, things like ac carrot, things like greens, things like celery and beets, things like
that, and when you have and you're trying to juice fruits, it's a lot different consistency.
I can literally take grape in my hand and squeeze the grape and literally squeeze out
the juice, but I couldn't take a carrot and squeeze out the juice out of the carrot unless
I was Arnold Schwarzenegger or something like that.
So, that's where juicers really come into to extract the nutrition, the nutrients, the
liquid, liquid gold, from that, you know, those vegetables, and put it into your glass
if you can juice is and while we can easily the nutrition in the grape or other fruits
by literally chewing it as we put it in, we chew and the juices release into our mouths
to give the great taste sensation, it tastes so good.
Try to do the same things with a carrot.
I mean, you'll put the carrot in your mouth, it'll taste kind of dry and gritty and, you
know what?
Not so good, but if you juice carrot juice, you know, to me it tastes really good, it's
really sweet.
So, that's really the benefit of the juicer.
So, can you juice fruits?
Yes, you can.
Some juicers will do better than others and some fruits are more conducive to juicing
than others.
Alright, this John Kohler with discountjuicers.com.
Today I have a special treat for you.
I'm going to talk about juicing fruit.
So, we had a question the other day about juicing fruits.
You know, 'Hey, John, can I juice fruit?
Should I juice fruits?
What juicer is good to juice fruits?
Tell me about juicing fruits.'
So, now we're going to talk about making fruit juice cocktails or mixes.
So, can you mix different fruits when you're making juices, you know?
What's the best?
Should I do it?
Well, you know what?
You can do anything you want in your kitchen, making all kinds of crazy creations you want,
mixing apples and oranges and grapes and watermelon, all in one juice, but let me tell you something.
If you mix all these things all in one juice, you know, you may not digest it that well.
You may get some indigestion and bloating because each fruit digests a little bit differently
in our bodies at, you know, different times.
So, for me, I listen to what Jay Cordage, the juice man, says.
He says basically the only things you should be juicing, you know, with your vegetables,
are things like apples and pears, or even Asian pears.
They're fairly neutral and you can juice those with some vegetables like a green juice, for
example, but other things I tend to just juice them by themselves.
The juice man also said melons alone or leave them alone.
So, you know, when I'm juicing melons, I will juice melons by themselves.
So, for the most part, I'm what's called the monofruit juicer, if I do juice my fruits.
I like to only juice piece of produce at a time.
Does that mean you should do that or you shouldn't do that?
Well, you know, I'll leave that up to you.
In your kitchen, you can do whatever you want but I encourage you to, you know, try to just
juice one things at a time.
If I'm juicing citrus fruits, for example, I'll actually just stay in the citrus category.
So, maybe I'll make a, you know, tangerine lemon juice, but I won't juice tangerines
with my apples, although very rarely I'll juice, you know, carrots with orange.
That's a pretty neat drink, too.
So, you know, it just depends on you, what you want to do, but I encourage you to, you
know, only mix apples, pears, and Asian pears with your vegetables juices and with the other
fruits, you know, I don't tend to mix them a lot, but you can if you want.
Alright, so now we're going to talk about the differences between canned and bottled
juices versus make your own fresh juice.
Number one is the consistency.
As you can see, this is really liquid, and, you know, if you juice the same things with
the juicer as is in this juice here, it's basically grape juice, apple juice, raspberry
juice, blackberry juice, and blueberry juice, you now, it's going to come out this thin
in this juicer.
It's going to be a lot thicker and rich.
We can almost call it a nectar.
So, that's one of the differences.
It's going to be a lot thicker when you make it at home.
Another thing that's going to be different is it's going to be a lot more nutritious
when you make it at home.
These are made in big industrial factories and, you know, they basically pasteurize the
juice.
To make this juice, they're not using a juicer like this probably.
They're probably steam distilling the juice.
Literally they heat up the juicer and get all the essences of the juice.
It's called a steam juicer.
It's how the easiest way to do it, people that do canning and stuff know all about steam
juicers, but you're going to lose all the enzymes and some of the nutrients when you
do that.
Also, some of these juices, you know, some of the things they do is, I mean, this says
100% juice in there, and it is 100% juice, but, you know, some juicers may add, you know,
sugars and things to sweeten it.
This is actually really 100% juice, but it is still made with concentrates and they do
have some, you know, natural preservative in there.
So, when you make it at home, you're not going to get any of that.
You're going to have real juice, and if it's too thick for you, you know what?
Just add a little but of water.
So, making fresh juices at home is, in my opinion, much better than buying bottles juices,
but it's always good, better, best, in my opinion.
You know, definitely making fresh fruit juices at your home is the best.
This is probably better than drinking a, you know, soda, for example.
So, you know, we're going to meet you where you're at and hopefully if you buy a juicer
you can make your own fresh juices at home.
So, this is John Kohler with discountjuicers.com.
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