Alright!
This is John Kohler with discountjuicers.com.
Today we have another exciting episode for you and what we’re gonna do in this episode
is I’m gonna my morning breakfast for you guys and share with you guys what I’m making
and the appliances I’m using to make it.
As much as I love juicers and think juicing is superior over blending and check my video.
I put a link down below to the video where I put six reasons why juicing is better than
blending but I still use a blender in my life plenty.
Trust me, I use both these guys almost everyday in my single life so that I can get more fresh
fruits and vegetables in me.
I mean this is completely and utterly important in today’s world.
To me the juicer or the blender it’s not a magical appliance you know from the God’s
or anything.
It’s simply a tool.
It’s like a screwdriver a hairdryer a car, which is a tool to get you from point A to
point B. You know it’s like other any tool in the world that allows us and helps us out
to get more fresh fruits and vegetables into us.
You know the juicer basically concentrates the nutrients in the vegetable, puts it in
it’s juice form, and then takes out the fiber so that we get all the nutrients in
there including soluble fiber into us and the blender does the same and the blender
also keeps the insoluble fiber as well.
And so you know sometimes I like to juice things, sometimes I like to blend things and
sometimes, in this situation, I like to do both.
So I guess what we’re gonna do first is we’re gonna go and use my oranges in the
Omega VSJ843 juicer.
This is a vertical slow juicer and this is my favorite juicer to juice most fresh fruits
because it does such an amazing job and gets the pulp really dry.
Now, we’re not just gonna juice the oranges like get orange juice like you would find
in a carton or at a store or even a bottle on a shelf.
What they literally do is they literally take the orange, they’ll cut the orange in half
and literally what they’re gonna do is they're gonna basically take the orange and they’re
gonna squeeze the orange juice right.
And this is what they call orange juice if you buy it in the store but to me that’s
what I call orange water cause when we’re gonna juice oranges, and you can only do this
if you have your own fruit and vegetable juicer at home, we’re literally gonna go ahead
and very carefully just cut off the orange color of the fruit here to reveal that nice
white pithy rind.
And it’s this rind on the orange that is full of nutrition.
I mean you guys may know that most of the nutrients in an apple is where?
Near the skin.
And same thing with the orange.
Now you do wanna cut off the orange color cause they are indigestible naturally occurring
chemicals in there that may give you gas and bloating and funky burps and all this kind
of stuff.
You don’t wanna eat that but we do wanna eat as much of that white pith that we can
possibly get.
So here’s what I’ve trimmed down and we’re gonna juice that with not only the orange
but also the white pith so we’re gonna get a nice thick and frothy juice that’s not
quite as sweet because it has some of the fiber and the nutrients in the pith here.
So I guess without further adieu we’re gonna go ahead and shave down these oranges and
we’re gonna come back at you and we’re gonna go ahead and juice them on up.
We just got done pealing all the orange peels off my six different oranges here and before
I even start juicing my oranges I always wanna encourage you guys to either eat your fruit
whole or blend them.
This way you get all the fiber including the soluble and insoluble fiber.
You know sometimes I like to juice my fruits because I have some abundance and I wanna
be able to use them up and when you juice it you basically concentrate the nutrition
basically you know I could probably sit here and eat six oranges but to me it’s a lot
easier juice to drink the orange juice out of six oranges and literally get the majority
of the nutrition out of the six oranges except for some of the insoluble fiber.
So I think it’s best to eat our fruits whole blend them, but I think on the vegetables
that’s where juicing really comes in handy because our bodies are not meant to digest
you know and break down the hard cellulose in different vegetables and as well as the
leafy greens.
So in general I recommend eating your fruits blending them and in the vegetables probably
best to you know juice them up or minimally chew them really good and you know sometimes
I’ll also blend them.
So anyways, when you're choosing fruits to juice and if you are using a vertical slow
juicer while these juicers are probably my top pick for a juicer that juices fruits in
one pass, a few things you need to be aware of.
Number 1, when you select your fruit make sure you get heavy fruit for it’s size.
If it’s light it could be old, dried out, shriveled up, not a lot of juice in there.
Number 2, you want a nice hard and firm fruit you know.
If it’s nice and soft and smushy you know it’s gonna make more of a mush than a juice
in the slow juicer so you wanna get a nice hard and firm one.
They're gonna juice you know much better.
Of course things like a hard and firm banana, that’s never really gonna juice there’s
not enough water content in there for it to happen right.
And just recently I did juice a papaya in the Omega VSJ so look for the video on that
and actually that went quite well.
So let’s go ahead and turn this VSJ on.
I like this because it is actually so quiet.
It runs at a low and slow 40 RPMs.
We’re just gonna go ahead and cut this orange up and leaving all the pith on and yeah even
leaving the seeds in there.
Drop that in there and the juicer’s literally auto-feeding.
It’s gonna accept those pieces of oranges in and as you guys could see we’re instantly
getting some good old OJ out the front and we’re getting all the pulp out the side
there.
So the next thing I’m gonna do is just I’m juicing all these oranges real fast and we’ll
be back at you when I’m done.
So I’ve juiced a total of 5 navel oranges in the Omega VSJ843 juicer.
I do recommend if you are gonna juice oranges in this fashion and peel them like this I
recommend you and encourage you guys to get the navel oranges.
They generally have more white pith than the Valencia’s that are actually better to juice
on one of those hand reamers or on one of the juice presses you know to get the orange
water.
Once again you’re getting a total orange juice in there, including all the nutrients
right under the skin of that white pith.
Let’s go ahead and very quickly and easily juice this last orange here and as you guys
could see we’ve got 20 ounces of juice here and like this pulp is actually quite dry.
I can take it and literally it’s just squeezing pulp out of my fingers.
There’s no juice so this is actually quite impressive.
You know other vertical juicers and other horizontal juicers may not do it as well as
the VSJ based on my testing.
So we’re gonna go ahead and put the second to last orange in there and here’s the last
piece going right in.
Next thing we’re gonna do with this is finishing up we’re gonna go ahead and use my handy
dandy Vitamix turbo-blend VS.
Now this is the Vitamix I recommend to you guys if you guys wanna make healthy dietary
changes in your life for a few reasons.
Number 1, you’re gonna get a nice DVD that teaches you how to make healthy raw foods
in the Vitamix.
In addition number 2, you’re gonna get a hemp nut milk bag to allow you to make nut
milks in the Vitamix.
And number 3 most importantly, you’re gonna get a nice thick over 100 page recipe booklet
with vegetarian, vegan, and raw vegan recipes.
No other Vitamix comes with this particular book and this is the healthiest book that
will come with any Vitamix.
A lot of the Vitamix come with you know a lot of you know processed junk foods and animal
products that I don’t encourage you guys to eat that are not quite as healthy as the
package that you’re gonna get with the turbo-blend VS.
Most Vitamix’s have a similar amount of power on them so you’re pretty much gonna
get the same consistency no matter what model you buy.
And what I’m using today instead of the standard 64 ounce craft that’s actually
really nice and tall I prefer this handy dandy 48 ounce craft which is a smaller craft that
is available separately that actually you could stick in the Vitamix and now this will
fit underneath your countertop because with the 64 ounce it sticks up too much.
Let’s go ahead and turn off the VSJ over here.
And also this is a little bit easier to get in because it’s not quite as deep.
It’s a little more fat and squatty.
You could get in there and clean it a lot easier.
So what were simply gonna do in this recipe today is we’re gonna go ahead and take our
nearly 24 ounces of orange juice but we’re not gonna pour it all in.
We’re maybe gonna pour I don’t know just enough to put it in the bottom and man this
is nice and thick orange juice because we got all the nutrition from that white pith
in there.
We’re gonna go ahead and pour maybe like half of it in there.
Then we’re gonna take our strawberries and while you could put strawberries with the
greens in there and everything, you know I’m gonna go ahead and cut those off there and
we’re just gonna drop all these strawberries in.
Now you might be wondering “John, why didn’t you just juice the strawberries man you’re
making extra work for yourself yeah you’re doing extra steps by having to you know blending
strawberries up”.
Well, there’s a few reasons for this.
Number 1, especially if you’re using organic strawberries, quite expensive unless you have
like your own strawberry field to pick out off.
And when you juice strawberries you get a lot of delicious strawberry pulp out in the
basket here and some of the flavoring in the juice so you could do that but in my opinion
it’s a waste to juice you know berries, strawberries, blackberries, you know boysenberries,
blueberries, you get very little juice out of it.
You know something like oranges we could taste this pulp here.
I mean we’ve extracted all the orange goodness.
This pulp just tastes like fibrous, a slight tinge of orange flavor, not very good.
But if you juice the strawberries the strawberry pulp would actually still taste fairly good
and strawberries are so expensive.
That’s why I’m blending them.
And the reason why I didn’t just blend the oranges in there with the strawberries is
because we’d have a very thick and viscous smoothie which wouldn’t taste good because
it’s far too fibrous right.
It’s like if you ever tried to juice straight carrots in the blend right.
You get a carrot mush like a baby food and that’s not delicious to drink but on the
same token if you take the carrots and run it through the juicer you get a nice clean
delicious fresh refreshing carrot juice.
So you know I like that’s why I like to use both these appliances you know in their
own way to get the maximum benefits out of my fruits and vegetables.
And you know provided you have the tools to use the juicer and the blender you can do
more things like if you only had a blender you couldn’t make orange juicer and then
you know blend up your strawberries.
That’s why I encourage you guys out there to have both a juicer and their blend because
they do different things.
It’s kind of like having a blowdryer and a hair straightener right.
You could straighten your hair at the same time you’re drying it and you could kind
of blow dry your hair with a straightening if you’re a woman but you know and both
these machines are interchangeable but they’re kind of not cause both of them have their
own different functions.
So I’m gonna go ahead and cut off the rest of the tops of these strawberries and we’ll
come back at you when I’m about to blend it up.
Alright so we got the last strawberry here and we’re just gonna go ahead and cut off
the greens on it and then we’re just gonna go ahead and toss them into the blender and
we’re gonna put the blender top on.
And then what I like to do is basically blend this baby up.
What many people don’t realize when blending is that the blender is spinning incredibly
fast.
You know the Vitamix spins in excess of 200 miles per hour and that is quick.
I don’t know any animal that could run that fast and my car can’t even go that fast.
But that’s really fast and that’s basically in excess of 20,000 RPMs or revolutions per
minute.
That’s extremely fast whereas the juicer on this side, this runs at 43 revolutions
per minute so that’s much much much much slower.
You know when you’re juicing you’re minimally oxidizing or damaging the precious nutrients
in the food especially things that are you know sensitive to oxidation such as the antioxidants
you know and some of the phytochemical that are so beneficial for us.
So that’s why I believe you know juicing, if you want the most nutrition, juicing’s
clearly superior to blending to get the most nutrients out of whatever you’re processing.
That’s why I only put in like half or even less than half of my orange juice because
now my orange juice is gonna get blended with the strawberries.
My orange juice is now gonna have less nutrition.
If I just put orange juice in there without the strawberries and blended it up and then
had the orange juice here, this orange juice would have more nutrition because it’s only
been processed at 43 RPMs.
This one’s been processed at 43 RPMs and now subjected to 20,000 RPMs which basically
you lose nutrients.
So I’m only blending as much as I need to be able to blend my strawberries up and then
I’m gonna go ahead and pour my juice into the mixture so that most of my juice, or at
least some of my juice, has not been blended and not been exposed to the high speed and
excess aeration.
That’s another thing that blending does.
The blender adds small micro bubbles of air, which is actually part of the way that the
blender works to break down the food, it basically adds micro bubbles to the food which also
oxidizes it also when you’re drinking it, it gives you extra you’re swallowing extra
air.
And many of us have done that before you could swallow air and burp well that’s why after
some blended smoothies you may have a little bit of gas you know burping belching all this
stuff cause you’re actually swallowing air with the blended mixture.
So when blending the most important thing is you wanna blend as minimal as possible.
To do this I like to do the pulse blend technique sometimes, where you just literally put this
blender on high.
You blend it for a second then turn it off, you blend it for a second then you turn it
off and just quick pulse blends so that the blender’s not running continuously for a
long time.
And by doing this in a series of blends, you can finally get the consistency you desire
without having it literally running for like straight for 30 seconds and you know more
rapidly oxidizing and damaging nutrients in the food.
Alright, I think that’s all blended up.
Let’s go ahead and add the rest of our OJ in there.
It’s nice and thick OJ getting mixed right in.
Sometimes after I add it all in I’ll just do a final quick kind of spin on the blender
to kind of get it mixed up in there.
And here’s our final result.
This is my breakfast today.
Fresh orange strawberries blended up.
Look at that nice thick rich smoothie consistency.
Man Jamba Juice can’t touch this stuff.
Then you make fresh at home.
Go ahead and try it.
Mhmmm.
I got the sweetness of the oranges with the full flavor of the pith and all it’s nice
rich and thick texture plus the brilliant lycopene vibrant color from the strawberries
plus the awesome strawberry flavor to make one of the best juice and fruit smoothies
you’ve ever had for breakfast.
And this is what is truly possible with some of the equipment and appliances we offer at
discount juicers including the Omega VSJ843 juicer and the Vitamix turbo-blend VS blender.
You know I wanna encourage you guys to have all the tools you need in life to do what
you need to do and blenders and juicers are just two appliances that allow you to do that
but more importantly get healthier.
Both these machines have nice long warranties.
So they’re solid machines that are gonna last you many years to come so that you can
make the changes in life that you wanna see by including more fresh fruits and vegetables
in your diet so that you could start excluding any other bad stuff you’re eating.
If you fill up on good stuff like this I can’t imagine anybody who would not like a glass
it’s so sweet.
Mhmmm.
Delicious and thick ha, I think I’m gonna go ahead and enjoy it in peace.
I hope you guys enjoyed this episode.
If you did, give me a thumbs up let me know if I should do some more recipe demos for
you guys and let you know some of the recipes that I make on a daily basis to stay healthy,
stay fit and trim.
Also be sure to check my past episodes.
I’ve already got 400 different episodes comparing different juicers to other juicers,
and blenders to different blenders so that you can choose the right appliance for you.
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on brand new juicers coming out and when I do juice off comparisons and more juicing
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more fresh fruits and vegetables in you.
Once again my name is John Kohler with discountjuicers.com.
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