hi it's Cara from Health, Home and Happiness and today we're going to talk about juicing
I'm going to show you how we do juicing in our family and I'm going to tell you
some of the benefits and then at the end of the video I'm actually going to go
into a little story about how I turn my children orange with juice so stay tuned
for that so the first thing we're going to talk about is your juicer and so this
is a cold-pressed juicer and it uses kind of a chewing technology so it's
similar to how your food is extracted but when you're chewing it and then it
presses the juice out the other kind of juicer and the one that's a little less
expensive and the one that we started with is a centrifugal force juicer and
they're a cylinder and there's usually a chute up at the top where it kind of
grates the veggies as they go in and then it spins it to spend that juice out
so these kinds of juicers are a little bit slower they're a little bit more
expensive but they do get a lot more of the juice out so I recommend starting
with a centrifugal force juicer unless you are planning on juicing often and a
lot if you're just using it a little bit as part of a detoxification protocol
then you're gonna want to start with one of the less expensive juicers and and
yes you'll have to pay a little bit more in produce but if you only use it a half
a dozen times and it never really works for you you don't bother to get it out
you don't like the juice or something like that just that protocol doesn't
work for you it's not worth it to invest in like a 200 300 dollar juicer just to
use it a handful of times so I recommend starting with like the
ninety five hundred and twenty five dollar juicers there are those
centripetal force ones and then if juicing is something that you are
enjoying the health benefits from you find it works into your life you enjoy
starting your day with a glass of raw juice then upgrading to one of these
higher power juicers that takes a little bit longer is definitely worth it
because of all the because you just get a lot more juice out of the produce and
then you do from the other kind of blenders so the best way that i have
found to use juice is to juice on an empty stomach and so a part of the
reason why we do so we don't blend is because if you blend up all
oh geez you have the fiber in there to which your digestive system has to kind
of like process that fiber out and get the nutrients from the juice out and so
when we juice we're taking the fiber out oh yes I'll show you how to use that
insight in other recipes we're getting the compounds from the plants and are
really easy to digest form and so it's a very concentrated without the fiber
which fiber as we know is undigestible so it's something our body has to kind
of sort out and get rid of we don't we so we use the juicer to sort it out and
get rid of the fiber and then we just start our day with an empty stomach and
just an immediate hit of easy to absorb vitamins minerals and other plant
compounds which there's so many like if you look on the PubMed or you look up
medical journals they come up with new compounds that are found in different
fruits and vegetables all the time that are healing for diseases that are good
for our immune system that is some that are compounds that we didn't realize we
needed but we actually do so all of these are found in plants juicing is a
great way to extract those from the plants especially if you're dead like if
you have leaky gut and your digestion isn't great this is a great way to just
get that hit of nutrition right as you start the day another thing that you can
do with your juicing is add a specific healing food so you can get this is
ginger but you can actually at some grocery stores especially high-end
grocery stores you can get turmeric that looks like this and you can just peel a
little bit and put a little slice of turmeric fresh tumeric or fresh ginger
into your juice and those both have anti-inflammatory properties that they
both give a little bit more flavor to the juice so just try a little bit see
what you like cilantro if you are chelating heavy metals like if you've
had fillings removed that had heavy metals or you or you otherwise have
heavy metals in your system like from vaccines or from exposure in an
environment or in Impa or from environmental exposure or that kind of
thing cilantro is great for actually binding to those heavy metals and
pulling it out and again with juicing we take the fiber out of this and so it's
just those plant chemicals that are yes they are
also chemicals but they're from plants and they are perfect for detoxifying
heavy metals and other different things that your body has too much of that's
having a hard time processing so you can try different flavor combinations
carrots are nice and sweet so a lot of times when we do mostly carrot we don't
have to add in any fruit if you're using like a lot of spinach or you're losing a
lot of cilantro or basil or the more savory
less sweet vegetables adding in an apple or to add some more sweetness some lemon
can kind of brighten it up lemon goes great with our greens our leafy greens
and that cucumber is a nice neutral flavor it's it's slightly sweet too like
cucumber carrot juice is one of our favorites I'm having a cucumber in with
some spinach and some cilantro the cucumber kind of mellows out the
cilantro flavor and mellows out the spinach flavor and so with juice another
thing that's great is if you just see it coming out and you try it and it's like
a little bit too tart or it's a little bit too bitter you can just go ahead and
juice through another apple or something another thing I want to talk about is
that when you do juice you have to have a ton of produce on hand and so like
this whole bin of spinach will juice this and probably two days for a family
of four or you just have like cucumbers you have like a big bag of organic
carrots from Costco is usually where I get my carrots from a big bag of apples
and so if you find yourself like stocking up on produce but then life
gets in the way and you're finding this produce going bad the best thing that
can save your butt is a food dehydrator so if I find that like oh I just bought
two cartons of spinach but I'm going on vacation like I
just spaced it that I'm going on vacation or I'm going on to town for the
weekend I don't want this all to go bad so what I'll do is I'll just dump all
this into the different dehydrator trays and then I'll dehydrate it overnight and
then you can't use this to juice again once you've dehydrated it but it's great
and like spinach dip it's great in soups it's great in all sorts of things so
that's how you can keep if you accidentally by too much produce or
you're not juicing like you thought you would or like some people can't tolerate
as much juice as like they planned on juicing three times a day but their
body's just like oh that's a little bit too much juice for me so they go back to
doing just once a day if you find yourself with an enormous amount of
produce and you need to not let it go bad because everyone knows how much we
hate for organic produce to go bad then just pop all that in the food dehydrator
carrots you can run them through the you can run them through the slicing blade
on your food processor or just slice them really finely toss them with a
little sea salt and put those in the dehydrator that's a great way to save
your produce as well apples you'll see I chose I choose Red Delicious apples when
I juice because I don't love the texture of these for eating but it doesn't
matter for juicing that also doesn't matter in the dehydrator so if you've
got like 20 pounds of Red Delicious apples because you found a great sale on
them again you're not using them for juice as quickly as you thought you
would and you're afraid they're gonna go bad go ahead and just slice those up
because I think we've all been to where we started detoxification diet we start
a new diet and then we're just gonna hoe we buy all this produce and then it all
rots in the fridge so that's how you can save it if you realize you're not going
through it that's how you can save it if you realize you're not going through it
as quickly as you thought you would just pop all that in the dehydrator and so
here's our story on how I turn my children orange and this is something
that actually I've seen other families do when they start juicing as kids love
carrot juice lee and then you're kind of excited and you're just like oh my kids
like carrot juice like that's awesome I want to get all these nutrients in them
sure you're like begging for more carrot juice okay here's some more carrot juice
so because it is so common we end up getting like six carrots into
one cup of juice that a child will drink and so you're getting all the
beta-carotene which is what makes carrots orange so you're getting all the
beta-carotene from six carrots into one little cup of juice and that is
something that if you're drinking that three times a day even though it's good
for you your body just can't quite process that
much beta-carotene at all and so I notice I've done this to all three of my
kids actually is either when they start solids and they're really excited about
sweet potato or I'm juicing and I'm giving them a little bit of juice it
just it adds up so quickly I don't think it's bad for you but it's something that
just like they look odd so the first thing I see is like their face gets ill
it kind of an orange hue and then their scalp is like really super orange cuz
like our we don't have any tan in our cells scalp because our hair covers it
so I've noticed that their scalp gets really orange and there's nothing you
need to do for it just back off on the carrot juice maybe start doing some
greens or some human apples if you need to make it more sweet for them just back
off and your body can process all that beta-carotene in the next couple days so
that's so that's my story on how I have turned all three of my children orange
using carrot juice just something to watch out for it's not it's not harmful
or anything it's just something that other people might look at you like
you're a little weird if you have orange children so keep that in mind as you're
juicing