Jennifer Cornbleet: Smoothies are great way to get started with fruits and greens. But if you want to get serious about eating more greens, I really recommend getting into juicing. Juicing concentrates a larger amount of greens and you could ever eat in one sitting into a single glass serving that you can drink very quickly. Look at this bowl of green vegetables, it would be difficult to eat this many greens in a salad or even blended into a smoothy, but by juicing them I can concentrate all the nutrition in these greens into a single light meal. So if you do want to get into juicing its important to have the right kind of juicer they can extract the maximum amount of nutrition, flavor and colour from your green leafy vegetables.
The best juicer on the market that I found for juicing leafy greens is the Green Star juicer by Tribest. This juicer will juice most any fruit and vegetable, but it’s especially good for getting the maximum juice out of leafy greens. Let’s take a look at this juicer. The Green Star has two gears that just gently press the greens together, you can see this isn’t cutting me in anyway, others in typical juicers they cut your greens result in oxidation and you loose a lot of flavor and nutrition and colour, but not the Green Star. And these gears rotate at a very low temperature and slow speed, is just a 110 rotations per minute. So it’s very gentle on the greens and we are going to preserve all the nutrition that way.
You will see when I start juicing in a moment, that the pulp is going to come out very dry and that shows me that I’m getting the maximum amount of nutrition that I can from these greens. And juicing isn’t the only thing that the greens start us, there is another great plate, this is called the marginising play, and if you put this inside instead of the juicing screen you can make incredible ice creams and you can make pates out of soak nut and seeds as well, so it is a very versatile machine. It does take more time to make juice then to make a smoothly but its well worth it. And let me give you a few tips that can help you save some of that time.
The first thing you want to do is save all your vegetables scraps during the week, parsley stems, scale stems, broccoli stalks ends of cucumber and celery just keep them in a plastic bag or in a container or in your refrigerator as you accumulate them, and before you know you have enough vegetables to make a glass of juice after just a few days. Something else that can save your time if you really rushed in the morning when you want a juice, is cut all your vegetables the night before into a shape its going to fit for the suit of your juicer, and go ahead and wash them as well. And then you don’t have to do any of that in the morning.
And then what about cleaning the juicer, that’s one thing the people often, says time consuming. But you can cut that step out in the morning as well. What you do is juice all your veggies have your juicer right by the sink as you doing it plugged in and then afterwards you just take of this entire unit and store in a bowl of soaking water while you gone for day, and it will be fine during the day and then you can just easily rinse it off when you get home and you cut off that step as well. So if you follow these tips, you really can cut your juicing time down to just minutes in the morning.
So let’s start juicing, you always want to start off with the base of celery and our cucumber because these greens are mild or in flavor and they won’t be to over powering. That make sure you get some dark leafy greens in there two, so I’m going to be using kale and parsley. But you could also use collards or spinach or any other green of your choice.
What about flavoring it, because not everyone likes the taste of dark leafy greens, so there are little to intense for you, some flavorings they can really help offset the green taste is using a little bit of lemon in your juice that really pricks it up, and also if you like things spicy a small knob of ginger that’s going to prick up the flavor as well. That’s enough for me, but if you want your juice to be on the sweeter side, just go ahead and add a half an apple to it. So lets get started,
You have quite this juicer is, that’s because it’s a slow speed, low temperature juicer and that’s what you want. Look how I can just put this kale in stem side down right into the juicer and it just eats it up, I don’t even need to chop it ahead of time. I’m adding my flavorings in the middle here the lemon and the ginger, so that when I continue adding the greens I can push any remaining bits of those flavors through. Look how dry this pulp is, and how little of it there is, see you can see that this juicer really got all the maximum juice that we could and the nutrition that we could out of these greens.
Well this juice is such a beautiful vibrant colour, you can taste the energy in this juice; this really is the most nutrition-packed way that you can start your day.
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