Today I am going to write an essay on juicing. Juicing is the process of taking natural liquids,vitamins and minerals extracted from raw fruits and vegetables, stripping away any of the solid matter, and making them into a juice. People say that drinking the juice helps the body to absorb the vitamins and nutrients into its system faster. I am hoping to learn the best ways to make the juice and also what are the health benefits to juicing.
The juice can come from a few different ways. Some of the ways to get juice from vegetables and fruit are: blender, cold pressed, masticating, and centrifugal. Each method has its pros and cons but the cold pressed yields the most juice but it is the most expensive option as well. The blender is the cheapest option but the con to that would be it takes a lot more time due to having to filter out the pulp. The centrifugal way of juicing spins the vegetables and fruit at a high speed causing the juice to separate from the vegetable or fruit. The con that people say about this method is that the cell walls of the fruit and vegetables are hard to break down so you do not get as much juice and may have to put them back in for a second time to get more juice out of it. The masticating way of juicing crushes the vegetables and fruit at a low speed. This is one of the most common ways people juice. The con to this method is the clean up can be time consuming.…show more content… In research there is not any proof confirming that juicing is better than eating vegetables. People say that drinking the juice save the body from having to work at digesting the fiber from the vegetables or fruit. Other people say that when you juice you are losing out on the healthy fiber from the vegetables and fruit. Either way everyone says that as long as you are eating or drinking the vegetables you are doing your body
