Juicing helps you consume more vegetables than you could eat in a day. Why not just eat the vegetables and fruit? The latest nutritional guidelines indicate that we need more veggies and fruit than most people can eat in a day—between 9 and 13 servings of vegetables and fruit. Most people don’t even come close to getting those number of servings every day. Juicing can make it possible to reach the goal of a minimum of 9 servings a day with requiring a lot of time.
Juice can help your body heal. If you have health issues, it’s even more important to juice. Fresh cold-pressed juice offers the vitamins and minerals that help your body heal naturally. It will also increase your energy and strengthen your immune system, plus the raw juice offers nutrients and micronutrients that help your body heal on a cellular level.
If you want to prevent disease, the surest path to a disease-free life begins with a diet rich in plant foods. Juicing provides the nutritional benefits of plants in a concentrated form that is easy to absorb. Juicing is a delicious, simple way to increase your consumption of life-giving raw foods.
Fresh juice offers health benefits nothing else can match. Not only does juice provide your body with water and easily absorbed protein, carbohydrates, essential fatty acids, vitamins, minerals, enzymes, and phytonutrients, it also provides a substance that’s more difficult to measure that is present in raw foods – biophotons, which are light raws of energy absorbed by the plants.
People often ask me how much produce it takes to make a glass of juice. Actually, if you’re using a good juicer, it takes a surprisingly small amount.
For example, all of the following items, each weighing roughly a pound, yield about one 8-ounce glass of juice: three medium apples, five to seven carrots, or one large cucumber. The following each yield about a half cup of juice: three large stalks of celery or one orange. Juicing is actually economical as well as nutritious.
The sooner you drink juice after you make it, the more nutrients you’ll get. However, you can store juice and not lose too many nutrients by keeping it cold and away from oxygen, light, and heat. Store in a glass jar and store in the refrigerator for up to 3 days, you can freeze them for up to 10 days.