Manufactured V Freshly Made Juices

This is what we think on bottled juices and why fresh juice from your juicer at home is the best thing for you! And while we are on this subject what preciselyis juice from concentrate anyway??

Take the good old apple for example, when an apple is growing on a tree in blazing sunlight then it's a living thing growing and rammed full of nature’s finest goodness! As soon as you pick the apple it's at its peak and whatever happens from now it's losing its natural nutritional power and health giving properties!

That's why it's a great idea to eat fresh fruit and veggiesas often as you can, and by fresh, nothing is fresher than straight off the tree! Fresh fruits and vegetables or freshly juiced fruit and veg juice is about as healthy as foods gets. Rammed full of vitamins, minerals sucked straight from the ground, and easy to digest. Super.

Now freshly made bottled juice is good, no doubt, but think about it, the fruit is picked, sent to the factory, juiced ( and we hope it's juiced in a nutrient preserving way of course ) probably heat treated in some way to give it it's shelf life and then sent to the shop for you to buy! That's a good while there to say the least, and that heat treating will certainly degrade the nutrient content! Not good and not what we can call a living food is it?

And what does made from concentrate mean? Well I'll tell you! This is a way to make cheaper juice at source, for example say you want pineapple juice in a country that pineapples justdon't grow. Here are the 6 steps of juice that is made from concentrate....

1 grow your pineapples.

2 pick the pineapples and juice them.

3 dehydrate the juice, making pineapple concentrate (you spotted it, a heat process).

4 ship the dehydrated pineapple concentrate to the country you want to market your juice in.

5 re-hydrate the pineapple pulp from the concentrate.

6 bottle the juice up and send it out to the shops ready to sell.

Its things like this that can leave our food pretty dull and lifeless, the energy, live power and life itself starts to fall away from our food as soon as it's picked.

This is why we think live juices straight from a slow speed, cold press style juicer are the best thing for you! Your body needs the fragile micro nutrients that processing, time and heat takes away from your food.

We hope these articles on juicers, living foods and other power food methods are useful to you and get you thinking about what you can do to improve your health and vitality today! Remember being healthy does have a positive effect but will take time to take effect. We hope you stick with it!

The author, Mark makes a lot of fresh juicer and blender drinks and tries to be as healthy as he can be.

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