Basket of Fresh-Picked Apples
Introduction Juicing, particularly organic juicing, provides your body with high quality, nutrient-packed fruit and vegetables juices. "Home-made" juices are easily digested, quickly absorbed into the bloodstream, and offer a simple way to increase your daily intake of fruits and vegetables, though the beneficial cellulose / hemicellulose / lignin / pectin fibre will be left behind in the pulp. Home-made juices are also nutritionally superior to store-bought varieties that have been processed and pasteurized, destroying beneficial enzymes and reducing nutritional value.
Common juicing foods include apples, beets, barleygrass, cabbage, carrots, celery, cranberries, cucumbers, dandelions, grapefruits, grapes, kale, lemons, oranges, papayas, parsley, spinach, sunflower sprouts, turnips, watercress, and wheatgrass. The combinations are only limited by your imagination and/or a good juicing recipe book. However, keep fruits with fruits and vegetables with vegetables. Apples are the only fruits that should be juiced with vegetables.
