Would you like to make juice occasionally? A lot of talk goes on these days about how juice can benefit your health in a multitude of ways. All you have to do is make fruit and vegetable juice, and you can drink it to get your daily intake of vitamin C and other vitamins, minerals and enzymes, all in a tasty glassful of juice. No longer is it necessary to pop pills for vitamin supplements, if you feel you don’t get enough from your regular diet. Simply make juice.
However, it is quite well known that juicer machines can sometimes use a lot of power. Using up more power means a bigger electricity bill, which can be expensive and unpleasant. Therefore some juicer machines made today are hand powered.
Hand juicers will not only save you money in electricity, it will also save the more delicate nutrients in your juice. Most juicers heat the juice slightly – not hot, but enough to destroy many vitamins and enzymes.
Part of the reason you make and drink juice is to get these nutrients, after all, so you may be advised to use a hand juicer to preserve these.
A hand juicer is made in such a way that a handle turns a crank which turns an auger, which forces the chunks of fruit or vegetables through a sieve inside the chute. The pulp goes through the chute and the juice runs out beneath the sieve, giving you a very dry pulp compared to an electric centrifugal juicer, the most common type of electric juicer on the market.
You place a cup or bowl beneath the juice side (and one beneath the pulp as well, of course, to contain the pulp that comes out) and collect it up, then drink the juice.
Because masticating hand juicers, as they are called, operate via hand crank, they are not hard work to turn, yet produce a very high quality juice. A hand juicer ends up saving you power and benefits your heath, both highly desirable things!
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