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October 21, 2016
The Top 7 Benefits of Cold-Press Juicing
Juice: the tastiest component of any fruit or vegetable. Unfortunately, not all juice is created equal. The same two kale leaves can end up at completely opposite ends of the nutritional and tastiness scales, just because they were juiced differently.
The best way to make sure your kale leaves, or any of the other fruits and vegetables you love end up juiced right, is to realize the benefits of cold-pressed juicing, and insist that your juice gets the cold-pressed treatment every time.
So here are seven of the biggest cold-press juicing benefits we know about. Once you drink this knowledge down, we defy you to choose generic juice ever again.
Benefit #1: You get the good stuff
And by good stuff we mean vitamins and enzymes that can get lost or destroyed by commercial juicing methods. If your juice is pasteurized, that process brings all the ingredients to a very high temperature for a short time, it then gets immediately cooled down, and along the way certain chemicals are applied to these ingredients to ensure harmful bacteria does not form during packaging. Unfortunately, that means that any good bacteria also gets zapped out of your juice at the same time.
The same drawbacks exist with traditional centrifugal or rotary juicers. The process of shredding fruits and vegetables with blades exposes the produce to air and speeds up oxidation, and this can cause heavy casualties to good bacteria, enzymes and vitamins.
Benefit #2: You get more of the good stuff
According to a study conducted by the Huffington Post, ounce per ounce, you extract more juice from a cold-pressed juicer than from other types of juicers. This is especially true of leafy greens, and those are the ones that you want to be leaching to the max because they’re full of chlorophyll. This efficiency means that you save money, because it takes less produce to give you your daily juice fix with a cold-pressed juicer. The same carrot will yield more juice from a cold-pressed juicer than from a traditional centrifugal juicer.
Benefit #3: You get your five a day without even having to try
Maybe you’re already getting your five a day, but for a lot of people, getting the right amount of greens they need every day can be a struggle. Drinking cold-pressed juice is a natural and very efficient way of massively increasing your consumption of raw fruits and vegetables in just one sitting. As soon as you have that glass of cold-pressed juice, every other fruit or vegetable you eat that day is a bonus. If you can make cold-pressed juicing a habit, then you’re making a great step forward towards a proactive healthy lifestyle.
Benefit #4: You will feel an increase in energy levels
There’s a ton of research out there that all seems to point to the same conclusion: having a good intake of raw vegetables and fruits as part of your daily diet improves your energy levels. According to an article on Cold-Pressed Juicing by health expert, and New York Times best-selling author, Dr Mercola, this is because your blood gets flooded with nutrients and your body’s pH is optimized. Because juice is absorbed very rapidly by your body, cold pressed juicing drinkers regularly talk about feeling an almost instantaneous energy kick within a few minutes of drinking their cold pressed juice. It’s like nature’s espresso shot.
Benefit #5: Your immune system gets a boost
The nutrients in cold-pressed juice feed your body’s good bacteria, and these little guys help to suppress potentially pathogenic bacteria. Again, an article by Dr Mercola concludes that because cold-pressed juice has all the raw goodness of nutrients and vitamins coursing through it, these can supercharge your immune system with concentrated phytochemicals and biophotonic light energy. This starts to get quite ‘sciency’ for us, but it basically boils down to the same advice you get from your doctor during flu season. If you want to stay healthy and avoid illness, take your vitamins. And a cold-pressed juice is like a multivitamin only it’s actually enjoyable to take and comes with a bunch of other benefits as well (see above).
Benefit #6: It’s quiet
If mornings are a sacred time for you, then nothing is more likely to get you off to a bad start than a machine that sounds like a lawn mower shredding through your harvest of fresh fruits and vegetables. As we have already established, a cold-pressed juicer can perform a superior juicing function, and you won’t miss a single chime from your meditation playlist while it does its thing. It’s just a gentle hum in the background, like a yogi.
Benefit #7: It tastes better
Ok, so this is going to sound far fetched, but it’s true: cold-pressed juice just tastes better. Maybe it’s the extra enzymes and vitamins that are coming through, maybe it’s the fact that the fruits and vegetables have had minimal handling; who knows? But if you don’t believe us, make your own Pepsi challenge of cold-pressed juice versus pasteurized or generic juicer made juice, and experience it for yourself. Trust us, your taste buds will never let you go back!
The Juicero Difference
Like so many terms today, ‘juice’ can be applied to describe an enormous variety of products that differ greatly in their nutritional value and production methods.
Certain cold-pressed juicers, like Juicero for example, take care of every step in the juicing process – sourcing, washing, chopping, packing – so that you only get the very best cold-pressed juice in your home. And while you’re enjoying every sip, you can wallow in a little well-deserved smugness, as you reflect on all the other benefits of making cold-pressed juice part of your lifestyle.
Bottoms up!