Drinking fresh fruit and vegetable juices can be an excellent way to naturally improve your health, by incorporating more fruit and vegetable matter into your diet. Health practitioners are always telling us that we need to eat more fresh fruit and vegetables, but this is easier said than done. Although there are many interesting and healthy ways to prepare vegetables, there is no easier and faster delivery system than juicing them in the raw state, and drinking 2 to 3 glasses of this juice daily.
The reason that fresh juice is so healthy is that it preserves all of the goodness that was found in the original fruit or vegetable. This means that in a glass of juice, you can be getting significant amounts of nutrients, vitamins, and enzymes, which would otherwise be very difficult to obtain. Of course you could take artificial supplements and medications, but these are not only expensive but also questionable in terms of their long-term safety.
In order to make juice at home, you are going to need a juicer machine of some sort. Although there are many excellent electric machines on the market, you might want to consider buying a hand powered juicer device. A hand juicer, or manual juicer as they are sometimes known, will achieve the same results as an electric one, but will require a bit of effort on your part and take a bit longer. In some cases this may not be practical (say if you have a large family) but for the single person, or anybody who has some time on their hands, a hand juicer is an inexpensive and effective way to make healthy juice at home.
The best kind of hand juicer design to look for is the sort which clamps to your work surface, to eliminate movement while you juice. These juicers generally have a large metal clamp at their base, which you can screw to a counter top or kitchen table, and will hold the machine totally still. This is quite important because you’ll be using one hand to turn the handle, and the other hand to feed in ingredients. If the machine is loose and moves around, you will not only expand more effort in operating it, but you also likely make a mess and spill your juice!
Ideally, try to buy a hand juicer which is constructed of metal and not plastic. A stainless steel hand juicer will cost slightly more, but will long outlast any plastic juicer and provide years of reliable service.