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When it you make that decision to enter the world of juicing, you will notice a wide selection of juicers varying in quality, price, and performance. Since price is the most easily distinguishable aspect of the different juicers, it’s easy to fall into the trap of buying an inexpensive juicer that doesn’t work so well.
The problem is that most people who have never tested different juicer don’t know that what they are regularly drinking is not as high in quality as it could be because of the poor quality juicer they are using. The better juicers operate at slower speeds to maintain the quality of your ingredients. High speed juicers and blender will do about 1,000 to 24,000 RPM.
The heat of the blades could be enough to partially cook the ingredients which change the structure of some key enzymes and nutrients. We want our juice to be as raw as possible otherwise it defeats the purpose of juicing to obtain nutrients in its natural state. A good juicer will run about 80 RPMs which is less than 10% the speed of a bad blender. This low speed minimizes the effect of heating as well as other forms of damage to your juice.
Impact from high speed blades also will affect the nutrients in your juice by damaging the minerals with physical force. And while there is oxidation of the ingredients by juicing, slower blades make a huge difference in reducing the amount of oxidation. There will be less foaming in your juice as a result of slower blade action.
Noise is another factor in comparing the quality of juicers. While not always true, cheaper juicers of lesser quality well tend to make more noise than the rest of them. Better machines operate more quietly and the best juicers muffle the noise sufficiently.
Well designed juicers take the cleaning process into consideration and might have a pulp catching compartment that is easy to remove and clean while others don’t remove pulp from juice at all. You get more juice from the latter but clean up might get a little tricky. A good juicer can be rinsed clean in about five minutes. This makes juicing a less dreadful experience.
Then comes the ingredients that the juicers are built for. Harder ingredients like leafy greens and wheat grass is tougher and cannot be handled by softer juicers such as a centrifugal juicer, which is designed to only handle citrus fruit and other soft ingredients. It is important for anyone to incorporate vegetable juicing just as equally as fruit so unless there is already a strong enough juicer sitting around, there is no reason to buy a juicer that can’t juice hard ingredients. Get a multiple function juicer and live life juiced.
Acai juice is a fruit juice made from the acai berry. The acai berry commonly found in swamps and floodplains in the rain forests of South America. It is the fruit of the acai palm tree which is a member of the genus Euterpe, which consists of eight species of palm trees. These acai palm trees are native to Central and South America, from Belize southward to Brazil and Peru.
The acai berry is green when young. A young acai berry can be light green but its color darkens and turns purple as the berry ages. The small berries grow on top of the acai palm trees in bunches, similar to grapes. While the fruit is tiny, its stone inside is large in comparison. The stone makes up about 80% of the acai fruit. Each berry contains only a small amount of the acai pulp which is the best part of the fruit.
Eating the acai berry can make you healthy. People native to the Amazon believe that the berry has miraculous power. They have recognized the nutritional and medicinal benefits of this fruit for centuries. People in Brazil and Peru would drink the acai juice made from pulping the fruit or they might just consume the acai pulp itself.
In the US, people care a great deal about their health. They welcome any healthy fruits including the acai fruit. But, there are no acai palm trees in the US so there are no acai fruits. Therefore, instead of eating the fruit, people in the US drink acai juice. As the demand for acai juice increases, more manufacturers start producing more and more products containing extracts from the acai berry.
In the past, few companies manufactured acai juices but now that they know there is demand for them, few juice companies do not have products with the acai berry on their labels. Sambazon is one of the leading companies with a lot of popular acai juices and other products. You can buy Sambazon products in most grocery stores. MonaVie is another company whose acai juice has taken the market by storm. MonaVie is an MLM company and only sell their acai juice through their distributors.
Regardless of the acai juice you are interested in, it is very important that you educate yourself on the acai nutritional facts and associated acai berry benefits before you buy. That way you are less likely to get caught up in an acai scam that is common nowadays. There are plenty of products you can buy in your local grocery stores.
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