Why
Juice?
86% of Australians are not getting
enough vegetables into their diets
People are eating on average 2.9
serves of vegetables per day
Mostly commonly eaten vegetables
were carrot (21%), broccoli (18.7%),
tomatoes (15%) and potatoes (13.2%),
however close to 20% of the potatoes
eaten were french fries
An alarming 18% of people are getting
one or less servings of vegetables per day
Fresh juices supply your body
with significant amount of
vitamins, minerals and enzymes.
Enzymes support thousands of
chemical reactions that occur
throughout the body. Because
they are temperature sensitive,
they begin to die at around 48
degrees C, ;which means all
cooked and processed foods are
devoid of enzymes. Juices also
contain concentrated natural
sugars that provide vital energy.
Juicing removes the indigestible
fibre from fruits and vegetables,
and releases many of the nutrients
that are trapped in the fibre. For
example, when you eat a raw
carrot you can assimilate around
one per cent of the available
beta carotene. However, when
the carrot is juiced and the fibre
removed, closer to 100% of beta
carotene can be assimilated.
Fibre is still important though,
so continue to eat raw fruits and
National Health and Medical Research Council
vegetables to get enough fibre removal of the fibers in the juicing
and keep you regular.
process, enables juices to be very
quickly digested and assimilated,
Why not just eat the
sometimes in a matter of minutes,
vegetables?
with a minimum of effort and
exertion on the part of the
Without the knowledge of the digestive system.
principles involved in the use of
fresh-live vegetables and fruits You can absorb up to 99% of their
juices, one would naturally ask: nutritional value. Juices provide
“Why not neat the whole vegetable concentrated supply of essential
and fruit instead of juicing it and nutrients. The basic key to the
what about the fiber that would value of nourishing your body is
the life which is present in your
be discarded from juicing?
food and of those subtle elements,
Solid food requires many hours known as enzymes.
of digestive activity before its Enzymes have been described
nourishment is finally available to as complex
matter
which
the cells and tissues of the body. enables us to digest food and to
While the fibers in solid food have absorb it into our blood. A lot
virtually no nourishing value, like when we are given a ‘drip’
they do act as an intestinal broom in hospital and feed fluids and
during the peristaltic activity of nutrients through a needle in
the intestines, hence the need our arm because it is the
to eat raw foods in addition to quickest way to get it into our
drinking juices. However, the bloodstream.
The liver cleanse juice below is full of enzymes and nutrients which aid liver function and improve well being.