33 Juicing Recipes for Weight Loss - Part IV - A Beginner’s Guide to Safe Juicing

There are a lot of advantages to juicing which include weight loss, a stronger immune system, getting the nutrition that you need, and better metabolism for more energy to get you through the day. But, like a lot of good things, overdoing juicing or not taking the right approach can also do a lot of harm to your body. That’s why it’s important to have a good set of guidelines to help you out before you totally immerse yourself in a juicing program.

Food Hygiene and Preparation

There are a lot of ingredients that you can use for juicing. In fact, one of the best things about juicing is that your choices for juice are practically limitless and all depends on your health needs and personal taste. You can mix fruits and vegetables or go pure on veggies, depending entirely on your program objectives. But one of the things that most juicers fail to consider is the kind of produce that they may be drinking; not really what kind of fruits or vegetables but how they are grown. A lot of the produce that we find in the grocery stores or supermarkets these days are grown with pesticides or are treated in some way so that they last longer when they are sent overseas (apples are notorious for having a layer of wax over them that a lot of people unknowingly eat along with the fruit). The canned variety is not only treated with preservatives; the canning process also kills most of the natural enzymes which is part of what you’re looking for in your fruits and vegetables. When juicing, it is a must to use organic or farm grown ingredients especially because you will be juicing them raw. A good way to find produce that are free of pesticides and preservatives is to get to know your nearby farmer’s markets better. The local farmers will benefit from selling directly to customer and you’ll find much cheaper ingredients than you would at a specialized health grocery store.

When preparing ingredients for juicing, it may sometimes be appropriate to peel them like when you’re using carrots but sometimes a lot of the nutritional value of fruits and vegetables can actually be found in the skin. Whether you peel them or not, it is very important that every single ingredient is thoroughly washed before being juiced. For vegetables, make sure that all the dirt is washed out, especially for those that have layers. Leafy vegetables are particularly prone to having dirt particles hidden within their layers. For these kinds of vegetables, it’s best to take them apart and to clean in between the leaves before juicing them. When peeling vegetables, it is also important to wash them before peeling and wash them after. Some of the dirt on the peel may end up on the raw surface of the produce while peeling. In juicing, food hygiene and cleanliness is vital.


This is a sample from the book 33 Juicing Recipes for Weight Loss--to get the complete recipes you can get the book here: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00NB0RD8I