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Breville Juice Fountain Plus

Breville Juice Fountain Plus

Are you looking for the Breville Juice Fountain Plus juicer?

Juicing fruits and vegetables is a popular way to supplement your nutritional intake. First, it is much easy to drink vegetables and fruits compared to eating them. Think of how fast you can drink a glass of apple juice compared to eating an apple. Why is it important to eat fruits and vegetables?

You cannot purchase juices at the grocery store and get the same nutritional benefits. These store bought juices are missing the vital nutrients present in the real fruits and vegetables. Do you know why?

Juicing can be a great way to loose weight. Joe Cross demonstrated dramatic weight loss in the movie Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead. Do you know how he did it?

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Do you recall the food pyramid? These days it has been replaced with a plate, resembling a pie chart. Funny how pie is now associated with healthy eating. However you may be more familiar with the classic food pyramid.

Since the creation of food pyramid, nutritionist have been telling us to eat fruits and vegetables. Why? Fruits and vegetables are are terrific source of fiber, vitamins and minerals. More so, in recent years anti-oxidants have come to light. These molecules neutralize free radical compounds in the body. These free radicals, left unchecked, damage the tissues and organs. It is believed that free radicals may be the cause of aging.

Juicing is a great way to get an instant blast of beneficial anti-oxidants. Juicing makes it easy to get your recommended daily allowances.

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You cannot get the same nutritional value from store bought juices. All commercially sold juices are pasteurized. A simple definition of pasteurization is super heating a juice to kill microorganisms, pathogens and bacteria. In a broader sense, it is any method meant to reduce the number of these items in the food we consume. The bad news is the process destroyed the vitamins, anti-oxidants and phytonutrients too.

Look at your container of orange or grape juice. Notice how one of the ingredients is ascorbic acid? Ascorbic acid is vitamin C. It is on the ingredients list because the manufacturer had to add vitamin C to the juice since the natural vitamin C was destroyed during the pasteurization process. This is the only way they can put "has a full day of vitamin C" on the label. Sure, it has the vitamin, but it is synthetic. You might as well drink sugar water with a multi vitamin.

Real fruits and vegetables have the natural vitamins in them. Plus they have proper balances of phytonutrients that science has yet to duplicate. This makes the real thing better than store bought juice.

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Fiber is essentially the dense cell wall of plants that cannot be digested. It you recall any biology, you may remember that plants have rigid cell walls. Animals cells on the other hand have only a membrane. Imagine a tree, and how dense the wood must be to grow to that height or support the weight of leaves on the branches. Or imagine biting into a stalk of celery and how rigid it is.

This cell wall material passes through your digestive system unabsorbed. That is why fiber has no calories.

Juicing removes the fiber. The pulp leftover after juicing contains the fiber. Some choose to consume this fiber rather then discard it. Recipes for preparing juicer pulp is however a topic for another day. Just be aware that juice is missing fiber.