Carrot Juicing - The Facts

I've been juicing carrots as mentioned before. I've no idea how anyone can actually have the 5 - 6 pounds of carrot juice a day! It's quite difficult to get down but I guess if you think it might be a matter of living or dying it becomes much easier to drink!

I bought a juicer  - it was around £100 but I think this is quite cheap for a juicer looking at some of the others. They can be over £300 and some are over £1000 - well sod that!

The £100 juicer started quite well other than there was an enormous amount of pulp  floating on top of the juice. This was a bit unpleasant but I still drank it. I googled the *pulp* and read that this can happen with cheaper juicers. There is far less pulp when using one of the more expensive juicers.  I decided I'd stick with my *cheap* £100 one and started sieving off the pulp which worked well.

The machine I bought is compact but still too big for our smallish kitchen.  Some of them look like a small village.  The jug collecting the juice on my juicer is small and after juicing half a dozen or so carrots I have to stop to tip the juice into another container. When I've completed all the carrot juicing I end up with a couple of jars of juice.. three sometimes, but this is only ever around 4 pounds of carrots at most.  I put the jars in the fridge and drink it throughout the day. It's better cold from the fridge although it has given me brain freeze a few times!

There are two types of juicer, cold press and centrifugal. I struggle to know the difference, but the gist of it is that the cold press are the expensive ones and have a better way of extracting the juice with less pulp and as there is no heat generated, it ends up with more nutrients.  The centrifugal ones use fast spinning metal blades, produce a bit of hear which can kill off some of the goodness in the carrots and from what I can gather are not fit for heavy daily use! I say this because yesterday after trying to juice 5 - 6 pounds of carrots for the first time, I got to around 4 pounds when the cutters started to go slower, the machine spluttered and smoke started pouring out of it.  I'd had the machine 10 days :(

I'm going to get another machine and I'm going to have to shell out more money for it or no doubt the same thing will happen.  I've considered just not bothering but if I don't I will just worry that I could have been doing myself some good but spoilt it by not continuing!

What a merry-go-round this whole new cancer world is!