We talk about juicers enough, but here is our thought on our other favorite tool of choice, the blender. A decent blender in your kitchen is a brilliant tool for healthy drinks no mess, no waste and great easy to digest drinks! The blenders we offer are all tough boys, plenty of power offering easy liquidizing of fruits and veggies, we think when you adopt a raw and fruity life you will need equipment you can depend on.
What to look our for when you buy a blender
POWER, at least 900 watts but the more the merrier, a really powerful blender will make smoother smoothies quicker than a low power machine.
QUALITY particularly in the power socket, a cheap blender will ALWAYS break where the drive from the motor meets the blade driver.
JUG SIZE again, if you are making drinks for the family, the bigger the better, and allow for the drink sloshing around.
CONTROL speed control is an advantage, at low speed you can fold oils and powders into your drinks at high speed you can mill nuts and seeds.
EASY to clean, look for wipe clean surfaces, and simple to clean contours.
Keep things interesting too, if like me you can be a little lazy, equip yourself with a decent recipe book so you’ve always got new things to try. This keeps me primed with new mixes to try and knowledge of the effects of natural additives such as spirulina! There are TONNES of hip books out there, they’re a great help in keeping things fresh!
When you’ve got the time double up the juicer and blender for max nutrition, juice some carrots, ginger and tender stem, throw that juice in the blender and add some pears, pineapple, half an avocado and a couple of scoops of essential food and KAPOW, there you have broad spectrum natural nutrients in a glass! Take a look at our juicer-blender deals.
Remember, the point of consuming smoothies as well as them tasting really good is that liquidized food is easier to digest than food you chomp up, this means it takes less energy to digest and is more thoroughly digested.
If you are new to this fresh and juicy lifestyle here is some help deciding if you need a juicer and a blender and what each tool is for.
So here are a few of our favorite things to chuck in the blender..
Pineapple: just slice it up trim the skin and lob it in
Avocado: a total favorite total food here at JP towers you can’t go wrong with avocado in the mix
Banana: a smoothie staple, too fleshy to juice so in the blender it goes
Berries: blue, straw, black, you name it berries are good for you and add great taste to a smoothie.
Kiwi fruits: rammed full of vitamin C slice them, scoop them and throw it in the blender, the seeds crush up nicely and add protein.
Oranges: buy seedless oranges peel them and blend them great and no waste!
Apples: peel and core they blend well in a powerful machine.
Melon: high water content, great for thinning out a drink so it will go up a straw OK!
Peach: stone out then blend and great taste and texture to any drink
Nuts and seeds: add protein and more to your smoothies with a handful of nuts and seeds. So easy to do and really worth while.
I hope you found this useful and are inspired to start making your own healthy smoothies at home
- Robert
Well two great tools for today’s healthy kitchen, let’s start by telling you what each machine does. A blender is a standard piece of kitchen mixing equipment, for the raw foodist this is what you use to make delicious meal-in-a-glass smoothies!
A blender is simply a mixing jug with a rotary blade at the bottom; whatever you put in the top gets liquidized and turned into a drink! So for example you may throw in a banana, some soy milk, some strawberries and a few ice cubes and you’ll have a delicious and easy to digest fruit smoothie, no waste, and no fuss and just swill out the blender jug when you are done. Simple!
The beauty of smoothie making is that there is no waste product, everything is used up in the drink, your ingredients are liquidized and made very easy to digest, just think of those lazy summer days with a tall banana smoothie in your hand and the sun’s rays on your face perfect!!
Blenders also make short work of adding super foods and other drink enhancers to your smoothie; you could whip in barley grass powder, protein powder, ginseng, or any other healthy liquid or powdered supplement!
Buy a decent blender and you can make super easy to digest nutritious smoothies every day!
Ingredients suitable for blending:
1) Banana, Mango, Strawberry, Raspberry soft pulpy fruits!
2) Juice from your juicer
3) Nuts
4) Seeds
5) Kiwi fruit (peeled), Berries, Star fruit, passion fruit, avocado, grapes,
6) Orange and other citrus (peeled of course)
7) Super food
8) Greens complexes, powdered barley grass etc.
9) Protein powder! Go beefcake!
10) Seed oil, essential fats etc
11) Ice, ice baby, lets face it you want your smoothie cool, after all anything less than the best is a felony!
12) Leafy greens I often make a point of chucking in a handful of spinach
Now your juicer is like a key!! It’s a key for taking all of Mother Natures natural fare and unlocking the raw liquid goodness from within!! Grab a carrot! Now look at that carrot and imagine inside it is charged with all the stuff you need, vitamins, minerals, enzymes and live nutrients for life!!!
Now your juicer allows you to take a handful of natures finest foods and separate the rough, tough, and hard to break down body of the fruit or veg from the pure liquid gold nutrient content within! If you were to take that carrot now and run it through a juicer now you would have two things, one, a small mound of bland dry pulp, and two, a glass of nutritional LIQUID GOLD!!! This is what the juicer does! It unlocks the natural raw power of fruits and veggies and gives them to you in a way that your body can fully and easily absorb!
Your juicer can give you a lifetime of service providing you with the best dietary supplement of all natural living juice!
Now there are obviously different types of juicer with differing capabilities so this gives you a good idea of which type of machine does what! Look out for more articles covering health topics in more detail.
- Robert
How do I prepare wheatgrass for a smoothie?
I bought fresh wheatgrass for a smoothie and the recipe calls for a shot of wheatgrass. I asked a whole foods guy what that meant and he said to juice it to the amount of a shot glass. Is that correct? And if so do I put it in a blender or do I actually have to put it in a juicer?
- KMartine
The aim of this article is to point out the goodness that is inside carrot juice, and to list the nutrients that are in it. Carrot juice on its own can be pretty boring although at the same time being very good for you, and by adding different ingredients into your juicer it can be both tasty and good for you at the same time.
It’s a common known fact that a liquid nutrient is far superior to any other of the tablet variety. Once the liquid is in your mouth it starts to work straight away providing excellent nutrients for the body, where as a tablet has to let the acid in the stomach do the work, and only a small percentage of goodness actually goes into the system.
With carrot juice you have an abundance of vitamin A and vitamin C. Another ingredient sometimes over looked is Potassium which helps with muscle control as well as being an excellent way of reducing cholesterol levels.
It is true that carrot juice on its own or any other vegetable that you make into juice can be an acquired taste, and if you’re thinking about trying to induce your children into taking these healthy juices they will probably take one taste and spit it out.
Now it is a fact of life that children do love smoothies or shakes, and by making fruit smoothies with bananas, strawberries, raspberries, blackcurrants or any other of these types of fruits and then mix in a little carrot juice the battle is then won.
For a healthy option to thicken the mix up you can add natural yoghurt and you find that in normal circumstances that it is trial and effort to get things right.
By using milk in a shake the children will also get a good dose of Calcium. Please note that you don’t have be a child, to drink these, as things like Calcium, vitamin C (in the fruit and the carrots), and vitamin A are a good prevention against things like Osteoporosis.
All together the nutrient value of carrots is superb, and when you work out that a cup of juiced carrots and fruit can be between 70 and 100 calories per cup depending on which fruit you mix with the carrots, so it’s ideal for those on diets and it also acts as a good antioxidant.
- Mick Hince
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