Fresh Carrot Juice – Best Bang for the Buck to Build Your Health
This is John Kohler with discountjuicers.com,
today I have another exciting episode for
you and what we’re going to talk about today
is one of my favorite juices, especially when
I first got started into juicing many, many,
many, many years ago, I can remember my parents
actually bringing out our old school centripetal
non-ejection juicer and making carrot juice
in there and just loving it as a child. I
think every kid should be exposed to carrot
juice, especially because of all its nutrition.
In any case, some people may have heard “Carrot
juice is so high in sugar.” Well yes, carrot
juice does have more sugar in it that’s
more readily absorbed than a whole carrot
does, but I want to remind you guys, good,
better, best, right? A glass of carrot juice
is going to probably have about half as much
sugar as a soda. So if you’re like “Carrot
juice has a lot of sugar,” and then you
grab a soda and drink it, dude you’re drinking
twice the amount of sugar in the soda. In
addition if you’re like “Carrot juice
has a lot of sugar,” and then you’re just
drinking an orange juice, orange juice also
has more sugar in it than the same amount
of carrot juice, so I want you guys to be
aware of that. If carrot juice is going to
allow you to eat something healthier, such
as more fruits and vegetables instead of your
normal whatever you eat, for example, a donut,
or a carrot juice, what’s healthier? Of
course the carrot juice. What’s healthier,
some bread or some carrot juice? I choose
the carrot juice you know? I always want to
encourage you guys to just take your diet
to the next level and eat more fresh fruits
and vegetables, whether they’re fresh, whole,
juiced or blended, fresh fruits and vegetables
in my opinion are the way to go and that’s
why I like the juicers, because the juices
allow you to get more of the good stuff, the
vegetables especially, in you, because most
people wouldn’t sit here and eat a couple
of pounds of carrots, but you can easily juice
them, get them into the glass, and have that
in an easily [inaudible] form. So once you
juice the carrots you no longer have to chew,
the fiber is what holds your body back from
digesting all the nutrition in the carrots,
and that’s why I like to remove the fiber,
because as Jay Kordich, formerly known as
the Juice Man said, it’s the juice of the
fiber that feeds you. And Jay actually got
me started on my healthy diet and lifestyle
kick that I’m now on, that I now have the
opportunity to share with you because I almost
lost my life when I was younger due to a life-threatening
illness called spinal meningitis and complement
immune deficiency.
In any case let’s talk more about the carrot.
So number one reason why I like the carrots
is because they are the least expensive fruit
or vegetable that I have found to juice. If
you go to the store carrots are usually the
lowest priced vegetable you can find. Sometimes
I’ve seen them lately for as low as 19 cents
a pound. You always want to buy organic carrots
whenever possible and if you can afford it.
That being said, non-organic carrots, juicing
them are far better than still the coffee,
the soda, or processed and bottled non-organic
juices. I always encourage you guys to make
foods fresh yourself at home using the real
stuff, maybe even growing your own produce
if you can. Because fruits and vegetables
have the highest level of nutrition and we
want to get it in their peak state, not already
processed, not already bottled up for you,
because when they do that they have to use
heat to pasteurize it to kill off the enzymes
and also the bacteria in there to make it
a shelf-stable process, and when they do that
you lose nutrition. So by purchasing your
own carrots and juicing them yourself or better
yet growing them yourself, you’re going
to have the highest level of nutrition so
you can be the highest level of person you
can be.
So let’s talk about the carrots, what we
have here is a bag of hydro cooled organic
juice carrots, and this is my favorite brand,
this is actually called the Bunny Love brand.
Now the Bunny Love brand is made by Grimmway
Farms in Bakersfield, and they have extremely
sweet carrots. Number one they probably have
a specific variety of carrot that’s unique
to them, because some carrots that I’ve
juiced even if organic have tasted like dirt
and taste like crap, like no good to me. But
these guys taste really sweet and I’d much
rather drink some carrot juice made with the
Bunny Love carrots than milk any day because
they’re just far sweeter, and just taste,
and it’s so much more satisfying to me.
That being said you want to buy carrots in
bulk if you’re going to be juicing them,
because you’re going to save money. Ask
at your local health food store for the juice
carrots in the 25 pound bag, that’s what
this is here, I get a little workout while
I’m doing it. And my trick is once you buy
the carrots you want to come home and wash
them, I like to brush them off with a little
vegetable brush just under the water and scrub
them down, but not remove the skin, remember
most of the nutrients are contained within
or near the skin on these and if you do buy
conventional carrots you may want to peel
them, as conventional carrots are probably
in the middle of the clean 15 in dirty dozen
[inaudible] right in the middle. So I do encourage
you guys to buy organic whenever possible,
or better yet grow your own. And if you are
going to grow your own, I encourage you grow
heirloom varieties of carrots. We all think
of carrots as being orange, carrots come in
many other different colors – red, yellow,
purple, even white carrots. So grow your own,
heirloom carrots or if you can afford to find
them, buy them in the different colors because
they have all different levels of carotenoids
and nutrition that’s really good for you
that you’re not getting in the standard
orange carrots. So yeah, buy in bulk to save
some money, let’s go ahead and put that
over there, now that is still fairly expensive
to buy this way, the cheapest way to buy organic
carrots that I’ve found is in 10 pound bags,
and these are a little bit lighter. And these
guys are actually from the local Costco, most
Costco’s and maybe other warehouse club
stores may sell organic carrots like this,
and they’re normally around 50 cents a pound
so that’s actually the lowest price for
any organic food I’ve found. So what I like
to do is I like to bring these home, top them,
meaning cut off the tops and then wash them
and put them in a plastic tote in the fridge
so that at any time I can pull that tote out
and just put them through the juicer and have
fresh juice. I want to make it easy and convenient
for you guys to make these foods that are
so healthy for you. I mean it’s easy to
go in the fridge, pop the top off a soda and
drink it, but once you got the carrots prepped
bring it out, put them through the juicer,
this juicer’s self-feeding that’s why
I like this machine. Make a glass and drink
it, clean the juicer, takes me less than three
minutes, and boom you’re done, onto the
next thing you need to do and you’re all
fueled up with some of the best foods on earth.
So without further ado let’s go ahead and
get into the carrot juicing. We got the carrots
here that are already pre-washed and I cut
all the tops off already. And the one thing
you want to do is you see the top there, you
always want to cut this guy off right here,
just cut it off like that, because on the
top there sometimes there’s mold and bacteria
and dirt in there. It’s just kind of gross
and you don’t want to be juicing that stuff.
So I cut that off. Now one of the biggest
benefits to me of the carrots are the carotenoids
and more in general the antioxidants and phytochemicals
and phytonutrients in the carrots. It’s
reported to help maybe clean your liver, allow
you to have cleaner skin, like blemish-free
skin. It also has reported, in some cases
people use this to heal cancer and whatnot.
You have to look further into that, I’m
not making any medical claims, you have cancer
or other illness please consult your medical
practitioner. Although I do know that there’s
a therapy called the Gerson therapy where
it’s actually have to do down in Mexico
where they give people carrot juice and apples,
and they heal people from cancer from what
I’ve read online. And there’s actually
a really good documentary online about Gerson
therapy that you may want to watch as well
if you’re interested in that. But carrots
are a wealth of nutrition, besides the beta
carotene there’s vitamin E and for me the
carrots are all about the minerals. I mean
these are root vegetables. They grow beneath
the soil, and that’s where a lot of the
nutrition is stored that feeds the green tops
up above. Now if you do have the green tops
yes, you can juice the green tops as well.
If you are juicing them in the Vert you will
need to cut them up into eighth inch pieces
for best results and alternate feeding the
tops plus the carrots, that’ll help push
the pulp through the machine. If you are considering
the Omega Vert Juicer I do recommend you watch
my video “Best Practices Omega Vert” to
find out specifically to use this so that
you get the best results. One of the problems
with the Omega Vert is that it does tend to
make a pulpier juice than other juicers, plus
the ejection port can get clogged up if you’re
not using it properly. That being said I am
using this juicer today because it runs at
a low 80 rpms. Many of the other videos you
may see on YouTube are high-speed juicers
that have three inch wide feed chutes and
they’re shoving five carrots in there at
once and it just comes out really fast, and
you know those juicers are good if you want
speed and all, but in my opinion, they’re
not so good if you want nutrition. And I’m
all about juicing for nutrition, juicing for
the health benefits and not just doing it
to be done fast. While this is fairly fast,
it also runs at a lower rpm which is going
to preserve more nutrition in the juice, because
actually that’s what I’m after in the
end. And some of the research I’ve seen
suggests that low-speed juicers can pull out
50% more of the nutrients. So while you may
be done faster you may be losing 50% of the
nutrients in the pulp because they’re not
getting extracted into the glass, and that
means you’re not going to drink them.
So without further ado let’s go ahead and
turn this machine on, and this is how easy
it is to juice in the Omega Vert. Number one
you will not be using the pusher, just dump
the carrot in there and check it out. It’s
literally self-feeding. And once that one
goes through you’re going to put the next
one in. As you can see we’re getting some
delicious carrot juice out here, and then
we’re getting the carrot pulp there, let’s
go ahead and put another one in. I mean this
couldn’t be any simpler to do this, and
in no time at all we’re going to have a
delicious glass of fresh carrot juice to drink.
One of the things I want to mention is when
buying carrots to juice in the Omega Vert
it’s far better get a skinny diameter carrots
that you can because they’re going to be
more easily juiced than nice fat carrots.
Here’s a fat diameter carrot these are skinny
carrots. The fat carrots – oh it barely
fits in the feed chute, and if you do you
can’t feed it in really fast because it
may stop up the juicer, but actually that
one was all right. So I like to get the skinny
carrots if you’re buying the juice carrots,
the bag of juice carrots those are the odd-shaped
ones, so that’s when you’ll probably get
fat ones, skinny ones, and all kinds of different
ones. Because those aren’t being sold as
the regular carrots. But there’s no difference
in the juice carrots. Now in some cases I’ve
actually seen the non-organic juice carrots
for 25 pounds for six bucks. You know and
ask at your local grocery store if they can
specially order them for you, because generally
most of them can, but they don’t sell enough
volume to have it as an in-stock item unless
you’re some place where people keep horses,
then a lot of times people feed their horses
those juice carrots. As you can see here we’re
almost done juicing these carrots in the Omega
Vert juicer. It’s going nice and slow, just
how I like it, maximize the nutrition in the
juice. And to me there’s nothing better
than fresh carrot juice for a mid-morning
snack. So let’s juice the last carrot here,
one more carrot right through the juicer.
Now the last thing I want to share with you
guys today is that when I first got started
juicing I pretty much juiced for breakfast.
I’d have as much juice as I wanted for breakfast,
and skip my normal breakfast. Because the
whole purpose of juicing is to get more fresh
fruits and vegetables in you because frankly,
most people do not eat enough fruits and vegetables
and juicing makes it fun, easy, convenient
and actually a really good way that your body
could absorb the nutrition from the vegetables,
because most people aren’t going to sit
there and chew the carrot 200 times like they’re
supposed to into a mush. That’s why we feed
babies baby food, they don’t got the teeth,
but because we have the teeth we’re supposed
to chew our food into mush as if we were babies.
Did you get that one? Anyways our juice is
all finished, and when I first got into juicing
I’d literally just drink juice and I’d
juice five pounds of carrots instead of my
normal breakfast. And I would just drink that
for breakfast, I’d have my normal lunch,
mid-afternoon I’d have another couple cups
of carrots and in general, one pound of carrots
equals one cup of juice. And as to how much
you should be drinking, I can only say for
me I like to drink about 32 ounces of juice
in one sitting. If you’re not used to that
much you may want to start off with less or
actually even dilute the juice with some water
so that it’s not as strong for you.
All right, we’re done making the juice,
let’s go ahead and try this baby. Mmm, so
delicious, so good. Now I am tasting a bit
of pulp in there, some people may like the
pulp some people may not, this is just a total
preference thing. There’s pros and cons
to a little bit of pulp in the juice. I have
heard that it can help keep the juice stable
longer. Another thing that I want to mention
is that once you do make the vegetable juice,
you always want to make a little bit more
for a friend, a neighbor, a wife, a son, a
daughter, or a co-worker at work and give
them some, and get them turned onto some of
the fresh juices too to let them know what
you’re doing, but also to give them a taste
of real food and who knows, maybe they’ll
get into juicing too. If you don’t like
the pulp in the juice you can just buy a simple
strainer like this, pour the juice through
the strainer, and remove all the extra pulp,
and you’ll have a pulp-free juice. I personally
like more pulp-free juices in most cases unless
it’s a fruit juice, and it just tastes so
much cleaner and so much better when 100%
of the fiber is removed in my opinion.
So I hope you guys enjoyed this episode learning
more about the carrots, the juice carrots,
the organic carrots and the lowest cost juice
you can make, and once again I’m using the
Omega Vert 330 HD in this video, and the Omega
Vert 330 is in a series of Omega Vert juicers,
Omega Vert 350 and the all-new Omega Vert
400, which is actually the latest model which
is the model I like the most, and is the best
buy for your money in my opinion. So I want
to encourage you guys to drink the carrot
juice instead of the soda, even instead of
the orange juice, and just to get more fresh
fruits and vegetables in you. And remember,
good, better, best – if carrot juice is
going to allow you to drink more and eat more
vegetables than you normally would, then it’s
a good thing. If it’s not, then maybe it’s
not so good. But most people are in the category
where drinking carrot juice in my opinion
is going to be definitely a benefit instead
of a hindrance. Once again my name is John
Kohler with discountjuicers.com, be sure to
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