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Juicing up the juicer

By Catherine Toth Fox • March 25, 2012 • Food

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My health-conscious vegetarian friend has long espoused the benefits of juicing.

She makes a blend of apples, carrots, kale and ginger. Or beets and cucumbers. Or the stems of broccoli. Really, most fruits and veggies — especially the ones you don’t actually like — can be juiced.

Since I’m not the biggest fan of hearty greens, I decided I’d try this route. I mean, isn’t it easier to drink a head of Swiss chard than actually eat it?

Depends.

I started with a lot of kale and a bit of an apple. But it tasted like drinking blended grass from the backyard. So I added some carrots and a spritz of lemon. Still, barely drinkable.

After a couple of tries, I figured out I like a lot of apples — they overwhelm the taste — and the end result needs to be strained. Otherwise, you’ll eat the foam that’s produced from the juicer. Not appetizing at all.

I wonder how beneficial this is, especially compared to just eating these veggies. You definitely don’t get the fiber — that’s left in the juicer’s reservoir — and the taste can’t be masked by sauces and herbs.

But if you hate veggies, this is a quick way to get those all-important nutrients.

My advice? Just chug it.

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6 Comments

  • Reply EdW March 25, 2012 at 1:50 pm

    “I coulda had a V8”

  • Reply Pam March 25, 2012 at 3:16 pm

    I would rather eat my veggies…so much easier.

  • Reply Dave March 25, 2012 at 4:01 pm

    Only recently I tried apple with ginger & wouldn’t go back to just plain ol’apple. I must try to experiment proper with juice recipes. So far I’ve really only stuck to my comfort zone of oranges & apples (with ginger). I got a recipe book with my juicer that has 100 recipes but still have to try them out.

  • Reply David Jackson March 26, 2012 at 1:21 am

    Some stuff just tastes like &*^&. Some stuff tastes good. Eat stuff that tastes good is a good thing.

  • Reply Annoddah Dave March 26, 2012 at 6:45 am

    CAT: The down side of juicing is you lose a lot of the natural fiber unless you eat the stuff. Seems like a waste.

  • Reply Marvo March 26, 2012 at 3:20 pm

    Whenever I find myself at Nijiya Market, I pick up a bottle of Ito-En Veggie Shot. I think it has 20 different fruits and vegetables in it.

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Born and raised on O‘ahu, Hawaiʻi, Catherine Toth Fox has been chronicling her adventures in her blog, The Cat Dish, for more than a decade. She worked as a newspaper reporter in Hawai‘i for 10 years and continues to freelance—in between teaching journalism, hitting the surf and eating everything in sight—for national and local print and online publications. She’s currently the editor of HAWAIʻI Magazine.

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