What are juice extractors?
Juice extractors are electric machines from a variety of manufacturers such as Breville, Kenwood, Green Star, Omega, Champion, Jack Lalane, Samson, and L’Equip that are used for the extraction of juice from fruits and vegetables. Juice extractors are perfect for freshly blended, refreshing, healthy treats like fruit and vegetable juices. Juice extractors are the best way to get great-tasting, nutritious beverages. Juice extractors are not the same as citrus juicers, which are designed to extract juice from citrus fruits and nothing else. Juice extractors are perfectly suitable for juicing soft and hard fruits and vegetables. Orange, apple and grape juices are excellent juices to be included in a healthy diet. Carrots, wheatgrass, and barley grass have many outstanding health properties.
Types of juice extractors
Automatic juice extractors are generally classified as centrifugal juicers or masticating juicers. Centrifugal juicers use cutters that shred food into small pieces that are spun in a basket (where the centrifuge enters) to extract the juice from the pulp. These centrifugal juicers can create oxidation that degrades nutrients over time, meaning the juice must be drunk immediately. Masticator juicers “chew” the food and are lower speed units that produce a higher quality juice because they produce less oxidation and release more nutrients. The juices produced have a longer shelf life. There is also a third type of juicer and these are hydraulic press juicers, such as the Norwalk juicer, which cuts and grates the product using a vortex grinder, with the resulting mass extracted into a linen bag which is then placed under a hydraulic press. The hydraulic press then exerts a large downforce that allows the Norwalk juicer to extract 50% to 100% more juice than other juicers. These juicers produce very little oxidation and are touted to make the juice more nutrient-dense, but they are also much more expensive than centrifugal or masticating juicers.
What is the best juice extractor?
The answer to this really lies with the user. The fastest juice extractors are centrifugal juicers, but they can’t handle leafy greens and wheatgrass as well as the other types. Hydraulic press juicers produce the best juice but are very expensive. And the masticating juicer requires more physical effort. Therefore, choosing a machine from one manufacturer is not possible, as each manufacturer has a range of home, commercial, professional or professional juice extractors. When shopping for a juice extractor, the best way is to decide what features you need in a machine, the type of juice you want to extract, whether it be from fruits like apples, vegetables like carrots, or leafy greens like wheatgrass, and the necessary power.