How Much Juice is Too Much?

If you are into juicing, have you ever wondered if you can drink too much juice in a day or for that matter at one time?

In other words "How much juice can be consumed safely?"

As a general rule one pint (16 ounces) daily is the minimum that will provide any perceptible results. If you are interested in optimum results you should be taking two to eight pints or more daily. Eight pints equals one gallon (128 ounces).

Bear this in mind the more juice you drink, the quicker you will see results. Any juice squeezed should be consumed within 30 minutes.

In the beginning when juice consumption was first introduced it was suggested that it be taken in small doses. This was mainly because there was no commercial juicing machine on the market at the time. Can you imagine squeezing 128 ounces of carrot juice by hand! Today it is not a problem with some excellent and efficient hydraulic juicers on the market.

There are some some definite principles involved in producing a juice that will retain all the vitamins and minerals that are contained in the original fruit or vegetable. The release of the mineral and chemical eleMents; the vitamins and hormones from the tiny microscopic cells of the fibers of fruits and vegetables, then separating the juice from the fiber is really an art.

The centrifugal juicing machines only extract a very little of the vital eleMents, vitamins, etc. from the fruits and/or vegetables. It is a physical impossibility, using centrifugal juicing machines, to extract more than a certain percenTAGe of the liquid or moisture. Check the pulp after a juice session with a centrifugal machine, see how moist it is. If you took this pulp and processed it through a hydraulic press it would probably render almost as much juice as was produced by the centrifugal process.

Need I say more about the advanTAGe of the hydraulic juicing machine.

Notwithstanding the disadvantages of the inefficient centrifugal juicing machine, there is still some benefit to be derived from such juices, as the water they contain is definitely vital organic, and as such it has a great deal of beneficial nutritional value.

Water is inorganic. Tap or public water has been treated with chlorine and other chemicals which really makes it unfit for human consumption. Just because it does not make a person sick does not necessarily mean that it is benefits the human body. The water in streams and rivers is also inorganic as it does not contain the vital life-containing atoms of fruit and vegetable water.

The only source of vital organic water is derived from vegetation. This means that our fruits and vegetables and the juices from them, which contain the vital organic water, is the only water source that will keep the human system healthy. YES - we also need pure water for continued hydration of the human system, not for nutrition. These fruits and vegetables must be raw and must never be cooked, steamed, canned or otherwise processed or pasteurized.

Drinking juice from which the pulp (mush) "has not" been extracted, taxes the digestive organs MORE than eating the raw fruits and vegetables. When eating raw fruits and vegetables the saliva created by the process of complete mastication is essential to the complete digestion when the cellulose fiber is present.

The correct way to prepare juice is to grind the fruits and vegetables completely which means the complete reduction to a fibrous mass. This mass should be some fine it could be spread like apple butter. A hydraulic press is ideal for this method of juice preparation.

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