Eating and drinking healthy foods and beverages is the key to attaining and maintaining optimum health and preventing illness. Cutting out alcohol and sugar-laden beverages and replacing with healthy homemade fruit juices is not only a better way to a healthy body, but can also help prevent certain medical conditions like Type 2 diabetes. At the same time, preparing home-cooked foods and homemade juices can help cut costs, and you can customize the tastes according to your own liking.
Here I will show you how easy it is to make inexpensive and tasty homemade fruit juices. Add this to my Recipe Box.
Instructions
1. Purchase a manual or electric juice blender to make your fresh fruit juice. The old-fashioned way to make juice is by hand and cutting and squeezing the pieces of fruit to extract the juice from the fleshy pulp. Nowadays, there are many sophisticated juice blenders on the market that have various functions, so you can decide whether you want the pulp separated from the juice extracts or not.
It can also separate the peel and seeds or core from the juice extracts. All of these modern juicers have one common goal, and that is to help the consumer save time and energy and to make delicious and relatively inexpensive homemade fruit juices for family and friends to enjoy.
2. Buy fresh, organic fruits to make the juices. Your local farmers market and whole food stores are the best places to buy these items, and buying in bulk can cut down on cost. You can make bulk amounts of juice at one time and store in the freezer for drinking later or to have whenever you need a fresh juice fix.
3. The most popular fruit juices are: orange, lemon and apple, but there are other types of fruits that can also be made into juice such as papaya, mango and pineapple. Alternatively, you can be creative and mix the juices together to make an exotic blend. These are particularly great to mix in cocktails and a real delight to serve at parties or on a hot summer day.
4. Place the fresh fruits under cool, running water to rinse off dirt and debris. If you prefer a pulp-like consistency to your juice, keep the skin of the fruit on and slice into small pieces and place into the blender; otherwise, carefully peel off the skin, and if it has a center core, remove it along with any seeds.
5. Collect the juice extract from the juicer and pour into storage bottles for freezing or into tall glasses of ice for immediate drinking. Fresh fruit juices should not be left longer than one or two days in the fridge.
* Remember to make sure your storage bottles are clean and sterilized to prevent illness from contamination.
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