High Speed Centrifugal Juicers Destroy Enzymes

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UK Juicers is committed to providing our customers with useful information that sticks to the facts. We don’t offer information or make claims that can’t be borne out by objective testing. Unfortunately that’s not a principle that is very widespread in the world of sales talk on the internet and we’d like to help you sort the facts from the quackery.To get more news about Spiral juicing machine, you can visit hl-juicer.com official website.

Juicing is growing rapidly as a lifestyle choice and more and more people are researching online to inform their choices when selecting products. At the same time manufacturers are in a race to persuade people that their juicer is the best offering, competing with ‘new features’ that supposedly deliver increasingly better results. Sometimes it’s not easy to tell what features are genuinely beneficial and what is just marketing hype.
If you are researching buying a juicer there are quite a few sources of information on the web that promote pseudo-science to try and persuade you that one particular model is the ultimate ‘must have’ machine. Here are some of the unproven claims that you will probably come across.
Centrifugal Juicers DEFINITELY DO NOT DESTROY ENZYMES. This is pure fantasy and it’s become a great marketing ploy for some people who sell masticating juicers. Even we used to accept this unproven scare-mongering, because it was so widely repeated by eminently respectable people. Max Gerson contributed to this myth with his claims about the oxidation of enzymes by Centrifugal Juicers but although the Gerson Therapy is widely respected, no scientific evidence supporting the idea that Centrifugal Juicers destroy enzymes is available.

Basic research published by Michael Donaldson PhD has shown that there is significant enzyme activity in the juice from various models of centrifugal juicers. Some websites claim that the high speed friction in a centrifugal juicer heats the enzymes and kills them. Some claim that the high speed tears the enzyme molecules apart. This is all unproven nonsense. For a juicer to kill enzymes the resulting juice would have to be heated well above blood temperature and no juicer we’ve yet tested does that.

SpinachMasticating juicers do extract greater amounts of some nutrients, so if getting the best juice quality is number one priority you can find out about the differences between masticating juicers in our choosing a juicer section. But you shouldn’t be scared into spending hundreds of pounds on a masticating juicer because of the myth that centrifugal juicers produce poor quality juice with no enzymes. Centrifugal juicers are the most common and popular choice and they offer great health benefits when used regularly. A very user friendly example of this type of juice extractor is the Sage Nutri Juicer Cold Plus. The best feature of most good quality centrifugal juicers is that they are quick and easy to use and a small compromise in overall performance is often acceptable in a busy household where juicing needs to happen fast.
This is sort of true, but people then get caught up in a search for the slowest turning juicer in the belief that it will give more nutritious juice. Twin Gear and Single Auger Masticating Juicers work better at low speeds because of their juicing action. All masticating juicers give a more nutritious juice by breaking down the fibre of the fruit and vegetables more thoroughly, releasing more nutrients into the juice. They do this because of their chewing and grinding action, not because of how slowly they must work. If you had to choose between a model that turns at 100 RPM and one that turns at 50 RPM will the slower one give more nutritious juice? No, because nutrient extraction is about much more than speed alone.

There are two main factors that determine juice yield and juice quality. First there is the degree to which the ingredients are broken down by the juicing process and second is the force used to separate the juice from the pulp. Masticating juicers that are capable of juicing greens and wheatgrass as well as other ingredients are able to do so because they break down these fine leaves thoroughly by passing them through a smaller gap between the juicing parts. To do this without creating too much heat and friction, these juicers have to operate slowly. The speed is a design limitation – it is not a key feature! But now manufacturers are in a backwards race to make their juicers turn more slowly than everybody else’s!
The quantity of juice extracted is determined by the pressure or force used to extract it. In masticating juicers this force is created by the size of the pulp outlet and in a centrifugal juicer it’s the rotational speed that creates the centrifugal force to separate out the juice. Even the humble centrifugal delivers a very high yield of juice from most hard fleshed ingredients. In most cases the difference in juice yield, just like the difference in juice quality, is not huge. Low speed juicers may be a bit more versatile, but in most cases there is a price to pay in the time you spend juicing. If you are choosing a low speed juicer, whether is turns at 40, 80, 90 or 180 revs is not going to be a significant factor in determining juice yield and juice quality.