From: des@helix.nih.gov (David E. Scheim)
Subject: Re: Juicing: Pros and Cons
Organization: NIH
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 14:27:11 GMT

In article <1992Sep4.201118.6003@terminator.cc.umich.edu> mdg@css.itd.umich.edu (Mike Gallatin) writes:

> 
>Do people have good or bad experiences to share about juicers?
>It seems like an efficient way to supplement your diet with
>vegetables and fruits if you are not much into eating all the
>roughage. As long as you also get enough fiber other ways and
>also eat a fair amount of raw fruit and vegetable, it would
>seem a better way to get nutrients that taking vitamin supplements.
> 
>I've seen price ranges from $60 to about $290 for Mr Juiceman's
>Juicer and have heard people recommend Champion Juicer. The one
>I tried was about $70 and seemed okay--perhaps a little noisy,
>perhaps a bit hard to get screen colander out to clean but it
>did the job.
> 
>It does seem a bit expensive way to use fruit or vegetables though.
>A glass of celery juice took about $1.25 in celeery stalks and it
>was about the same for carrots and a little more for apples--about $2.
>One could certainly not eat the 10-13 carrots or celery that went into
>the drink and it seems an efficient way to extract vitamins and
>minerals from the produce while also saving your digestive system
>the strain of having to extract this juice itself.
> 
>As a supplement it seems a real aid in the kitchen and for
>a vegetarian diet especially if you'd rather drink your meals
>than eat them--but a number of people I talk to are critical
>of it's value and say it's better to eat the fruit or vegetable
>itself and cleaning the juicer is a pain and they break down
>easy etc.
> 
>Any experience out there?
> 
>-- 
>________
> Mike Gallatin-- mdg@css.itd.umich.edu 
>Opinions expressed above are solely my own and have no relation
>          to the organization from which this originates.

I've read on these boards that carrot juice (roughage extracted) still 
contains a substantial amount of soluable fiber, and a posting I seem to 
remember said a glass a day can cut your cholesterol by 15%.  It certainly 
has a lot of beta carotene.  These are the potential benefits, and it seems 
to me that there's little harm in drinking carrot juice regularly.

After some investigation I bought the AEG Phoenix juicer at $150, which 
works well and is easy to clean.  The last point is important, for if you 
get something like the ACME that's difficult to clean (which I once had), 
there's a much greater chance that you'll stop using it.  Another nice 
feature is continuous extraction of pulp so you don't have to stop and clean 
it out while making more than one glass.  There may be other, cheaper 
juicers that work well and have these features.

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