Juice Extractor Advice They Don’t Put In The Manual

A juice extractor is one of the easiest kitchen appliances to use. All you have to do is put your fruits and vegetables in the feed chute and juice away. You’ve probably read your juice extractor user’s manual and you already know how to take care of your juicer. But there are other things you can do to help your juicer last longer and how to get the most of your juice extractor. These are simple tips you probably wouldn’t find in the user’s manual but would be very useful as you use your user day by day.

Juice Extractor Tips

• Don’t put bananas in any type of juice extractor. Bananas are too soft and too mushy to be placed in a juicer. If you’re making a fruit juice combo with banana, mash it separately before adding the banana to your juice.

• Make sure to clean your fruits and vegetable thoroughly before you place them in a juice extractor. This will help ensure that the juice you get is clean and it can help prevent damaging your juicer. That’s because small bits of dust, dirt and insects can hide in the corners and crevices of fruits and vegetables. Hard bits of dirt can damage and dull the cutting blades of your juicer.

• When you’re juicing a combination of soft and hard fruits make sure to juice the soft fruits first then juice the hard fruits last. The hard fruits will push any of the remnants left behind by the soft fruits and help make clean up easier.

• They often show in commercials how powerful juice extractor can be and they often demonstrate this by juicing certain fruits with the peel on or seeds still in them. As tempting as it is to try it, you should peel and remove the seeds of certain fruits before putting them in the juicer for several reasons.

First, the rinds and some seeds of some fruits are inedible. Pineapple rinds and peach stones are examples of an inedible rind and seed. If you don’t remove them before juicing, they could add an undesirable taste to your juice.

Secondly, if you’re not using organic fruits and vegetable, pesticides and synthetic fertilizers can accumulate in the seeds and rinds. So unless you’re sure of the source of your produce, take the time to peel your fruits.

Lastly, if you plan to use the pulp left over in the juice extractor, then remove the peel and seeds of your fruits and vegetables. Most especially if you want to use the pulp from the juicer for baby food. Babies can’t digest fruit and vegetable peel and seeds and could hurt their sensitive tummies.

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