The Importance of Juicing Vegetables

Vegetable juicing has much the same benefits as juicing fruit with key differences. It’s important to vary your juicing recipe to include a wide range of ingredients. Constantly look for new mixed juicer recipes and try to notice fruits at your local market that you’ve never tried before.

One of the ways juicing helps a lot of people are where the texture or particular taste is unappealing. While I always believed, just as you acquire a taste the same is true in reverse. Use juicing as training wheels to eating vegetables.

But the benefit of juicing vegetable differs in that fruits and fruit juices contain much higher levels of sugar than their vegetable counterparts. Another significant difference is that fruits lack the chlorophyll contained in vegetables.

Chlorophyll contained in vegetables do a lot to promote the well being of our bodies. To plants, chlorophyll serves many functions that at this moment are not of our concern. Our concern is the cleansing, antiseptic, cell rejuvenating properties it provides.

The true benefit of chlorophyll is that it helps the blood. All the cleaning and antiseptic stuff is what the blood is suppose to do. Chlorophyll, by being so similar to hemoglobin, the part of the blood that carries oxygen and is what you are really benefiting, increases the amount of hemoglobin making your blood healthier and more effective. The body can convert chlorophyll to make hemoglobin and that makes the blood better at doing what it does.

The number of benefits from consuming massive amounts of chlorophyll has been increasing with new discoveries. The most obvious ones include increase in blood count, stabilization of sugar levels in the blood, and relief of gastric ulcers. There are also detoxifying and cleansing effects as a result of consuming chlorophyll.

Knowing that chlorophyll is what makes vegetables green, any vegetable contains chlorophyll and more in more green vegetables. But the ultimate richest sources of chlorophyll are from alfalfa, barley grass, chlorella, spirulina and wheatgrass. Depending on where you’re from some of these produces may not be readily available. Do your best to vary the ingredients in your juice regularly.

Chlorella is important for another reason. So to get two major deficiencies covered in one food, eating chlorella is the way to go. Other than being high in chlorophyll, it is also high in vitamin B12 which is found in animal products but rare in plants. Especially if you are vegetarian, look for chlorella tablets as the produce itself may be hard to find.