Welcome to The Daily Juicer
Welcome to the Daily Juicer!
This is a site put together by a juice enthusiast, for juice enthusiasts. Do you Juice? If so, you already know how great freshly squeezed fruit and vegetable juice tastes. Yes, pre-squozen juices that one can buy off the supermarket shelves can be handy at times, but once you’ve had the real thing, you’re gonna be hooked!
My own juicing habit started about 2 years ago, at a point in my life when my health was just going from bad to worse. I started juicing normal things – apples, oranges – and soon graduated to stuff like celery, carrots, capsicum and tomatoes. I have never looked back! Fresh juice is almost a food in itself, and we all know that raw fruits and vegetables are good for us. And what can I say? It simply makes me feel GREAT.
Think about it – how many raw carrot sticks can you eat in one sitting? Well, I can juice up three pounds of celery, green peppers, carrots, apples and ginger and drink that in an afternoon while I do my housework. There is simply no better health boost. You can’t get fresher than this. Not to mention that you can make a glass of juice to have at special occasions, who needs wine when your juice is handmade and so fresh?
Thanks to Stephen Cummings for this image.
Since I started my own juicing at home, I’ve learnt a lot about different kinds of juicers and what they do best. I’ve set up this site to share what I have learnt, and hopefully inspire a few people along the way. I get angry when I see or hear about health practitioners trying to convince people that they can fix their lives with drugs or terribly expensive supplements. Yes, sometimes they are necessary but seriously – fresh, raw foods are the best possible and most easily absorbed source of vitamins and minerals. And guess what: making your own juice at home is cheap compared with those supplements. By blogging here at Daily Juicer I would love to contribute to bring daily juicing to more people worldwide, especially those who are busy, who work outside the home and those who are simply not sure where to start. I am here to help you.
My family love the juice that we make, and we drink it every day. We’ve got no blown-out-of-proportion weight loss boasts to tell you, although both myself and my partner do find juice helps us to stay slim, and to keep illnesses at bay – the last time we really had a cold or flu was several years ago. I won’t try and sell you acai berries or goji berries or any other kind of fancy new berry or tell you to go on this diet or that, or start making fabulously erroneous claims. Any juice is better than no juice, is my motto, and even though goji berries may indeed make extremely good juice, so do a a bunch of celery sticks, a head of lettuce, a cucumber and a few apples – all things you will probably have in your refrigerator right now, or can easily grab at your local grocery store. I’m all about enabling…
Yes, I am passionate: about my health, about my families health. Hopefully I can provide some insight and inspiration to you with the info I have put together on these pages.
All the best. Laurie.
Juicer, juicer, juicer... What's in my fridge today that I can juice? As I say, any juice is better than no juice - so start right now with what's in the crisper, and work your way upwards from there!
Los Beneficios de las Plantas Curativas – Propiedades del Jugo de Aloe Vera
People have been using healing plants for many years to improve both their physical and mental health. One of the most popular plants is Aloe Vera; its juice is well known and valued for the powerful properties it possesses. Aloe Vera can help combat the effects of aging, heals burns and is also a great anti inflammatory agent…
(In Spanish) Desde tiempos remotos el ser humano ha utilizado el poder que tienen ciertas plantas para mejorar tanto la salud, como el estado físico y de ánimo. Una de las plantas curativas con más beneficios es el aloe vera. Contiene nada más y nada menos que 18 aminoácidos y su jugo es muy valorado por su poder como purgante.
Beber jugo de aloe vera con regularidad puede mejorar la regularidad intestinal y al mismo tiempo incrementar la absorción de proteínas. También es bueno para la acidez de estómago y otros tipos de malestares de carácter digestivo.
El jugo de esta maravillosa planta tiene unas doce substancias naturales que ayudan a reducir inflamaciones en general sin que aparezcan efectos secundarios. También es muy bueno para mantener la piel sana y tersa. La piel en los seres humanos se regenera cada veinte y pico días. Esta utiliza los componentes básicos nutritivos que posee el aloe vera para así combatir los efectos del 
envejecimiento. El jugo de esta planta también sirve de gran ayuda para el sistema inmunológico del cuerpo.
El gel de carácter pegajoso que produce esta planta curativa se puede utilizar también para las quemaduras. Muchas veces encontrarás que las cremas que compras en farmacias y tiendas como herboristerías contienen aloe vera como un ingrediente activo en las mismas. Prácticamente se puede decir que esta maravillosa planta es un remedio curativo para todo; desde algunos tipos de cáncer hasta la caída del cabello. Es una buena idea cultivar el aloe en casa, ya que no sólo es buena para la salud sino que además es muy bonita como planta decorativa.
Si tienes pensado crecer aloe vera en tu casa y no tienes jardín tan sólo necesitas un poco de espacio en el balcón para colocar la maceta. Es una planta muy agradecida y bastante ideal para el jardinero que no tiene mucha experiencia. Es una planta de zonas áridas y lugares soleados como las Islas Canarias en España, donde se da mucho. En los meses de invierno no hace falta prestarle tanta atención siempre y cuando las temperaturas no sean tremendamente frías. Durante el verano, se debe regar una vez cada diez días más o menos y proceder a su fertilización una o dos veces durante la temporada.
En cualquier directorio de articulos enfocado al tema de las plantas curativas encontrarás extensa información sobre el aloe vera y otras plantas con grandes propiedades como lo son el anís, la albahaca, caléndula, manzanilla, hinojo, lavanda, menta, muérdago y el girasol.
Time to get a lime juicer to give your cooking a brand new zing
Are you thinking about getting a lime juicer? Now is a good time to do it. Limes are in season and are a great way to give your cooking a brand new zing. Limes are used less often than lemons so the taste will be noticed as something different and interesting. It’s actually amazing just how much a squirt of lime juice will do for your dish. I even used some recently in a batch of jam where lemon juice was called for. I had no lemons, but I did have limes from my last grocery shopping trip so I cut on up, squeezed it with my lime juicer, and out came the juice into the jam, where it flavoured the batch in a very mellow yet zingy way.
Zing seems like a funny word for me to keep using but honestly, it is the word to describe limes. I really like using them because they have a sharp yet mellow flavour which is not glaringly obvious, but when you taste for a moment you can notice something there. Lime juice can also be loud, as in homemade lime cordial made with just limes and sugar and water. Because there is nothing else to cover or confuse the taste of the lime in the mouth, it will come across as quite loud. Lime marmalade is also strong, but you don’t use a lime juicer for that of course, you cook the limes in a saucepan.
Reasons when you need to use a lime juicer? If you want to make lime cordial or lime juice. When you need lime juice for a cake recipe or another form of baking, for instance if you are cooking and you want to add lime juice to a sauce, casserole, stew, or soup. Many Asian dishes call for limes, for which a lime juicer makes it a lot easier to get your lime juice into the dish. Other ways you may want to use your lime juicer are if you are adding pure fresh lime juice to a cocktail or mocktail with mixer drinks and other alcohols or fruit punch ingredients.
Lime juicers can be the same as lemon juicers or other citrus juicers in that they come as either a reamer, a press or an auger/masticating mechanism. It is possible juice limes in a centrifugal juicer as well but mostly you wouldn’t because generally limes are needed only in small quantites and a centrifugal juicer is made to do larger batches of juice – for instance, a bowlful of oranges or carrots or apples. Best for limes really is a simple reamer or lime press, which can come in a range of types from plain wood to the amazing Metrokane juicer.
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