All Juiced-Up: Breville-lize Your Juice

One glass that's all-natural, low-calorie, and low sugar, with loads of fresh and energizing nutrients...all you need to reboot your life back on track... 

Joe Cross, author of the New York Times bestseller Reboot with Joe Juice Diet and the documentary Fat, Sick, and Nearly Dead, recounted his personal journey to recovery and health hitting the road with a Breville juicer (for more on Joe Cross and his incredible and inspirational journey to health, check out his cool site here). A hundred pounds overweight and suffering from a debilitating autoimmune disease, Joe Cross knew he had to drastically change his lifestyle and turned to the only option left: the body's natural ability to heal itself. Joe Cross abandoned his typical junk food diet and got off the pills and conventional medication with just one goal, regain his natural health with a balanced and healthy lifestyle. "By drinking green juice, I successfully lost the weight and got myself off all prescription drugs and truly rebooted my life. Now I am free of my autoimmune disease, I live a happy and balanced life at a healthy weight and I could never imagine returning to my old ways again..." says Joe Cross, director and creator of Fat, Sick, and Nearly Dead and Reboot with Joe's CEO. And if he can do it, so can you...with Breville's line of Fast Green Juicers.

In one afternoon, I get to experience the fast, easy, and uncomplicated science of Fast Green Juicing with Breville, transforming all kinds of fruits and vegetables into potent glasses of energy-filled, all-natural juices. That afternoon, I discovered all all-natural flavors from the freshest vegetables and fruits in a totally new and refreshing way. 

But you need some real good hardware to start your Fast Green Juicing journey. Breville's line of Fast Green Juicers allow you to extract all the nutrients from vegetables and fruits with minimum effort. It's as easy as simply topping the fruits and vegetables and pushing it down with the Breville Fast Green Juicer, with stems and skin on.

Whether you choose the Breville Juice Fountain Max, the Breville Froojie Fountain, or the heavy duty Breville Froojie Fountain Pro used by restaurants and institutional outlets and built to juice for an army, your journey to health is fast-tracked by Breville, extracting all the flavors and nutrients you need at a push of a button. Each Breville Fast Green Juicer extracts all the essential nutrients within minutes, as it conveniently separates the pulp from the liquid at the same time, unlike an ordinary slow juicer, blender or food processor, so you get pure liquid nutrition in a glass (for more on Breville's line of innovative products, check out their website here and their line of Fast Green Juicers here). The debate between slow juicers and blenders versus Breville's Fast Green Juicers are settled immediately during the demo, with the Breville Fast Green Juicer clearly yielding more juice with hard fruits and vegetables like apples and carrots, with fast juicers transferring less heat  than slow juicers for healthier extractions. 

Part of my Breville experience was to create my very own all-natural juice blend, and Breville showcased a wide selection of the freshest fruits and vegetables, quite literally bringing the farmers market to their corporate offices. As a simple guide, the colors of the various fruits and vegetables have their own distinct benefits (R). 

Red fruits and vegetables for a healthy heart. Yellow and orange for healthy joints and vision. Green to detox and a healthy liver. White for improved blood pressure. And blue and purple for long life and improved memory. And it all starts with the freshest, all-natural greens and produce, and combining different kinds of vegetables with fruits present an infinite and almost limitless variety of options and flavors.   

Simply wash and clean the vegetables and fruits (skin on), and you're ready to start juicing, and nothing can be simpler or easier. Juicing isn't complicated nor is it rocket science (know more about juicing here), and Breville makes it fast and easy with its line of fast juicers.   

To start, follow the basic 80/20 Ratio, with 80% green and leafy vegetables blended with 20% fruits for flavor. That way, you get the maximum level of nutrients as the fruits add their natural sweetness and tartness to balance the flavors. Choose from green, leafy vegetables like Chinese cabbage (pechay), lettuce, spinach, even string beans...

...winged beans (sigarilyas), water cabbage or river spinach (kangkong), and even the mildly bitter yet healthy and leafy Moringa (malunggay). In fact, you can use any green leafy vegetable as your base, or stick to your favorite greens. Then, blend it with variety of other vegetables for flavor, like carrots... 

 ...fresh squash,  sayote, bittersweet gourds, and even sugar cane for that soothing and refreshing sweetness ideal for tempering the mild bitterness of the vegetables. The variety of fresh vegetables and fruits clearly highlighted the versatility of Breville's line of Fast Green Juicers, and that perfect juice blend is limited only by your imagination.

Add that vibrant tartness to your own juice blend with the infusion of fresh pineapple, lemon, and even calamansi, along with red and green apples and cucumbers. You don't even have to peel the skins from the apples, lemons, and even the calamansi, the Breville Fast Green Juicer easily takes care of that. Want an extra kick? Add ginger...

Since most of the nutrients are found on the skin of fruits, just leave it and simply drop it in the Breville Fast Green Juicer, skin and all. And that goes for the stems of the vegetables too. Guests were then invited to blend their own juices, and it was just amazing seeing how all the fruits and vegetables were liquified and transformed in mere seconds...

And here's a cool tip. If you love using apples for your juices, add a lemon to your blend to keep the juice looking fresh and bright by preventing the natural oxidation process. Breville's Fast Green Juicer line yields more nutrients from the vegetables and fruits extracting up to 70%, packing it with all the beneficial all-natural goodness for a potent and energized glass. And what's amazing is that it can juice practically any vegetable or fruit. And even more amazing, my glass of green juice tasted even better than I imagined. That afternoon, we created a variety of fruit and vegetable blends, and you can feel the energizing and filling effects almost immediately. I'm definitely getting one of these and starting my own personal journey with all-natural juices...

For refreshing and healthy juice blends and recipes, check out Breville's link here and go on your own personal journey to health and wellness.

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