Table of contents hide 1 Nutrition and purification with juices, smoothies and creams 2 Differentiate between juice and smoothie 3 Differentiate between a smoothie and a raw cream 4 Nourish and purify at the same time 5 Juices 6 Nutritional value and properties 7 Juice extraction 8 Types of juices and guidelines 9 Smoothies and creams 10 How to beat food? 11 Types of shakes and guidelines

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Nutrition and purification with juices, smoothies and creams

To obtain nutritious and healthy juices and smoothies, you have to observe certain guidelines and aspects. One of them is that, when designing them, the mixtures between the foods that compose them are compatible. It is also important the specific aspect or virtue that you want to enhance with them, thus creating a balanced result for the organism and at the same time for the palate. The palate is the brain activator that starts the entire digestive and assimilation system; It is the one that will predispose us to satisfaction and with it the desire to repeat and enjoy the magnificent virtues of juices and milkshakes.

Differentiate between juice and smoothie

From a food you can get a smoothie or cream, or a juice. Let's see the difference between juices and milkshakes, their elaboration and their virtues.

When juice is made correctly, only the pulp and the almost dry fiber are removed, so that with the juice a greater amount of nutrients is obtained than with the smoothie. These nutrients enter directly into the body and the digestion process is shortened, with the consequent energy savings that this entails. As they provide energy instantly, the body focuses on cleaning, detoxification and repair. For serious health problems or for rapid detoxification, drinking plenty of green juices will be invaluable.

When shakes are made, a pre-digested food is obtained with all the nutrients it can offer and all the fiber, so they satisfy more and, in a way, help cleanse the colon; although yes, they detoxify more slowly due to their slower digestion. The green smoothie cleans and restores health much faster than if the vegetables are eaten in solid state by chewing them or as a cream, since to be digested they overload the digestive and metabolic system more and their effectiveness is also reduced by being transformed into cooking n.

Differentiate between a smoothie and a raw cream

The difference is that in the cream we use some of the thickening foods such as avocado and in that the cream can be heated to a temperature of up to 45 C. With this, we conserve all its nutritional power and, at the same time, we obtain a texture and conditions very similar to that of a cream with boiled vegetables.

Nourish and purify at the same time

If what we are looking for is a high purification accompanied by good nutrition, we will preferably use cold pressed and freshly made juices, thus achieving different purifying and nutritive purposes. Through a light and rapid digestion with hardly any energy consumption and immediate action in blood.

In all cases, the freshness of the food to be used is always important and that its origin is of ecological origin. Use juices, milkshakes and creams to heal your body and your mind; they will thank you very much and you will enjoy a happy and harmonious life.

Juices

It is possible to obtain juice from almost any food, since this process only consists of extracting the water or rather the physiological serum that they contain depending on the type of food. The physiological water that surrounds all the cells that compose it and that form its structure, contains nutritive substances as reserves of cellular needs. All foods contain water in greater or lesser quantity.

When pressing a food, we release that physiological water loaded with nutrients and it also carries the nutrients that are found in the cells and in the fiber, thus forming a powerful nutritional concentrate of very easy and rapid assimilation. On the other hand, if what is desired is to ingest the same nutritional value with the whole food or shake, a large quantity will have to be consumed, making it unfeasible to reach the same nutritional value; that without counting the energy consumption that this represents when having to process all the fiber that the foods contain.

With a juice we obtain the three great needs of a body and its physical constitution: pure water, energy nutrients and nutrients that constitute the functional tools. With which we can have all the essential nutrition for the organic system to function properly.

Nutritional Value and Properties

By pressing the vegetables, the cell walls are broken and this makes the nutrients more bioavailable. Raw plant foods contain valuable basic nutrients such as enzymes, vitamins, minerals, amino acids, bioflavonoids, phytonutrients, biophotons ...

The high chlorophyll content in green juices has detoxifying and antioxidant properties and is an important source of vitamins and minerals; It facilitates the production of blood and its circulation and helps to balance the metabolism and functioning of the liver, kidneys, colon and the entire digestive system, healing the lining of the stomach, esophagus and small and large intestine.

Juices are the best nutritional supplement, since the concentration of nutrients quickly and directly penetrates the bloodstream. For those people who suffer from severe nutritional deficiencies and have a highly irritated digestive system or with digestive and metabolic conditions and who find it very difficult to tolerate some fibers, juices will be a very valuable, nutritious and restorative food, easy to transit and assimilate.

The German doctor Max Gerson was one of the pioneers in advising vegetable juice. He suffered terrible headaches that he finally cured with these juices. He used them massively in his patients and realized that vegetable juice was a metabolic therapy capable of curing virtually any disease.

"Juices are light with a concentration of pure life, and life generates life."

Juice extraction

In the market there are various devices with which to obtain food juices. Let's look at the differences between them and which one is best suited to preserve all their value. The best known devices are blenders and juicers; The least known are the presses.

• Blenders: They separate the liquid from the pulp, but it takes quite a part of it. Its way of extracting the liquid is by crushing, centrifuging and subsequent filtration. Some destruction and oxidation of the food occurs with the friction of the blades and the heat generated by having to tear and break the fiber and sensitive nutrients such as the enzymes contained in the food are damaged. The stability of the juice lasts less time and the loss of nutrients is high, since there is still a lot of them in the pulp.
• Juicers: Squeeze the food to extract the juice and release some fiber. They only serve for juicy fruits of thick peel. Some of the nutrients and juice are lost.
• Pressers : Compress any food until you get all its juice, separating the fiber from the liquid by means of a screw system that squeezes it at low speed until you extract all the possible juice from the food. All parts of the food can be pressed: the skin, the skin, and even nuts and seeds can be pressed. The juice conserves almost all its nutrients intact without causing oxidation and cold storage, between 4 and 5 C, it can be 3 4 days in very good condition.

The juice will contain only the liquid part of the food and ideally to obtain it will be a slow screw presser and better if it is made of stainless steel 316 for nutritive destruction and oxidation They are smaller.

Types of juices and guidelines

To get the most out of juices, it is better to differentiate between those of vegetables, fruits and oil foods, such as nuts and seeds. The chemical compatibility between food plays its role, although to a lesser extent as it is a liquid format that facilitates the different forms of digestion that involve different foods. The best option is to take them separately and without mixing incompatible foods; However, and because of the aforementioned, certain qualifications can be made that provide other healthy factors.

In general, we can say that the main thing would be to avoid mixing fruits with vegetables, although apple juice, which is neutral, and lemon can be added to vegetable juices due to its alkalizing power. You should also avoid mixing fruits with nuts and seeds, although they can be added to vegetables. As a general guideline, excessive mixing between foods may cause digestion to be slower.

There are certain sweetening or neutralizing foods of the most astringent vegetables that will soften them when pressed. Among them and as fruits, we find the apple and the lemon; and as vegetables, carrots, beets, squash and fennel. Also some spices such as ginger, cinnamon, stevia, mint ...

Within the foods that we can use to obtain the juices we will differentiate four large groups that we will subdivide according to the ingredients to elaborate them and their purpose.

Smoothies and creams

The shake or cream is the result of finely crushing the food, so that it retains all its parts, except in certain cases in which they will have to be peeled. By containing all their fiber, they are preserved for longer without oxidizing. Its digestion is slower than a juice and the energy expenditure is medium, greater than the juice, but less than the whole food that must be crushed with the teeth and stomach, although these also have to be salivated before being swallowed. Detoxification by shakes is slower than with juices.

Drinking a milkshake is much more beneficial than eating solid-state vegetables, because the cell walls of some vegetables are so incredibly resistant and hard that the digestive system cannot break them, which prevents access to their interior to extract nutrients and that decreases Its nutritional use. Hence, herbivorous animals chew a lot on the vegetables they eat.

With the shakes the fiber is used to improve the intestinal flow or to start the cleansing of the colon in those cases of morbid accumulations that have been produced by unhealthy patterns. Smoothies and creams can be combined with pressed juices depending on the intended purpose.

With what to beat food?

There are different options in the market, the best being the blender. These blenders finely crush the food and homogenize the mixtures. They keep the fiber, so they are ideal for making smoothies and cold creams. The ideal is the one that works at high revolutions, preferably with stainless steel blades-316, so we will avoid nutritive destruction and oxidation. It is also important that, if the glass and the lid are made of plastic, that it is free of toxic chemicals.

Types of shakes and guidelines

To get the most out of the shakes you have to take into account and more than with juices, the chemical compatibility between foods, since when ingesting the whole food the gastric juices and digestive substances they play a more relevant role than with juices, although less than if the whole food chewed by mouth is taken.

As with juices, we will divide them into smoothies of fruits, vegetables and oilseeds. It is also advisable to follow the rule of avoiding mixing too many components, even if these are compatible, to better process digestion. In fruit smoothies, we will avoid using acidic fruits, what if they can be used as a touch in vegetable smoothies, unless they contain an acid, such as tomato.

With those of vegetables we can get smoothies or tempered creams.

Take smoothies of fruits, fruits and seeds and your body will nourish and begin its process of elimination and repair. Take warm creams and your whole body will nourish relaxed.

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Author : Josep Mar a Montserrat Cellular Nutritionist, Editor in the Great Family of hermandadblanca.org