Tips on juicing cont’d fruit and vegetable facts, Getting the right blend, Using the pulp – Breville JE900 User Manual

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GETTING THE RIGHT BLEND

It is not difficult to create great tasting juice.

If you have been making your own vegetable

and fruit juices, then you know how simple it

is to invent new combinations. Taste, color,

texture and ingredient preferences are a

personal thing. Just think of some of your

favorite flavors and foods. Would they work

well together or would they clash? Some

strong flavors could over power the more

subtle flavors of others. It is however, a good

rule of thumb to combine starchy, pulpy

ingredients with those high in moisture.

Experiment! Any fruit or vegetable that

you enjoy can go into your next drink. You

may choose to use one fruit to give a

predominant flavor and accent it with a hint

of another flavor. The choices are limited

only by your imagination.

USING THE PULP

The remaining pulp left after juicing fruit

or vegetables is mostly fiber and cellulose

which, like the juice, contains vital nutrients

necessary for the daily diet and can be

used in many ways. However, like the juice,

pulp should be used that day to avoid loss

of vitamins.

There are a number of recipes contained

in this book for the use of pulp (refer to

pages 32 to 35). Apart from these, some of

the other uses of pulp are to bulk out

rissoles, thicken casseroles or soups or in

the case of fruit, simply placed in a bowl

topped with meringue and baked for a simple

dessert.

Quite apart from the consumption use,

pulp is great used in the garden for compost.

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TIPS ON JUICING cont’d

FRUIT AND VEGETABLE FACTS

Fruit and

Best Season

Storage

Nutritional Value

Kilojoule (Calories)

Vegetables

To Buy

Calorie Count

Apples

Autumn/

Vented plastic bags

High in Dietary Fiber

200g (7oz) Apple

Winter

in refrigerator

and Vitamin C

= 300kj (72 cals)

Apricots

Summer

Unwrapped in

High in Dietary Fiber

30g (1 ounce) Apricot

crisper of refrigerator

Contains Potassium

= 85kj (20 cals)

Beet

Winter

Cut off tops, then

Good source Folate

160g (5oz) Beet

refrigerate unwrapped and Dietary Fiber

= 190kj (45 cals)

Vitamin C and
Potassium

Blueberries

Summer

Cover in the

Vitamin C

125g (4oz) Blueberries

refrigerator

= 295kj (70 cals)

Broccoli

Autumn/

Plastic bag in

Vitamins C, Folate,

100g (3oz) Broccoli

Winter

refrigerator

B2, B5, E, B6

= 195kj (23 cals)

and Dietary Fiber

Brussels

Autumn/

Unwrapped in crisper

Vitamins C, B2, B6,

100g (3oz) Brussels

Sprouts

Winter

of refrigerator

E, Folate and

Sprouts

Dietary Fiber

= 110kj (26 cals)

Cabbage

Winter

Wrap, trimmed in

Vitamins C, Folate,

100g (3oz) Cabbage

the refrigerator

Potassium

= 110kj (26 cals)

B6 and Dietary Fiber

Carrots

Winter

Uncovered in

Vitamins A, C, B6

120g (4oz) Carrots

refrigerator

and Dietary Fiber

= 125kj (30 cals)

Cauliflower

Autumn/

Remove outer leaves,

Vitamins C, B5, B6

100g (3oz) Cauliflower

Winter

store in plastic bag

Folate Vitamin K

= 55kj (13 cals)

in refrigerator

and Potassium

Celery

Autumn/

Refrigerate in

Vitamin C and

80g (3oz) stick

Winter

plastic bag

Potassium

= 55kj (7 cals)

Cucumber

Summer

Crisper in

Vitamin C

280g (10oz) Cucumber

refrigerator

= 120kj (29 cals)

Fennel

Winter/

Crisper in

Vitamin C and

300g (10oz) Fennell

Spring

refrigerator

Dietary Fiber

= 145kj (35 cals)

Grapes

Summer

Plastic bag in

Vitamins C, B6 and

125g (4oz) Grapes

refrigerator

Potassium

= 355kj (85 cals)

Kiwi Fruit

Winter/

Crisper in

Vitamin C and

100g (3oz) Kiwi Fruit

Spring

refrigerator

Potassium

=100kj (40 cals)

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