Preserving Fresh Juice

Adding lemon:
Adding a few drops of lemon juice per ounce to your juice will help preserve the life span of your juice.
Storing in a refrigerator:
Fruit and vegetable juices can be preserved in the refrigerator. However, keep in mind the type of juicer you have. Most juice starts the oxidation process within 24 hours of being juiced.
Juices from a Centrifugal juicer will not keep as long as a Single or Twin Gear juicer. Here is a timeline:

• Centrifugal Juicers: Juice will keep for approximately 2-6 hrs. or 24 hrs. with lemon
• Single-gear Juicers: approximately 24 hrs. or 1-2 days with lemon
• Twin-gear Juicers: approximately 48 hrs. or 2-3 days with lemon

Storing in the freezer:
Fruit juices freeze better than vegetable juices. When you are done juicing your fruits you can add a few drops of lemon juice per ounce. Then place the juice in a sealable container, this will eliminate freezer burn. Frozen fruit juices will keep for several weeks. However, if you keep them any longer they will begin to go bad even while frozen.

Freezing vegetable juices is different from Fruit juices. The liquid separates during the freezing process, but this can be used in cooking. A lot of people try blanching the vegetable juice before freezing. (this is done to stop the enzyme activity). However there are many studies that do not recommend blanching because it does significantly diminish vitamins that are stored in the food.

What juicer will be best for you?

Harvest Essentials has a wide variety of juicers. At www.HarvestEssentials.com/juicers there are different kinds, such as: Centrifugal, Single-gear, Twin-gear, etc. All of which range from $99.00 - $900.00 (for home use).

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  The first step: Why are you juicing? Determine the reason to why you are deciding to juice! Are you juicing for your health, for cooking purposes? Do you have crops that you would like to juice and store? Why are you juicing?
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  The second step: What do you want to juice? Determine the foods that you plan on juicing. Are you going to be juicing strictly fruits or do you want to juice veggies as well? What about leafy greens (wheatgrass, lettuce, parsley, etc.)? Don't forget, some juicers have pasta extruding accessories....
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  The third step: How often do you plan on juicing? Determine how often you will use the machine. Are you going to juice once a week, twice, maybe three times? Do you plan on juicing everyday, maybe even a couple times a day?
  

Now that you have figured out why, what and how often you are juicing, what kind of juicer do you buy?

Centrifugal Juicers: I recommend these if you are only going to be juicing soft fruits. Centrifugal juicers are less expensive and handy if you are in a hurry. Other than that, You are not getting the quality juice that you should from a juicer.

Centrifugal juicers will not juice wheatgrass or any other leafy greens. Imagine putting your food on a cutting board and cutting out juice. That is how a centrifugal juicer will work.

Single Gear Juicers: You can never go wrong with a single gear juicer. These machines will do just about anything. From fruits, veggies, leafy greens and even nut butters or sorbets. Single gear juicers we would recommend to anyone.

Twin Gear Juicers: Twin gear juicers will do everything a Single Gear juicer will do, except for better. Twin gears will juice better and more efficiently than any other juicer.

Please reference our Juicer Comparison Chart at: http://www.harvestessentials.com/juco.html

Also our juicer buying guide at: http://www.harvestessentials.com/whatjuicisri.html