Hi Alan, Exactly! You get everything but the seeds, stem, and label. I had a friend with cancer many years ago, and her community argued endlessly about various juicers, vortices, structure-altering, cell-damaging of various juicing or blending methods. I'm sure there's some solid science beneath all this, but I have a life that I've arduously recovered from my Lyme disease, and have settled on for what works for me. I feel like blending give me more of the whole food my body craves. I have noticed, however, that grape skins really hate to be liquified, and their tiny bits are unpleasantly noticeable in the blended results.
Just be aware that the blenders will give you a thick puree of everything you put in, where a juicer will extract the juice only, and if you're concerned about what's lost in the pulp, you can feed it through again and again, but will be missing some of the beneficial fiber. Be well, Léna On Jan 5, 2013, at 11:00 AM, Alan Jones wrote: > OK, so you don't like the word "extracted" in this context. The blending > process clearly destroys cell walls and separates a certain amount of the > juice from the fiber. Depending on the type of blender, the type of fruit or > vegetable, and the speed/time of blending, I imagine the percentage of > separation could vary considerably. I wonder how it compares to juicing? > > Once consumed I would imagine your body would be able to absorb a certain > amount of the liquid fairly quickly, much like pure juice is absorbed, then > at some point the fiber would slow down absorption. > > > On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 8:49 PM, Lena Guyot <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Alan, > The mechanics of blending don't 'extract' anything. It's all in there, bladed > to liquid and then swallowed. > > Be well, > Léna > > On Jan 4, 2013, at 9:12 PM, Alan Jones wrote: > >> I also like to do both. >> >> BTW for blending I'm really referring to "good" blenders like Vitamix and >> Blendtec, which I'm thinking should be able to "extract" as much juice as a >> juicer, methinks.... >> >> -Alan >> >> On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 5:29 PM, Paul <[email protected]> wrote: >> I do one of each every day :). >> >> -- >> Alan Jones >> >> "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor >> prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or >> to the people." (Tenth Amendment to the US Constitution) > > > > > -- > Alan Jones > > "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor > prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or > to the people." (Tenth Amendment to the US Constitution)
