As the “juice” category expands to include a whole range of healthy (and unhealthy) products, it’s getting harder and harder to know what you’re actually getting when you’re looking to sip your fruit and veggies.
Especially when many of the terms companies slap on their labels are still highly unregulated. Fresh, fresh-pressed, fresh-squeezed, raw, non-HPP—it’s headache inducing.
Chief among them is the term “cold-pressed,” which first and foremost refers to how the juice was extracted from the fruit and veggies. We explain it further, along with few other key terms and helpful factoids that green-juice-lovers might want to know:
1. Within the new era of high-end juice companies, there are two basic ways to juice—centrifugal and cold-pressed
Centrifugal juicers use a fast-spinning blade to extract juice from produce, while cold-pressers use a slow pulverizer and a hydraulic press.
Most bottled juice brands that have become popular in the past few years, like BluePrint and Juice Press to Suja and Pressed Juicery, are cold-pressing their juices.
If you get a green juice made-to-order in front of you at a juice bar, it’s most likely made using a centrifugal machine. If you grab a bottled green juice from the refrigerator at one of these companies, it was probablycold-pressedoff-site.
(That does不是意味着您的瓶装超市Tropicana是冷压的。冷压是一种主要用于新的健康高端果汁杆的专业过程。与瑞士手表比水果捣碎橙子进入纸箱，它更有共同之处。）
2.两种机器工作的方式非常重要
为什么？专家说，营养品质和新鲜度。
There are factors that could influence how many of the vitamins, minerals, and enzymes from the spinach and kale you’re sipping are actually making it into your mouth.
在离心榨汁中，超快速刀片产生一些热量，这可以破坏酶。该方法还迫使空气进入，在果汁甚至完成之前开始氧化过程，这可以进一步损害营养素。
The cold-pressing process does not generate heat, and may also be better at extracting all of the enzymes from the produce’s fiber, since it’s slow and deliberate. (There isn’t much research yet on these issues, though.)
总的来说，你很可能会从冷压果汁中获得更完整的营养素。如果您不打算当场饮用它，那么您应该选择超密封，冷压和瓶装品种。
That said,果汁生成founder Eric Helms, like many juice moguls, says lots of his customers prefer made-to-order centrifugal juices for their fresh taste and feel. “They can choose their own ingredients, and we can customize it to their taste,” he says, “and many people like seeing it being made.” (Guilty!)
3. There are other considerations, like time, money, and how long your juice will keep
离心榨汁的另一个好处是缓解。“It’s less expensive, quick, convenient, and easier to clean up, too,” Helms says, which explains why made-to-order juice bars choose it (you’d miss your meeting if they were cold-pressing on site), and may also be a consideration if you’re thinking of making juice at home.
If you do choose cold-pressed, the trickiest aspect comes witha new(ish) process called HPP.仅有的一些companies are using to make it possible for them to preserve bottled juices for up to three weeks. Check back soon for a full update on that issue—once your body has fully absorbed this one.-lisa elaine很好+好
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