JUICES

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Juices are the result of squeezing, blending or grinding with some fruit juice content. Manual and electric juicers help you get the citrus juice such as lemon, orange, grapefruit and lime, while the blenders can be drawn from other fruits and vegetables, despite being juicy, you can not squeeze. The possibilities are vast: the juices can be produced from one or more fruits, a combination of fruit and vegetables or just vegetables.

Fecha de publicación: 23 de agosto de 2010Not only fruit


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To prepare fruit juice, is advisable to remove from the refrigerator before-the fruit should always be stored in a cool-without which its temperature comes down heavily. This will provide a refreshing drink without adding ice for consumption.

Although it is preferable to chop the fruit at the same time to prepare the juice, you can also chop up the pieces before and keep refrigerated in a bowl or in a lunchbox. Never store too much because it's easy to pass.

The most common juices are composed of a mixture of several fruits, such as those made from fruit salad, a dessert that combines pieces of various pieces, seasoned with orange juice, sugar and / or a few drops of liquor, which is also used to assorted fruit smoothies.

Celery, bell pepper, parsley, lettuce or fruit juices are a bitter taste, so it should be added in for good measure
In general, are served in cups or tall glasses of soft drink, straw and decorated with small pieces of fresh fruit or with a skewer made up lots of fruit juice that is produced. Thus, improved nutritional intake, and deprive the juices of the fiber that whole fruit contains a substance with important physiological functions.

However, it should moderate their consumption, and that while the juices are a healthy alternative to soft drink consumption in general more calories and less nutritious, they should never be the sole option of eating this food group.

Stripping techniques
How to peel the fruit depends on it. There are several ways to do it. Training is needed for the process is clean and fast. If you also want to implement in front of guests, requires some technique:

A pear is peeled from the corner down, with cuts of the skin in strips. To do so in view of the customer or guest, pricked with a fork and cut the narrow part of the corner. Then down to the fork and separate the skin into strips, cut into quarters (four parts) elongated heart is removed along with seeds and chop into smaller pieces. The apple is prepared similarly.

The fresh pineapple cut into slices after removing the skin, rather than stripping the whole piece. The piece is not used for juice can be stored in a cool, since this fruit is easily oxidized and loses its properties.

MIXED FRUIT


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The mixture of fruit juices is varied: from basic orange juice apple, carrot and orange, widely used as an antioxidant and which is prepared with blender. In the latter case, we use fruits with a vegetable, that having a sweet taste can be added in the same proportion as the fruit.

One should take care to prepare the recipes which add other vegetables or vegetables , like celery, bell pepper, parsley or lettuce, as they provide a bitter taste and must know how to mix in for good measure not to throw lose the juice. It is recommended that all juices with a touch of lemon juice, as it prevents rust preparation and acquire a characteristic brown color.

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