JohnDKestell wrote:

HI,
I was wondering if anyone had some good recipes for preparing a juice similar
to "V8" juice? It seems that I will be having more tomatoes than Ican even
begin to think about giving away (pity pity!) Anyway, the juice would be
awesome for making some good chile, or even for some bloody marys through the
winter.

any ideas would be appreciated. haven't had a lot of luck on the web .

thanks,
john

I've been juicing for a while, spent a fair bit of money trying
different things. Pros and cons:

preserved/bottled juice (V8) - cooking or canning (bottling) destroys
the foods natural enzymes. Enzymes are fragle, distroyed at temperatures
ranging from 105 to 140. All cooked food is devoid of enzymes. Enzymes
are required for digestion, so what required enzymes that are not in the
food your liver must make at the cost of nutrition. (The FDA don't want
you thinking about enzymes because they can't be mass marketed) While
meat, milk, cheeze, etc. can take 2 hours to digest, fresh foods with
their enzymes still intact can take minutes or even seconds to digest,
much easier for the body to assumlate.


typical high speed juicer (like wal-mart sells) - wastes the pulp which
can be soggy (wasted juice). The high speed cutter damages the structure
of the food. Most experts agree that within an hour after processing in
a high speed juicer the food has lost HALF its nutrition!!


Vita-Mix (ultra high speed blender) - Has the advantage that nothing is
wasted. Turns even frozen fruit and fiberous foods into a =very smooth=
drink. However the highspeed cutters damage the nutrition of food just
like ordinary juicers, giving the food a very short nutritional life.
But this is the closest thing i've found to homemade V8.


slow speed juicers (wheat grass juicers) - squeezes juice out of fresh
fruits and greens by grinding and pressing the food past a screen at
slow speeds, ejects very dry pulp (which is wasted). Manufactures of
slow speed juicers claim the juice retains nutrition much longer, two
days compared to one hour with the high speed appliances.


I own a Vita-Mix prep ($400 professional vita-mix blender), a GreenStar
juicer (duel gear slow speed juicer, does wheat grass), a BacktoBasics
wheat grass juicer (manually cranked juicer), various cheap blenders and
juicers, and a Samson "6-in-1" slow speed juicer (does wheatgrass). That
Samson is the best, and much easier to clean than the expensive
GreenStar /

http://www.discountjuicers.com/samson.html