As you will soon discover there are a number of different juicers available to purchase. These various juicers allow you to extract juice from fresh fruit and vegetables rather than purchasing that ready prepared in your local grocery store. Not only is preparing your own juice more beneficial to your health but can save you money as well. The types of equipment for extracting juice today are centrifugal or masticating juicers.

Below we look at what the benefits are to be had from owning a masticating juicer rather than some of the other juicers that are available. However, you first need to understand a bit about how these particular juicers operate. Whereas the centrifugal juicer will shred the pulp at high speed using the blades contained within it a masticating juicer actually uses the blades at slow speed to chew up the pulp of the fruit or vegetables.

Today there are two types of masticating juicers you can purchase ones which have only one cutter fitted and the other type which has two cutters installed. Many people tend to purchase the basic one cutter model simply because they are the cheapest. However if you want to extract juice from fruit and vegetables such as apples and carrots or from wheatgrass then the double blade models is the better option.

So just what are the benefits from having a masticating juicer instead of a centrifugal one?

1. First off because these operate at much lower speeds as they extract the juice from the pulp of the food they create far less oxygen as well. Because of this the shelf life of the juice that you extract using one of these juicers is quite a bit longer than if you were to use the more common sort of centrifugal juicer.

2. You will find that because there are a number of different stages involved in the extraction of juice with these machines they can much more effectively break down the fiber contained within the fruit or vegetables. This actually results in a juice that contains more nutrients as it is able to more effectively squeeze the juice from the pulp.

3. As previously mentioned these machines have the capability of dealing with soft and hard fruits as well as wheatgrass. So instead of you spending money on a wheatgrass juicer which could be very expensive you can rely on a masticating juicer to do the necessary work for you instead.

4. Along with these machines being great for producing large amounts of fresh juice from fruit and vegetables they can be used in other ways. There are plenty of mothers out there who are saying how simple these machines are to use when they want to prepare healthy nutritional meals for their baby.

5. These machines not only make far less noise than other types of juicers but also they create a lot less mess. Plus another major benefit to be gained from having a masticating juicer over the other models available is that they are a lot easier to clean after they have been used.

Above we have given just a few reasons why it is worth considering buying a masticating juicer instead of a centrifugal one. A quick search online and you will see that there are plenty of different types to select from you just need to decide beforehand how much you can afford to spend on it.