Hi all--

I just purchased an Omega 1000 juicer and tried making a green drink a couple of times. I find that after putting a ton of greens through it, or what I think is a "ton" of greens--I end up with a 1/2 cup of juice. Is this right? Am I supposed to add some other kind of liquid? What does everyone else use?

Thank You.

Linda

well im not familiar with the Omega1000 , Yogi probably has more insight on that model(s)

but i have found that i dont get alot of juice from greens in a centrifugal type juicer ... i think its because unlike say chunnks of celery or carrots or denser items like this .. most greens tend to be on the flat side .. so once the spinning starts they get thrown quite quickly ... how wet is your pulp?

even tho it seems like tons of greens .. if you say took 1 lettuce leaf and pulverised it in a mortar in pestle you would see how little volume it would make

for example ... if you try to see light through a lettuce leaf and tried to see light thru a hunk of turnip you would see the turnip has more density and you cant see light through it .. greens have more flat thin surface to absorb light so you can see through the lettuce leaf so there is really not too much too them despite how big they can be !

...Jodi, the banana eating buddhist




Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 02/08/2009 08:23PM by Jgunn.

An entire pound of kale (454 g, or nearly 7 cups chopped) could produce at most only 1.9 cups (454 g) of juice. But that's only if 100% of the kale ended up as juice and produced zero pulp.

In practice juicers are not 100% efficient, especially with greens, and they do leave some pulp behind.

But some of the auger type juicers which are very expensive can produce more juice and less pulp.

If you don't have a $400 juicer it's probably better to drink green smoothies; you can use a cheap blender to make them by adding some water and use all of the greens that way instead of just part of them.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 02/09/2009 06:05AM by arugula.