Do I really get more nutrients and less damage to enzymes when I use a vita mix? or is a regular blender or magic bullet going to do pretty much the same thing? I’m trying to incorporate more raw foods into my diet and find the magic bullet handy.
Thanks
it depends on your purpose, Madeline. I have owned a vitamix for 15 years and love it. It is great for making tinctures and can handle the hardest herbs like ginseng or blend hard horseradish roots, cook soups, grind meat and make ice cream.
Buy for juicing it uses the whole fruit/veggie and when juicing one does not want to take the pulp or any food for at least 15-20 as the father of juicing who invented the top of the line norwalk juicer in his book on juicing said that when one takes juices without the pulp (or food in general) the atoms, molecules, enzymes and nutrients are assimilated in 15-20 minutes and go directly to healing and repair but when taken with pulp like the vitamix does, then the body must digest the fiber and the it takes hours and most of the food value goes towards digestion leaving little left for repair, so for that purpose one wants a juicer.
Interestingly, he also said that even if the produce is heavily sprayed with pesticides, herbicides etc, this concentrates in the fiber, when the juicer triturates (pulverizes) the fiber, it releases the vital elements named above (atoms, phytochemicals, etc) and that these elements are repellent of the sprays as oil is to water and thus do not contain then so if one consumes the juice without the fiber from a juicer, it is the same effectively as organic. Thus, one can save their organic dollars for when eating the whole fruit/veggies allowing for the money going further.
I do feel raw foods is the magic bullet from my recent viewing of many videos/sites on it in trying to fix my one health problem (also be sure to do regular detoxing of the elimination organs (lungs/skin/liver-gall bladder, kidney-bladder, and especially the bowel or colon)
I also feel shunning all animal is the answer and going to a vegan whole food diet which I have recently done. The more raw the better but at least 75% is best for healing with even greater healing corresponding to 95-100% of the food raw.
Another magic bullet I learned from a Victoria Boutenko video who has been vegan 100% raw with her family and reverse serious ills and then started aging and getting sick after a long while on the diet was to start drinking green smoothies.
She said we need the equivalent of two LARGE bunches of kale or comparable green per day but if we incorporate a quart of green smoothies, it will greatly benefit us. After just a very short time on it they reversed their 2nd decline and her husband’s beard went from gray to black.
It is EXTREMELY important to rotate the greens and not stay on any one too long as they all have something in them that is toxic if consumed exclusively or for long like oxalic acid in spinach in order to keep the tree from having all its leaves eaten and yet have some eaten to propagate via animals consuming plant parts. But if one rotates, then no harm and great benefit occurs.
Some of these greens include kale, collard greens,.turnip greens, carrot tops, beet tops, parsley, cilantro, watercress, romaine, Asian greens, wild greens like plantain, lamb’s quarter and burdock etc and any others you might find that are eatable.
Blend these with fruit as without it she said it is unpalatable such as banana etc.
for this, one could be served with a vitamix which would do well chopping the stems or one could use a blender.
Victoria B. said that greens like kale contain every nutrient we need (if taken in the amount we need to simulate the diet of the chimps which she studied who share 99.3% of the exact same gene sequence of man) She feels the average raw foodist eats too much nuts/seeds/avocados and oil and besides the greens, fruits and non sweet "fruits" like tomatoes, cukes and peppers (above ground veggies) should make up most of our diet.
Other raw foods besides produce and raw plant milks and dehydrated foods would be raw nuts/seeds, sprouted beans and whole grains, raw soaked oats and quinoa, raw muscli cereals, cold pressed oils, fermented foods like kimche and raw sauerkraut, seaweeds and if one soaks produce in braggs amino acids like onions for instance and marinates them, they take on the taste of cooked foods without being cooked. If not, vegan some eat raw fish, meat and dairy products.
‘I could not live without my vitamix and did recently spend $100 for a part that was a sacrifice buying when the vitamix broke as I used it a lot. I don’t use a blender at all.
Other handy tools are dehydrator for making tasty raw crackers, chips and dried produce (check for temperature not to exceed to keep it raw..I think it was 115 degree r so), use the vitamix for making raw milk from almonds or oats as it will not contain residue like a blender would, a good processor for grating, chopping, slicing and making things like hummus, and a spiral slicer for cutting zucchini, squash and other veggies into the long spaghetti looking strands. I also use an immersion blender and a v type slicer as sold at the fair
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