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Blenders are not good enough, you do need a good juicer,(£50), ish, first, you need a good base,carrot and apple (crapel) as we call it, then you can add the stronger flavours, eg beetroot, brockly etc and a squirt of lemon juice really lifts it. I've been doing this for ages now, and i love the taste of all juices, fennell is delicious, my favorite! Try a few, youll be suprised! Honest

Thank you for your reply.I agree that if you make a juice you drink it immediately.The trouble with leafy green veg juices is that they have a very strong brassica flavour - I tried some using my blender . The masticating juicers are so expensive that I am really wondering Thanks

I don't have a juicer but have been reading up on them recently

Anyway, I think the resulting juices from both types (masticating and centrifugal) are basically the same but masticating juicers, as well as being slower, extract more nutrients from the cell walls as it "chews" the ingredients. Centrifugal machines introduce more oxygen into the resulting juice which means it won't keep as long but I think this is irrelevant as most people will be drinking the stuff within five minutes of making it.

If you intend to make juices using leafy green veg than a masticating juicer breaks them down better.

I still don't know which one to get. In the end it'll probably be the cheapest.

Ian