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Originally Posted by ChefSalad  I do have one question for experienced fasters ours there. How should one obtain the juice used in a juice fast. Should you juice your own fruit? Or is buying supermarket juice OK? And what about vegetable juices. |
I would suggest to look for a place around your neighborhood where they sell freshly extracted fruit and vegetable juices. That in my opinion is the best choice to start. Concerning the price, a glass of freshly pressed juice would cost you the same amount of money as 1 litre of canned juice. But these are too different things. Freshly pressed juice is 'alive' and canned juice is more or less 'dead' is some sense. There are lots of books written on this subject, but to make thinks simple, I would strongly suggest to drink only freshly pressed juices. Citrus, vegetable, fruit, whatever.. but MOST important FRESHLY pressed. Even if you keep it in a bottle for a day (or even longer), it is still much better than canned juice. Canned is bad, because it sugar added, and it's usually made from 'juice contentrate' (if you read labels on canned juice packs, you'll see what I'm talking here about).
There is another question you wouldn'y mention. That's the amount of juice to drink durink fast. There are lots of books written on the subject. I would say the optimum is to have a 200-300g glass of juice 3, 4, or 5 times per day.
Edit: DO NOT try to save money on drinking canned (pasterized) juice. Buy fressly pressed, or juice it yourself. If the price of buying freshly pressed juice seems big, remember that you would have spent the same amount on your regular food
