Juicing fruits and vegetables – is it healthy?

1. You absorb all the nutrients – Cooking, frying and boiling the ingredients, many-a-times, lead to the destruction of a majority of the vital anti-oxidants and amino acids. Juicing helps prevent this loss and fortifies your dietary intake with a well rounded ingestion of all necessary nutrients.
2. You end up eating many vegetables you never thought you would – Let’s face it, on any regular day, you wouldn’t even dream of eating a bowl of boiled and sautéed spinach or broccoli; no matter how nutritious it’ll prove to be. But now, all you got to do is throw together all of the infamous leafy veggies into the blender, add in the juice of half a lemon for zing or an apple for sweetness, and you won’t even recognize the ‘rabbit food’ anymore (as long as you ignore the slimy, gunky colour of the liquid).
3. Make sure you don’t waste the fiber – After you have extracted the juice from the blender, don’t simply throw away the pulp. You can incorporate this leftover fiber into muffins, soups and gravies. Juicing does increase your anti-oxidant intake, but you lose out on natural fibers which aid digestion.  A completely juice-based diet will do more harm than good. It is meant to supplement your nutrition, not hamper it. 
4. Eat the fruit, juice the veg – The one thing you need to keep in mind when it comes to juicing is to minimize your usage of fruit in juicing. It would seem absurd, but there is a sound reason behind it. Fruits are loaded with natural sugars like fructose linked to high blood sugar and weight gain. Hence, you have to be careful when you include fruits in your juicing recipes. Use them only to counter-act or enhance the taste of your recipe, not center the recipe on fruits. Fruit is best eaten whole where the natural fibers in them nullify, or atleast, balance the effect of fructose. Coconut water and lemon/lime juice are safe options as these are virtually void of any fat or excessive sugars.
5. Drink your juice right away – It is a very bad idea to juice large quantities at once and store it for consequent use. Under highly monitored conditions, vegetable juice can stay fresh for a maximum of 24 hours due to its unpasteurized nature. After this time span, the nutritional value declines steadily and the taste will also suffer. It is best consumed immediately.

Courtesy: Health.india.com