What is a Masticating Juicer
The word masticate as defined in a dictionary means to chew. We normally associate masticating with chewing something between our teeth in order to break it down, and masticating juicers work on this same principle. Inside the machine are two hard surfaces which break down the fruit or vegetables placed into it to help extract the juice from them. The more conventional type of juicer used by people and widely available is the centrifugal type. These types of juicers don’t use grinding or chewing actions but instead use a shredding disc that turns at high speed into order to process the fruit and vegetables. As the disc spins the centrifugal force within the machine is what separates the extracted juice from the pulp and then releases it into a container. Certainly using the word release is a good way of describing how juice is extracted when a centrifugal juicer is used. To release the liquid content of the plant cells the juice will be spun out of the pulp. One of the main features of
