Juicing Vegetables

An Overview of Raw Food Preparation Methods

Juicing vegetables, blending fruit, sprouting seeds, germinating nuts, dehydrating and fermentation are all ways to prepare raw food. What are they and when and why will you use them?

Go and prepare your first raw food dish!

Below you'll see an overview of the different preparation methods to get you going.

Technique	Raw Dish	Tool	Advantages	Considerations
Juicing	Vegetable Juice Fruit Juice Wheatgrass Juice Nut Milk	Centrifuge Juicer Green Star Juicer Champion Juicer	Quick Easy Fun	Expensive (good juicers) Cleaning time
Blending	Smoothies Soups Sauces Spreads Ice-cream	Vitamix Blender Blendtec Blender Hand Blender	Quick Easy Fun	Expensive (high speed blender)
Dehydrating	Crackers Cookies Bars	Dehydrator Sun Oven	Quick Easy Fun	Expensive Takes up space (Dehydrator)
Sprouting	Sprouts grass	Sprouter Sprouting Jars Sprouting Bags	Inexpensive	Requires skill & time
Germinating	Nuts Seeds Grains	Bowl	Inexpensive Quick Easy	Need to plan in advance
Cutting	Salads precutting blender	Knifes Food Processor Mandoline Spiralizer	Inexpensive Quick Easy	Not for high volumes
Chopping	Nuts Veggies Fruits	Chopper Cleaver	Inexpensive Quick Easy	Not for high volumes
Rehydrating	Juices Fruits Spreads Cakes	Spreads Mouses Smoothies	Quick Easy	Lost some enzymes

Next Steps
for Starting a Raw Food Diet

Now you've seen an overview of the various ways to prepare your raw food.

Next, you can learn more about the individual methods such as how to juice or how to make smoothies.

Then you you may go to the page that reviews the kitchen tools.

Or you can go straight to the recipe site and search for delicious Raw Food Recipes.

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