Freshly squeezed, self-made juices are much healthier than store-bought juices: they retain all the vitamins and minerals contained in fruits. But it should be borne in mind that for the preparation of different juices you need a different amount of fruit, depending on their juiciness.
Fruit amount for juice
Oranges, and citrus fruits in general, are some of the juiciest fruits, so the least amount of them is required for juicing. Using a juicer, you can make a glass of juice from two medium-sized oranges. The juice will turn out to be concentrated, saturated, you can dilute it with water. From the same two oranges, you can get more juice if you first freeze them in the freezer, then defrost, grind in a blender until smooth and leave to strain in a colander. In this case, you get about a liter of juice.
Apples are less juicy, although they also contain a lot of liquid. To prepare one glass, you will need about half a kilogram of apples. If you need to make a liter of juice, take one and a half kilograms. It is difficult to accurately calculate the number of apples for juice, since different varieties of these fruits have different juiciness.
Pomegranate juice is considered very useful, pomegranate is a very juicy fruit that gives a rich sour juice. Therefore, it is often diluted with water, and even from one pomegranate you can get a liter of good juice. But it is important to prepare it correctly: if you squeeze it with a citrus juicer without peeling the fruit, then very little juice will turn out from half a pomegranate - less than half a glass. In addition, not only grains enter the device, but also partitions, which give the liquid a bitter taste. It is much more economical to peel the pomegranate and grind the grains in a blender or regular juicer.
Apricots cannot be called juicy; in a juicer, puree or a very small amount of juice is often obtained from them. Therefore, during cooking in mashed potatoes add water in a ratio of one to one. From a kilogram of these fruits, about one and a half liters of juice is obtained.
From one large and juicy pear in a juicer, you can make about 200 milliliters of juice, that is, you need to take five pieces per liter.
How to calculate the amount of fruit to juice?
All the recipes listed are approximate, it is difficult to accurately calculate the amount of fruit for juice, since it all depends on the method of preparation, on the power of the juicer, on the juiciness and ripeness of fruits, on their variety and many other factors. It is best to establish the exact amount of fruit you need to juice by your own experience: check how much juice is obtained from a certain amount of each type of fruit in your juicer or juicer, write down the results and use these records next time.
