Jack LaLanne Juicers are a great way to introduce the healthy benefits of eating fresh fruits and vegetables to your kids. Fruits like apples, red grapes, strawberries, pineapples, melons, and citrus are great for juicing and kids love the sweet taste. Now if you really want to get healthy and a little sneaky too, try incorporating vegetables into the sweet juices without announcing it to the kids. Vegetables like carrots, celery, cucumbers, tomatoes, kale (broccoli and spinach), lime, and sweet potatoes are great additives and they don’t change the sweet flavor of fruits.

Begin with flavors your children already love, add a few new ingredients that are good for them and later you can branch out into other more exotic ingredients that your children may not know but could learn to like in time or when blended well. The key to successfully introducing new flavors to children is by doing it in small steps and only one new flavor at a time. Sometimes too much can turn them away from trying new things at all. When introducing vegetables to your children whether in a juice or as part of a meal, you will quickly discover that sweet vegetables like sweet potatoes, sweet corn, and carrots go over much better than bland vegetables like peas or green beans.

When shopping for ingredients to be juiced, stick to local grown fruits and vegetables because they are much fresher than items that are transported across from other parts of the country or items that are imported from other countries. When fresh ingredients are not in season, canned or frozen work just as well but make sure you thaw out all frozen ingredients before you place them in the juicer. Drain out the liquid from canned items because most of the liquid is full of sugar in the case of canned fruits like peaches or pineapples and full of starch in the case of vegetables like beans and potatoes.

Here are a few healthy kid friendly juicing recipe ideas:

Pineapple Sweet Surprise
1 fresh pineapple or 2 cans of pineapple (drained)
1 sweet potato
4 large oranges

Sweet Kiwi Medley
4 ripe pears
4 kiwi
2 small apples

Delicious Delight
3 carrots
2 small oranges
1 hand full of grapes (red or white)
1 medium apple

Recipes like these are great places to begin because they all tackle an unpopular ingredient. Sweet potatoes, kiwi, and carrots are typical flavors that children either never tried or don’t like. These recipes take those flavors and blend or mask them with the wonderful sweetness of fruits. Your children will never know the difference. Use these recipes as a starting point and experiment with other ingredients you think your children will enjoy. Juicing success involves blending flavors you normally would not mix together and making them taste good. When some of my juices lack sweetness, I simply mix in a little store bought juice just to ensure I can win everyone over.

Jack LaLanne Power Juicers come with an easy to access pulp collector which yields wonderful amounts of pulp from the ingredients you have juiced. I use the pulp to make purees, soups, dips, and even muffins. The possibilities are endless and entirely up to you. I wish you many wonderful juicing experiences and may your power juicer change your life as much as it has changed mine and that of my family.

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As a fitness boot camp owner and Singapore personal trainer, I know that there can be a lot of confusion out there about diets and nutrition that really help people to get fit, lose fat and build muscle. The best healthy diet is one that people can stick to - so a healthy diet has got to taste good!

Here’s a simple tip for adding a wide, wide world of new flavors, textures and aromas to your healthy diet: eat fermented foods!

Kimchi, sauerkraut, natto,black garlic, brewed soy sauce, fermented garlic, kefir, pickled Japanese plums - umeboshi - all the stinky foods are good for you!

Fermented foods are made by allow micro-organisms to breakdown the carbohydrates and protein in foods. Fermentation takes time and the results brim with healthy substances (fermentation is able to enrich food with protein, essential amino acids, essential fatty acids and vitamins) and fantastic active cultures, including the “pro-biotics” family of microbes.

For instance, in kimchi, sauerkraut and yoghurt, you get tons of the “live cultures” like lactobacilli and bifidobacteria.Traditional folklore AND modern research suggests a mindboggling list of health benefits from these babies, including but not limited to - decreasing the presence of “bad” bacteria in the gut, immune support, adsorption and assimilation of nutrients (so you can build muscles!), prevention of bowel irritability and inflammation and reduction of lactose intolerance.

Not just that - fermented cabbage (like in kimchi and unpasteurized sauerkraut), has phytochemicals that can change estrogen metabolism in a way that could reduce cancer risk, phytochemicals with anti-inflammatory effects, are stuffed with super-power antioxidants and contain a high proportion of vitamins and minerals at a low amount of calories.

Fermentation is one of the few ways of processing food that actually adds nutritive value to food. So what should we do?

Jazz up your lean, healthy diet by adding some lip-puckering, tangy, natural fermented foods a couple of times a week. It will for wonders upping the “fun” factor of your meals!

HOWEVER - you’ve got the get the “real” fermented stuff (and the yoghurt you eat should be natural, no sugar added!). NOT the fake factory-made stuff that’s been salted, soaked with chemicals then packaged and shipped to your supermarket. Make an effort to buy the authentic stuff.

Here are a few tasty suggestions:

Make kimchi omelettes or toss some into your salad - beats practically every single salad dressing! Top your boiled eggs with traditionally fermented, no-additives soy sauce and pepper Have sauerkraut on the side with your chicken - very tasty!

I’ll end by telling you a scary ole story from my own childhood:

When I was a kid, my mom did the freakiest thing ever. She would gather durian pulp (if you don’t know what a durian is, you can look it up here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Durian) , salt it down and pack it away into glass jars. When I had finally forgotten those jars even existed, she’d draw one out from the depths of the fridge. My mom would happily smear the salted, fermented, rather odorous yellow gunk over her dinner rice.

How did it taste? I don’t know - I didn’t dare to eat it! But I wish I had. Why? Well, because now I know, fermented foods are good for us!

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