Breville 800JEXL Juice Fountain Elite 1000-Watt Juice Extractor Review
What You Should Know About The Breville Juicer, 800JEXL Juice Fountain Elite 1000-Watt Juice Extractor
The stylishly elegant Breville Juicer will give you up to 30% more juice than other juicers. It has more than 40,000 filtering ‘pores’ that deliver smooth and refreshing juice. It has been designed to make clean up easy which not only makes life easier but is also important from a health point of view. This is because tiny morsels of wet fruit or veg can cause a growth of mould which you don’t want on your machine. The removable parts are dishwasher safe but they are just as quick and easy to wash by hand.
So let’s look at the Breville Juicer in more detail.
- It has an amazing 1000 watt motor. That’s 1 and a third horsepower! It also has a built-in ability to regulate the power of the blades depending on what you’re juicing. This is achieved by an electronic ‘smart chip’.
- There are 115 individual diagonal knives, safely encase in a stainless steel cutting disc which is encased with titanium. This means the Breville juicer can grind any fruit or vegetables into the smallest particles imaginable.
- The Breville 800jexl has a circular feed tube which is an amazing three inches in diameter. This may not sound large but many juices have a feed tube half that size. The increased opening allows you to juice with the minimum of chopping, slicing or cutting.
- The feed tube is positioned right over the cutter which gives the Breville Juicer
has the ability to deal with large amounts of fruit or vegetables.
Blitz…or delicate
It really doesn’t matter if you want to juice crispy apples or hard carrots, the Breville juicer does it with ease. It can process these at 13,000 revs per minute. To put that into context, it’s three times faster than most other juicers. At enormous speeds like this, the particles of pulp are forced against the micro-mesh filter (made of stainless steel) with maximum pressure to allow as much juice to be extracted as possible. To give you some idea of the amazing speeds achieved, it would take less than five seconds to extract an 8 oz glass of apples juice from whole apples. Fantastic if you’re in a rush in the morning!
The Breville juicer also has a softer side. If you’re preparing soft fruits like melons or oranges or extracting the juice from leafy veg, the juicer will drop back to 6,500 rpms…gentle and very quiet.
What do I get with the Breville 800JEXL Juice Fountain Elite Juice Extractor?
Your Breville juicer comes with:
- A 34 fluid ounce / 1 litre juicing pitcher
- A 100 fluid ounce pulp container
- A user manual (which includes recipes)
What does it cost?
The Breville juicer retails at $399.99, however, the best place to buy the juicer is through Amazon
What’s the feedback?
There is a huge amount of positive feedback for the Breville juicer. Many people say it’s that it is the very best juicer that they have ever owned, citing price as the only drawback but going on to say that it is money well spent, for the quality and the performance making it well worth the price.
So, if you are already a juicing devotee and looking for a new model or you are just starting out and would like to get into juicing for health, then the Breville juicer should be high on your list of models to consider.
Now that we have had a look at the amazing Breville Juicer, 800JEXL Juice Fountain Elite 1000-Watt Juice Extractor
The health benefits of juicing.
The fibre debate…
Fibre is good for the digestive tract because it helps food to move through the body and it can also help to remove toxins. Some people say that juicing removes this benefit. However, fibre can bind to the helpful nutrients in fruit and vegetables which can cause them to be eliminated from the body, along with the fibre. If you invest in a good quality juicing machine, it can release the nutrients from the fibre. This enables the body to use them rather than lose them.
Juice is easily digested
Juices don’t require many digestive enzymes for the body to process the nutrients so if you have a delicate digestive system or you are recovering from surgery or illness, they are an ideal way to supply your body with health-promoting nutrition.
Fresh juice is beneficial because the body can process it easily without using a lot of your body’s own energy. Because of this, you get a great energy boost from drinking it.
To buy or to juice?
Store bought juice is so easily available – isn’t it just easier, less expensive and more convenient to buy it? The answer is yes to all three, but what you gain in cost and ease, you lose in health benefits. Store bought juice is treated with heat to kill germs and to make it safe for long term storage. Sadly, this also lowers its’ nutritional value because the heat treatment kills off the enzymes which are needed to help with digestion. It also changes the taste of the juice.
Freshly squeezed fruit and vegetable juices are nourishing and healing; plus they are full of natural flavor which makes them more tasty to drink.
Antioxidants are good for you
The heat treatment of commercially bought juice also kills off antioxidants. These are needed for the health and repair of your body. They also help to protect your body from the damage that may be caused by free radicals. Free radicals can contribute to heart disease, cancer, arthritis and the visible ageing of skin, hair and nails.
What is good for juicing?
Most fruits and vegetables can be successfully juiced. You do need to be aware that fruit contains fructose (fruit sugar) so while this makes freshly squeezed juice sweet and delicious, it can increase your blood sugar levels if you drink it regularly. This can be a benefit, if you need a pick-me-up but it doesn’t hurt to dilute the juice with plain or sparkling water to avoid too much sugar going into your system at one go.
Fruits that don’t contain a lot of natural juice, such as bananas, avocadoes and dates don’t juice well but are fantastic blended into smoothies.
Do I peel or not?
The general rule is that if peel is already edible, then it can be juiced. If you wouldn’t normally eat the peel (i.e. oranges, lemons, pineapples) then remove it prior to juicing. For maximum health benefits and the best taste, buy organic fruit or veg and wash it rather than peeling. Many of the nutrients are just below the skin so peeling removes these and we want maximum nutrition so leave it on wherever possible.
How should I store juice?
Wherever possible, it’s best to drink juice as soon as you have prepared it. This is because storage can cause some of the nutrients and enzymes to be lost. If you can’t avoid making them ahead, add some lemon juice which will help to prevent oxidation and then store the juice in the refrigerator.
So there you have it, enjoy the benefits of freshly made juice using your Breville Juicer and feel the benefits.
