Most people who make juicing a part of their lives have three levels of preference for the ingredients they use. At the top of the heap is organically grown produce, the kind that you’d pick in your own backyard, find at roadside fruit and veggie stands, or get at a local farmer’s market. Next, are fruits and vegetables that you can get at any supermarket aisle - definitely not as good as organic ingredients, but it’ll do for most city dwellers who don’t have easy access to the real stuff. And at the bottom are either canned/bottled fruits that you try to turn into juice - or even pre-bottled juice that you buy at the supermarket.
That organically grown stuff is just better because it often (although not always) is left unsprayed and is not artificially ripened with chemicals. For produce in the supermarket, they often have to pick it when it’s still unripe so that it will survive the long trip to your store. The apples and carrots that you get at the supermarket may LOOK better and less flawed than the rustic items you see at the farmer’s market, but they look that way because they’ve been picked while the fruit or vegetable is still hard to ease transport.
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