Juicing

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Juicing is the process of extracting juice from fruit and vegetables. Juicing machines for personal use are called juicers and range in price from a few dollars to over a thousand, and drinking juice from these things is supposed to cleanse the body of non-specific toxins. The real purpose of these frequently expensive devices, though, is to empty the buyer's wallet, as drinking juice from a juicer is no healthier than eating the whole food[1] or (by extension) drinking a smoothie made with an ordinary blender. (Those who really want or need pure liquids can just buy any inexpensive juicer or filter blender-made smoothies with a strainer.)

Advertisers make some amusing claims, such as "this juicer is more efficient than any other juicer on the market"; of course, eating the actual food or using a blender is 100% efficient. They also frequently highlight the fact that you can add sweet fruits to vegetable cocktails to make them tastier. What they don't tell you is that doing this has a side effect: Since juicers put all the solid parts into one bin, when the juice is done you're left with stringy, unpalatable, orange-broccoli-apple-spinach-grapefruit-tomato-carrot leftovers, which you'll probably throw out. So much for efficiency.

[edit] Other uses

"Juicing" is also a slang term for athletic use of performance-enhancing drugs.

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