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Best Juicer for Ginger

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Who doesn’t like ginger? It tastes great and it’s healthy for you. Not only that, but ginger contains healthy benefits that you can’t get from many vitamins or other nutritional supplements.  Because of it’s great taste and health benefits, many people want to add ginger to their juices. So, I thought I’d write an article that covers the basics about ginger how to best juice it.

This will include reviews of the best juicers for ginger, as well as some information about how to go about using juiced ginger.

Can You Put Ginger Through A Juicer?

Yes, you can put ginger though a juicer, but only if you use the right juicer. It’s a bit of a complicated question. Ginger is not like other things you would want to juice such as cucumbers or apples. These are relatively easy to juice. While I always recommend that you use an auger juicer with a masticating design, you can get away with using a non masticating juicer. However, with ginger, you are dealing with something that is similar to leafy greens.

Ginger is fibrous and if you were to simply put it through a classic spin style juicer, you wouldn’t get much of the ginger juice out. So, if you’re planning on having a ginger shot and want all of the juice possible, you will want to make sure you are using a auger style juicer (I have some recommendations for what I think are the best juicer for ginger at the end of the article).

How Do You Juice Fresh Ginger

The first step you have to take is to select the best ginger. You should only buy organic ginger from the United States. Avoid anything that comes from China. Unfortunately, there is very little oversight in China and Garlic and Ginger that comes from China is very likely to have been farmed using toxins and pesticides.

The next step is to buy fresh ginger. If you get stale ginger (ginger that is too dried out) it won’t be any good to juice. Likewise, you don’t want to get rotten ginger that has sat in a moist environment and rotted.

So, pick out fresh ginger to juice (like the ginger shown in the photo above).

When you get it home, wash it in soap and water. After letting the ginger dry, you can then proceed to peeling the ginger. The easiest way to peel the ginger is with a spoon. Use the back of the spoon to peel the ginger and then discard the brown skin. While you can juice the ginger skin, I’d advise against it.

Then, depending upon how large the piece of ginger you have is, I would suggest that you slice it up into smaller pieces to feed through the juicers chute.

What Is The Best Juicer For Ginger Shots

My picks for the best juicer for ginger is going to include auger, masticating style juicers. My personal favorite is the Omega, but I also suggest you consider the Hurom juicer. There are some cheap auger style juicers online, but honestly it’s not worth saving yourself a few bucks to buy a sub-par machine. I would recommend you stick with a tried and true and trusted brand like Omega.

What Else Should You Juice With Ginger?

You will want to mix things in with ginger when you are juicing it. After all, even if you are making a homemade ginger shot you will want something to flavor or temper the strong ginger taste.

Lemons

At it’s most basic, you can use pure lemon juice with the ginger shot. I advocate that everyone always chooses organic produce, but it’s especially important when you juice the skin. And when you are juicing a lemon, you are going to want to juice the skin. The lemon skin has all of the essential oils which are healthy and give the lemon that rich flavor that people associate with citrus.

Apples and Carrots

Another great pairing for ginger is apples and carrots. The ginger provides a nice spicy kick to the sweetness of the apples and carrots. It’s one of the reasons you see so many combs of ginger and carrot juice.

Leafy Greens

If you’re looking for a super healthy antioxidant rich juice, then mix in some leafy greens with your ginger. You can either make a ginger shot with a bit of kale or spinach, or you can make a green juice with some ginger. It’s up to you depending upon how much ginger you want.

 

Wheatgrass

Wheatgrass has a notoriously nasty taste. This is the reason that so many people dislike drinking it…even though it’s super healthy. Wheatgrass has a much deserved reputation as a super pungent and strong drink. So, in order to temper that strong taste what you can do is add ginger to it. The ginger juice has a very strong flavor and will overpower the wheatgrass.

Turmeric

Another thing that you might not normally think of juicing is turmeric. It’s a spice that you might have thought of cooking with ginger (think of all those great indian spiced dishes) but it’s also a great thing to pair with ginger. What you will want to do is prepare the turmeric in the same way as ginger (they are very similar) and then add a citrus such as lemon.

What Do You Do With Ginger Pulp After Juicing?

Whenever you make fresh juice you are left with pulp. Most of the time there isn’t much you can do with that pulp, but when you juice ginger, there are things you can do. And that’s great because it’s never good to be wasteful. For instance, you can make ginger infused soups as well  as ginger bread and ginger cookies. Here’s a list of what you can do with ginger pulp after juicing.