- Apples – You’ll need 3 or 4 for a full glass of juice. Fresh apple juice tastes absolutely nothing like store bought apple juice. You’ll be amazed!

- Oranges – Again, 3 or 4 will do you. Peel them and get as much of the pith off as you can before juicing them.

- Celery – Try just a bit of this at first. It’s remarkably spicy. Weird, huh?

- Romaine lettuce – Quite yummy!

- Sweet potatoes – I’m not kidding with this. It tastes just like candy.

- Greens – Put a bunch of any greens in the the juicer and give it a sip. It’s probably going to be a little bitter, but it’s good too.

- Grapes – Fresh grape juice is another one that doesn’t taste anything like the stuff from the store. You can peel the grapes if you wish, and it will also help to get the seedless variety too.

Now that you’ve tried some individual juices, we can start mixing things up a little. The first juice recipe is really quite simple and you don’t even need your juicer for it. Take a glass of water, cut one lemon in half and squeeze the lemon into the glass with your hand. This makes a very tasty drink and is a great way to start your day.

Here are some more of our favorites:

Carrot-Apple
- 3 or 4 carrots
- 2 or 3 apples

These two ingredients go very well together. If it’s too sweet for you, try adding a few leaves of kale or spinach.

Grape-Watermelon
- 2 or 3 slices of watermelon
- A medium sized bunch of seedless grapes, off the stems

These two fruits also go very well together. A very unique taste.

Greens-Orange-Carrot
- Handful of greens – We like kale, collard greens, and spring greens. We’re not too fond of mustard greens.
- 1 or 2 oranges
- 2 or 3 carrots

We tried just orange and carrot juice but it was too sweet for us. Adding a few greens into it the mix made it much better and much healthier.

Celery-Carrot
- 2 stalks of celery
- 2 carrots

This is not a juice I recommend for juicing beginners, but it’s great for people who have a bit of experience and don’t need juices to be so sweet to drink. Celery juice is a bit of an acquired taste but it’s great once you get used to it. In this juice, it balances the sweetness of the carrots nicely.

Once you’ve got a few juicer recipes under your belt and have a good idea what the ingredients taste like by themselves, it’s time to start experimenting! Just pick any two or three of your favorite fruits or vegetables and throw them in together. Chances are good that you’ll enjoy it, and if not, you’ll know what to steer clear of. Have fun!

1. Wash all fruits and vegetables before juicing: This one is easy to forget since you can put most fruits and vegetables into the juicer without any prep work. But washing your produce will help prevent dangerous bacteria and chemicals from getting nto your body.

2. Remove all stems: This seems to contradict the infomercial in which they feed entire bunches of grapes into the Power Juicer without removing the grapes from the step. Perhaps that is an exception. I think that it is probably wise to remove the stems in order to prolong the life of the blades and motor.

3. Do not try to juice bananas or avocadoes. Bananas and avocadoes do not have any juice – they will just clog up the machine. If you want to make a smoothie, add the banana to the fruit juices in a blender. Other “no-nos” include coconut, eggplant, leek, rhubarb and winter squash.

4. Put a plastic grocery sack in the pulp collector. The pulp collector is much easier to clean if you can just remove the bag and throw the pulp away. I like to tie the bag up before I put it in the trash can so that animals and insects are not attracted to it.  However, if you’re planning on using the pulp in other recipes, I would skip the bag or use a zip-top bag so that you can be sure that the pulp is clean.

5. When using leafy greens, roll the leaves into a ball before juicing. Greens do not contain a ton of juice, so getting them into a compact form before they go into the Power Juicer improves the efficiency of the process.

6. Alternate soft and hard produce. For the best results, always follow a soft item, like peaches or mangos, with hard produce like a carrot. The soft produce tends to create a thick juice and it sometimes needs the harder produce (and the resulting thin juice) to help it come out of the machine.

7. Peel citrus fruits before juicing. Citrus fruit peels are very bitter. You don’t want that stuff in your juice. You do not,however, have to remove the thin, white membrane that separates the individual segments of fruit. That membrane is called the pith and it is perfectly okay to eat/drink.