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Oscar Vital Max 900 Owners Manual

These types of juicers are relatively new to the market, particularly at an affordable price. A true ‘living juicer’ not only has a slow turning screw or gear mechanism, but is capable, through intelligence of design, to effectively open the cell wall of the produce and release the nutrients. Some single gear juicers produce significant pulp which means the goodness is thrown into the bin or the compost.

No matter what your age, it is never too late to start drinking your fruits and vegetables. Juices can flush toxins from your body, are good for your weight, heart, circulation and overall well being. Juices contain no saturated fats or added sodium and can be helpful in lowering your cholesterol.

In 1930 Walker designed the ‘Norwalk’ juicing machine. This is still sold today for $A5,500. Until the early 1990’s the Norwalk remained the only machine that produced a living juice. After Walker retired, Max Gerson took over his work and won a Nobel Prize for his achievements using living juice therapies for people with cancer.

‘Living juice‘ retains the integrity of minerals and enzymes. Similar to whole fruits and vegetables, the juice extracted by the gentle crushing of the cell wall (without exposure to massive amounts of air which is sucked into centrifugal juicers), is alive with all that is needed to keep the elements alive.

And of course, commercial juicers will deliver a fast juice, but the faster the juicer, the more air is sucked in and the more degraded the quality will be. You will have noticed the amount of froth on the top of the glass. The more froth, the more you can be certain that the juice in the glass has been subjected to a whirlwind and therefore oxidization has occurred.

By juicing at home you can save hundreds of dollars a year. For example, you can grow an entire tray of wheatgrass (yielding 10-12 shots) for the same price as you pay for a 30ml shot of wheatgrass juice.

“The juices extracted from fresh-raw vegetables and fruits are the means by which we can furnish all the cells and tissues of the body with the elements and nutritional enzymes they need in the manner they can be most readily digested and assimilated.” Dr. Norman Walker

There are many advantages of cold press juicers over centrifugal juice extractors, such as their ability to juice everything including all green vegetables, wheatgrass and herbs such as parsley with minimum waste. The Oscar juicer works on a gentle crushing and squeezing principle and the living juice extracted from the Oscar at a low temperature holds at least double the nutrients and living enzymes.

The Centrifugal Juicer

Centrifugal juicers work by using a flat cutting blade at the base of a rapidly spinning strainer. Heat, static electricity and large amounts of air are drawn in; nutrients are destroyed as oxidation occurs. Essential enzymes in fruit and vegetable juice die at temperatures exceeding 50 degrees Celsius. Any juice extractor using a high-speed blade or centrifuge creates friction heat and destroys vital nutrients. Juicing machines will allow you to take control of the quality of the produce, but extraction methods can still destroy vital nutrients, vitamins and living enzymes.

How the conventional / centrifugal juicer works…

The centrifugal force passes the produce through tiny holes in the strainer. The strainers are difficult to clean and they can’t juice wheatgrass or leafy green vegetables effectively and economically. The pulp builds up in the strainer and the machine needs to be periodically emptied, making continuous juicing impossible. So there’s a lot of noise, a poor quality juice, a stop & start process, a large amount of wasted produce (wet pulp – not dry) and a difficult clean up afterward. No wonder so many people buy a juicer with good intentions for their health and the health of their loved ones and then give up shortly afterward!

Pre-packed juice

Pre-packed juices have lost most of their nutritional value which is then artificially supplemented after the reconstitution process. The result is an acidic, adulterated product which was never ‘cold pressed’ in the first place. A pure ‘living juice’ has the preferred alkalizing effect on the body and the Oscar juicer creates a superior living juice. Make your own V8 juice with the Oscar juicer!

Dr Norman Walker; a pioneer in the development of living juice was a great believer in the power of the “organic water” contained therein…

“Fresh juices are a very liquid food; mostly organic water of the finest quality with the nourishing atoms and molecules in comparatively microscopic volume. It is the microscopic volume for which the cells and tissues of the body are starved.

Such vitamin and mineral elements as are collected in such juice are very beneficial. The very purpose of drinking juices is to enable the body to assimilate all of the vital elements contained in the vegetables or fruits in the quickest possible time and manner without burdening the digestive organs with the work entailed by the presence of the pulp-cellulose.

The inherent natural water in juices is after all, organic water and as such it has great value. When we speak of water, the first thought is quite naturally of that which comes from the tap or from the spring, or even rain water. Few people stop to wonder if, or even to realize that, there is vital organic water as well as inorganic water. Nature has furnished vegetation as the laboratory in which to convert the inorganic water of rain and stream into life-containing atoms of vital organic water.

The only source from which vital organic water is derived is vegetation – our vegetables and fruits and particularly the juices made from them. Such juices, however, must be raw to retain their vital organic quality and must not be cooked, processed, canned or pasteurized.

When juices have been cooked, processed, canned or pasteurized all of the enzymes are destroyed and the atoms are then converted into inorganic or dead atoms; this applies to the water as well as to the mineral and chemical atoms composing such juice.”

Rinse and drain the beans. Insert the mincing screen over the auger. Feed them into the  shute a little at a time, together with a small amount of water.  This will make soy juice.

Add a small amount of salt, sweetener such as sugar/honey/maple syrup and vanilla or other condiments to suit taste.

The Oscar Vital Max 900 is the latest model in the Oscar Family, this same model is called the Omega 8005 in the USA. Both the Oscar 8005 and Oscar 900 come with the same features and benefits. Both models are available in white and chrome and have a 20 year motor warranty and 5 year warranty on the juicing head.