1. Wash your hands and then wash all your fruits and vegetables with fruit and vegetable-safe soap wash to remove any dust, dirt, waxes and/or pesticides.

2. Do NOT mix fruit juicing with green vegetable juicing. While there’s nothing wrong with adding an apple to juicing a few carrots, some spinach, celery, beets, etc. It’s when you juice sweet, acidic fruit (i.e., oranges, pineapple, etc.) together with green vegetables, they tend to produce intestinal discomfort. NOT GOOD. Alternate juicing veggies or fruits on different days.

3. Wash juicing machine parts after one drink and after every drink you make for best results.

4.  Keep frozen glasses in the freezer to use. I do!

5.  Cut away damaged or bruised areas on fruits and vegetables. Throw away old produce.

6.  All hard pits, such as plum pits and peach pits, should be removed and NEVER JUICED! They’ll damage your juicer.

7.  Don’t juice the peelings of oranges, lemons, grapefruit or tangerines.

8.  The seeds should be removed from lemons, limes, grapes and melons, but it can be okay if they slip through the juicer.

9.  Carrots do not need to be peeled. Simply wash thoroughly and cut off the top/bottom ends.

10.  Juices should not be stored. They lose nutrients quickly! Drink the juice within 10 minutes for optimal intake of nutrients, enzymes and minerals! Do not store the juice. Drink it as you make it.

11.  Swoosh the juice inside your mouth, under the tongue and all around to feel/sense your taste buds tingling as the vitamins and nutrients enter the body! Feel your brain cells light up as well!

12.  Drink your juice WHILE you clean. That works for me too. Two things at once, wow! The juicing machine can be hand washed and left out to dry. I always wash it right away.