If you are new to the juicing world you have probably been hearing and reading a lot about the huge health benefits of juicing and realise that to get all these terrific benefits you are going to need to get a juicer. There as so many different ones to chose from but one thing I hope you have already realised is that you will need a whole fruit juicer. If you haven't yet come across this term or don't realise the importance then let me explain.

There is nothing as refreshing as a glass of freshly squeezed juice. You start of with a pile of freshly washed fruit and veg and finish up with a glass of beautiful health giving juice (and some washing up) and you want to get from start to finish as quickly as possible with as little effort as possible.

When I started juicing back in 2006 I was lucky enough to have been given the right information and bought myself a whole fruit juicer. A whole fruit juicer is a juicer with a large chute or feeding tube, big enough to take a whole apple or orange or maybe a small raw beetroot. The size of the feeding tube may not seem hugely important but believe me it is because if the whole fruit doesn't fit into the tube then you have to cut it up and although this don't sound like a big deal, it is!

About six months after I started juicing I convinced my parents to give it a go, they both suffered from arthritis and I knew that juicing would help alleviate this for them but they didn't want to spend the extra £20 on a whole fruit juicer opting instead for the cheaper model with a smaller tube. I tried very hard to reason with them and even offered to pay the extra money but they wanted to go with the cheaper version after all my mum said that she chopped vegetables every day for dinner. I had to agree that I do too but for some reason it's different when you're juicing - not logical I know but true! After juicing for a few days the frequency started reducing, then it moved from the work top to the cupboard (a disaster!) then after a couple of months my mum asked me if I wanted to sell it on e-bay for her! However the saddest part of this is not the money wasted on an unused appliance but that they were no longer getting the benefits of juicing. If they had taken my advice and bought the whole fruit juicer I'm sure they would still be juicing away and feeling better!

So please don't try and save a few pounds on your juicer by getting a model with a small feeding tube. You are going to be using this every day so do yourself a huge favour and only look at a whole fruit juicer, that's a juicer with a large feeding tube big enough to take an apple. You and your body will be glad you did!