What is Living Juice

The concept of living juice was first introduced by Dr. Norman Walker (1874-1983). Dr. Walker declared that the enzymes in fruit and vegetables die at temperatures which exceed 50 degrees Celsius.

He explained that any juice extractor that used high-speed blade or centrifuge created friction heat leading to the destruction of enzymes.

A living juice is nutritionally far superior and will last for up to 72 hours (48 hours with our single gear juicers) in a refrigerator. 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 carried on his work developing living juice therapies for people with cancer, including Nobel Laureate Dr. Albert Schweitzer and his family. Until the early 1990’s the ‘Norwalk’ remained the only machine that produced a living juice.

In 1993, another machine, which produced living juice, was developed. The Green Life Juicer won the grand prize at the International Invention Expo, Pittsburgh. The latest model twin gear juicer from the inventor of the Green Life machines, the Hippocrates by Greenpower now sells all over the world.

Over the past 20 years Vitality 4 Life have distributed top quality Living Juice Extractors in Australia and around the world, and seen the market and consumer awareness develop significantly in this area of living juice. Our company’s founder, Roger Akins is solely responsible for introducing the twin gear and single gear cold-pressed juicers to Australia.

The development of the time honoured Oscar - latest and greatest models now available are the Oscar Vital Max 900 & the Oscar 930 Pro, now means that there are single gear living juice machines available.

There are many advantages of Living Juicers over centrifugal juice extractors, such as their ability to juice everything including all green vegetables and herbs such as parsley and wheatgrass.

They deliver a minimum of 60% more nutrients and they deliver a living juice. In fact, most of the Vitality 4 Life juicers are more than just living juicers. They function as a complete vegetarian kitchen enabling the user to produce a variety of living foods including baby foods, pasta, pates, fruit sorbets, nut butters, frozen fruit ice creams.

Our juicers are dependable and manufactured to the highest standards. The Oscar Vital Max 900 comes with a 20 year warranty on the motor and gearbox and 5 years on parts. The Greenpower Hippocrates has a 12 year warranty on motor, gearbox and parts.