I have read few papers about extracting juice from fruits, but extracting juice from leaves is tricky!
Anyone who would like to share their experience?
I would consider using a soxhlet apparatus and an appropriate solvent depending on the type of compounds that you want to extract. I have seen it used for grass-like materials and worked fine
For this purpose you have to use simple jusour.First remove all the foreign materials like as dust and others with the help of water. Leaves with distilled water easily crushed and filter it with wet filter paper for use.
Thanks.
from my experience, i had to dry the leaves for 2 days in the oven or a week under the sun (if we want to use for antioxidant assay do not dry the leaves directly under the sun) and after that proceed with the maceration methods
Are you able to be more specific? What leaves to you want to extract and why do you want the juice (are processing further)? Are they fleshy leaves? Or are they tough leaves?
Simplest way I could see would be to put the leaves in a blender with a little water and keep adding leaves to the mix.
Mortar and pestle could work if there isn't a lot.
There is no mention for name of the plant and purpose of the usage of leaves juice.
If it is for usage for drinking aspect as a juice, you can mix with fresh drinking water using the mixer and can use after simple filtration.
If your interest is for biological screening / isolation of active molecule aspects, you should extract the room temp. dried leaves (for reproducible result) powder by soaking in the solvent of your interest and concentrate and freeze dry the extract for further use.
If you don't want to use any solvent, you need to use fresh leaves only. By simple maceration and pressing the macerated material to obtain thick concentrated small amount of liquid, you can directly freeze dry to get in dried powder form.
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