Tastes adapt with time. Other people were amazed when they saw me eating apples in 2008. Now I can eat just about raw anything, I often find myself eating raw food as I put it into the steamer, but generally I prefer cooked. I am probably about 30% raw I guess.
Interesting, so the vitamix probably helps a lot to get onto a raw diet by making it easier to eat raw, then your taste buds adapt after a while and you can go further.
But has that affected your ability to eat whole raw veg? Do you find you can now eat raw kale, for example, whereas before you couldn't?
Presumably though you prefer the juices, most people with Vitamixes praise them.