If you are juicing...

MichelleB69

How do you figure your nutritional stats? IE I juiced 1 carrot, 1 med apple, 1 pear, and 1 kiwi tonight. For simplicity's sake, I guess I could count all the fruits, but I know does not properly reflect my intake. Any thoughts? And I apologize in advance if this subject has been beaten to death before...I just started back at MFP after a 6 month hiatus. Thanks!

txladybug41

I'd like to know that too. I have a "green smoothie" recipe and when I put all the ingredients in, my carbs added up very quickly (banana/apple in it, plus other veggies.) Anyway... this is new to me. Just trying it out to see if it can help my nutrition and weight loss.

red0801

Try this;
http://myphytos.com/


It's a website that you can enter the ingredients & it'll calculate the macros for you.

Hope it helps :-)

MochaMixAZ

I'm probably not the best to answer this, but I use a Vitamix so I do count the entire fruit.

If you're only extracting juice and not consuming the pulp and the meat, I honestly think you're missing some of the fantastic benefits of the green smoothie. But I won't get my soapbox out yet.

To keep it very straight forward, I think you'd need to juice the fruit and measure that - for each fruit. Then enter the stats for that juice.

I did find this information and thought it useful, plagiarized from the net:


ORANGES
One 8-oz. glass of orange juice has close to 2.5 times the sugar and just one-third the fiber of a typical piece of fruit. The stats from caloriecounter.com: the small juice contains 112 calories, 0.1 g dietary fiber, and 20.8 g sugar, while the fruit has 45 calories, 2.3 g dietary fiber, and 9 g sugar.

APPLES
An 8-oz. apple juice has roughly twice the sugar but less than one-tenth the fiber of a medium-sized apple. The stats: juice has 120 calories, 0.3 g dietary fiber, and 27.2 g sugar; the fruit has 72 calories, 3.3 g dietary fiber, and 14.3 g sugar.


GRAPES
A glass of grape juice contains — once again — about 2.5 times as much sugar as the same volume of fruit (one cup of grapes), although with about half as much fiber. The stats: juice has 154 calories, 0.3 g dietary fiber, and 37.6 g sugar; a cup of grapes has 62 calories, 0.8 g dietary fiber, and 15 g sugar.


PINEAPPLES
An 8-oz. juice has not quite twice the sugar contained in the same volume of fruit (one cup of diced pineapple), with roughly one quarter the fiber . The stats: juice has 140 calories, 0.5 g dietary fiber, and 34 g sugar; a cup of fruit has 74 calories, 2.2 g dietary fiber, and 14.4 g sugar.


Read more: http://healthland.time.com/2009/08/07/calorie-counter-fruit-vs-fruit-juice/#ixzz2UdNR8OJP

MichelleB69

Try this;
http://myphytos.com/


It's a website that you can enter the ingredients & it'll calculate the macros for you.

Hope it helps :-)

Thank you!

red0801

Try this;
http://myphytos.com/


It's a website that you can enter the ingredients & it'll calculate the macros for you.

Hope it helps :-)

Thank you

You are very welcome! Glad it workd 4 ya. :-)