How to calculate "juicing" calories?

Jmgkamp

How do you do it?

Protranser

I'd imagine it's like making a smoothie. You weigh and log all raw ingredients.

Jmgkamp

That's what I thought. But unlike making smooth - the juicer removes all of the fibrous bits and there's a lot of compost/waste. I can't figure it out. I prefer to chew my food but have agreed to juice to support an I'll friend.

Protranser

Yeah, i mean if you're doing this for a short time then it won't change your weight drastically anyway id imagine, so you will probably have to experiment to see if logging and weighing raw and discarding the pulpy bits is less caloric than eating the whole fruit/vegetable. Good luck on that! I wouldn't juice as a way of eating long term because, like you, i prefer eating food :-)

heybales

If a good juicer the pulp is going to be fiber you'd never absorb anyway - even though it's calorie count would have been included in any nutrition info.

Weigh the juice you actually drink, log the fruit/vegetable per 100 g amount and do the math, and know you are actually getting a more valid calorie count for the what the body is getting than if you ate it.

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MrsSylvie

the way i was told to estimate juicing calories was by;
totaling up the calories of veggie/fruit used
totaling up fiber grams of veggie/fruit used
take total of fiber grams and multiply it by 4 calories
minus the fiber calories total from the veggie/fruit calories total

MorganMoreaux

I use a scale. I zero out the scale with my glass on it. I then juice the first item and pour the juice into the glass and note the weight. I zero the scale again with the glass and the juice from the first item, and then pour the juice of the second item and record the weight. I repeat for everything I juice.

Since I juice the same thing for the most part (kale, spinach, arugula, pineapple, carrots, beets, apples) I have created a recipe for quick add.

Hope this helps

emhunter

heybales wrote: »

If a good juicer the pulp is going to be fiber you'd never absorb anyway - even though it's calorie count would have been included in any nutrition info.

Weigh the juice you actually drink, log the fruit/vegetable per 100 g amount and do the math, and know you are actually getting a more valid calorie count for the what the body is getting than if you ate it.

Thank you! I will use this!

Jmgkamp

Very helpful! Thank you!

jennesaxton11

Morgan, what's your exact recipe?

Merkavar

Eat the juicer waste?

Like disgusting pudding?

How much waste product is there?

yarwell

There are tools on the Internet to estimate juice composition that a popular search engine will find. There are entries here for published recipes like some from Jason Vale.

Sued0nim

Jmgkamp wrote: »

That's what I thought. But unlike making smooth - the juicer removes all of the fibrous bits and there's a lot of compost/waste. I can't figure it out. I prefer to chew my food but have agreed to juice to support an I'll friend.

Yup it just leaves the calories

But can your friend not eat normal food to support you

Because there is very little sating left in juice...I mean it's a great tasty and vitamin rich drink but a huge ol fail on the fill-you-up-o'meter

RuNaRoUnDaFiEld

heybales wrote: »

If a good juicer the pulp is going to be fiber you'd never absorb anyway - even though it's calorie count would have been included in any nutrition info.

Weigh the juice you actually drink, log the fruit/vegetable per 100 g amount and do the math, and know you are actually getting a more valid calorie count for the what the body is getting than if you ate it.

Some fruits contain soluble fibre as well as insoluble, apples have mucilage as an example. Our bodies need both types, to remove it makes no sense to me.

Francl27

Merkavar wrote: »

Eat the juicer waste?

Like disgusting pudding?

How much waste product is there?

I used to love the leftover fiber from homemade juice. It's the best part! I'd totally eat it, and just log the whole thing...

heybales

RuNaRoUnDaFiEld wrote: »

heybales wrote: »

If a good juicer the pulp is going to be fiber you'd never absorb anyway - even though it's calorie count would have been included in any nutrition info.

Weigh the juice you actually drink, log the fruit/vegetable per 100 g amount and do the math, and know you are actually getting a more valid calorie count for the what the body is getting than if you ate it.

Some fruits contain soluble fibre as well as insoluble, apples have mucilage as an example. Our bodies need both types, to remove it makes no sense to me.

True - but the amount of calories supplied by that soluble fiber normally eaten that is now in the filter is going to be very negligible, there is more inaccuracy in the nutrition info being used than with that difference.

Since this post wasn't about health benefits or should I do it, not going to comment on that aspect.
This was merely about getting estimate of calories from drinking it - which could be 2 glasses a day along with plenty of fresh fruit eaten.

Serah87

rabbitjb wrote: »

Jmgkamp wrote: »

That's what I thought. But unlike making smooth - the juicer removes all of the fibrous bits and there's a lot of compost/waste. I can't figure it out. I prefer to chew my food but have agreed to juice to support an I'll friend.

Yup it just leaves the calories

But can your friend not eat normal food to support you

Because there is very little sating left in juice...I mean it's a great tasty and vitamin rich drink but a huge ol fail on the fill-you-up-o'meter

Agree.

bmayes2014

Great question. I bought some raw pressed green (and root) juices this weekend and I love them! I tried beets for the first time (juiced) and realized that I really like them (who knew). The Veggies and fruit actually do fill me up. I wasnt sure how to enter it either. thanks!