How to count calories in Juices?

MadCatLady302

Okay, so how the heck are you supposed to count calories in a homemade juice?

I may be wrong, but I assume the majority of the calories are in the pulp, which I extract, or are most of the calories in the fructose, which probably makes its way into the juice??

Basically, I made a juice (NOT smoothie) out of 1 medium pear, 80g blueberries, small lemon wedge and about 5 handfuls of spinach.

Any suggestions??

cmriverside

Use the nutrition amounts for the full fruit/veg.

The pulp is the fiber, the juice is the calories/fructose.

cwolfman13

MadCatLady302 wrote: »

Okay, so how the heck are you supposed to count calories in a homemade juice?

I may be wrong, but I assume the majority of the calories are in the pulp, which I extract, or are most of the calories in the fructose, which probably makes its way into the juice??

Basically, I made a juice (NOT smoothie) out of 1 medium pear, 80g blueberries, small lemon wedge and about 5 handfuls of spinach.

Any suggestions??

The calories are coming from the sugar in the juice...the pulp is fiber.

lemurcat12

Log the fruit/veg, but then subtract the fiber. You aren't saving any calories by juicing them.