Celery juice

Kitty121964

Celery juice? I never knew it had calories that I had to track. I drink 14-16 oz every morning on an empty stomach.Anyone else follow this protocol for healing? I use it as a medicinal. It bugs me that I have to count the calories of it! It’s about one whole bunch juiced. No pulp, just straight juice. There’s 10grams of sugar!! I’m really trying to focus on my sugar and salt intake.

Anyone have any experience with this?

cmriverside

Well, all food has calories. A whole bunch of celery is going to have calories - and sugar. I can't imagine celery has that much though, it's just about as low as you can get.

cmriverside

The natural sugar from fruit, vegetables and dairy should not be a concern to you unless you have a medical issue...even then most people can have some carbohydrates.

RelCanonical

What are you trying to heal? Maybe it would be more satisfying to eat the celery. With peanut butter and chocolate chips (don't come at me with your raisins, stay away). Yum.

missysippy930

RelCanonical wrote: »

What are you trying to heal? Maybe it would be more satisfying to eat the celery. With peanut butter and chocolate chips (don't come at me with your raisins, stay away). Yum.

I recently started putting garden veggie or chive and onion cream cheese on my celery. Peanut butter and mini chocolate chips sound good too. I don’t care for raisins.

OP, I’m curious to know what the medicinal purpose is too.

RelCanonical

missysippy930 wrote: »

RelCanonical wrote: »

What are you trying to heal? Maybe it would be more satisfying to eat the celery. With peanut butter and chocolate chips (don't come at me with your raisins, stay away). Yum.

I recently started putting garden veggie or chive and onion cream cheese on my celery. Peanut butter and mini chocolate chips sound good too. I don’t care for raisins.

OP, I’m curious to know what the medicinal purpose is too.

That sounds delicious! I'm gonna have to try that. I might put bacon bits on top for a little added crunch. Hooray for no-raisin team.

nutmegoreo

Celery juice is being promoted by that medical medium quack in a book he wrote. IIRC, he is the dude who charges something like $350 per 30 minute phone call to diagnose you over the phone because he talks to spirits, no actual medical training.

OP, all fruits and vegetables have naturally occurring sugar as well as calories. By juicing, you are also removing the fibre, which is important for gut health. If you don't want to count the calories, don't count them. Just know that you body does count them, because you are consuming them. I hope you find some solutions with whatever health concerns you are facing, although I doubt celery juice will be the answer.

snickerscharlie

^^^ So much this! Celery juice 'heals' absolutely nothing.

And the fibre *is* the most beneficial part of celery when eaten whole.

corinasue1143

I drink celery juice. I like it. If you haven’t tasted it, you would probably be surprised at how sweet it tastes. I don’t think it has many calories at all compared to the vitamins you get from it.
When I am near a fresh juice bar that is about 15 miles from me, I nearly always stop for a couple bottles vegetable juice to add healthy vitamins quickly and easily. Works super for me, and I LIKE them!

cwolfman13

Kitty121964 wrote: »

Celery juice? I never knew it had calories that I had to track. I drink 14-16 oz every morning on an empty stomach.Anyone else follow this protocol for healing? I use it as a medicinal. It bugs me that I have to count the calories of it! It’s about one whole bunch juiced. No pulp, just straight juice. There’s 10grams of sugar!! I’m really trying to focus on my sugar and salt intake.

Anyone have any experience with this?

All foods have calories. Calories in vegetables and fruits by and large come namely from sugar. Drink it if you want to, but I don't think it's healing anything. Juicing can be a quick and easy way to get in some vegetable content and vitamins and minerals...but that's about it.

Kitty121964

No more night sweats. No more hot flashes. No more seasonal allergies. And my inflammation from arthritis has reduced which equals less chronic pain. I’ve been juicing celery for a year now. Stopped twice once for 3 weeks and once for 4 (out of pure laziness) All those issues came back.
Believe what you like, no need to be rude. I choose love 💚 and I wish peace and love to you all 😇🙏🏻💞🙌🏻

TeaBea

Kitty121964 wrote: »

No more night sweats. No more hot flashes. No more seasonal allergies. And my inflammation from arthritis has reduced which equals less chronic pain. I’ve been juicing celery for a year now. Stopped twice once for 3 weeks and once for 4 (out of pure laziness) All those issues came back.
Believe what you like, no need to be rude. I choose love 💚 and I wish peace and love to you all 😇🙏🏻💞🙌🏻

I'm thinking more placebo effect than anything. Wouldn't the pharmaceutical industry be all over this with a pill if it really cured so many ailments?

earlnabby

We had a few posts about celery juice last summer when the fad first hit but it faded quickly, not just on MFP but out in the "health" industry too. Wasn't fancy enough for the influencers I guess.

lemurcat2

I don't think celery juice does anything magical, but it does have some vitamins and minerals. Putting 16 oz of celery juice into Cronometer gives me about 85 cal, 11.2 g of sugar, and a good bit of potassium, as well as all my Vit A (although A is going to be high in any diet with fruit and veg anyway, so the extra is hardly needed).

So long as one is not relying on juicing for one's veg and fruit generally or relying super heavily on one source like celery, I don't see any harm, however detrimental and obviously scammy I think the Medical Medium is.

If one wanted to be nitpicky, sugar from juice counts as free sugar for the WHO, and the WHO recommends getting less than 10% of cals (ideally less than 5%) from free sugar, so it would make it harder to meet that goal. But IMO celery juice is reasonably nutritious so as long as you are also getting in plenty of whole veg and some fruit, seems like a nice enough addition if it's tasty. I like the taste of celery in general (it's one reason I also love celeriac) so have on rare occasion bought some juice with celery as one of the components and enjoyed it.

paperpudding

Kitty121964 wrote: »

No more night sweats. No more hot flashes. No more seasonal allergies. And my inflammation from arthritis has reduced which equals less chronic pain. I’ve been juicing celery for a year now. Stopped twice once for 3 weeks and once for 4 (out of pure laziness) All those issues came back.
Believe what you like, no need to be rude. I choose love 💚 and I wish peace and love to you all 😇🙏🏻💞🙌🏻

could not see any rudeness at all in preceding posts - people gave general information and disagreed with you about healing properties of celery juice, all in totally polite way.

I expect it is also high in Vitamin K - as most green veggies are - but that will be a non issue, unless you are on specific medications that vitamin K interacts with.

I agree with other posters: if you like it, and it makes you feel better (by whatever mechanism, most likely placebo effect) drink it.
Green smoothies are something many people do like ( I am not one of them myself)

But of course it has calories, all food does - and if you want to log accurately, you should log them.

angelexperiment

I drink a suja juice which has celery romaine etc in it it is only 40 cal and 9 g carb