Counting calories when "juicing"

MrsPrice84
MrsPrice84 Posts: 4 Member
in Food and Nutrition
Hi everyone,

I use a Nutribullet and I wanted to know how do you count calories if you juice? I use mostly fruits, veggies and a little bit of flaxseed.

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  • LoseYouself
    LoseYouself Posts: 249 Member
    Count the calories the same as the whole fruits & vegetables.

    When you juice, the only thing you're losing is the fibre, which is minimal calories. (4 calories per gram of fibre removed, as fibre is a carbohydrate). I log the whole fruits and vegetables because it's better to slightly guess higher than to grossly underestimate your caloric intake.

    Just a question though, if you have a nutribullet, what does that have to do with juicing? Blending and juicing are not even close to the same thing. Curious.
  • emilyc1892
    emilyc1892 Posts: 11 Member
    Count the calories the same as the whole fruits & vegetables.

    When you juice, the only thing you're losing is the fibre, which is minimal calories. (4 calories per gram of fibre removed, as fibre is a carbohydrate). I log the whole fruits and vegetables because it's better to slightly guess higher than to grossly underestimate your caloric intake.

    Just a question though, if you have a nutribullet, what does that have to do with juicing? Blending and juicing are not even close to the same thing. Curious.

    Fibre doesn't have any calories. Well, I suppose it does but it's not absorbed by the body so it doesn't count. In the US, fibre is included in the total carb count on nutrition labels, so if you want to figure out your net carbs, you subtract the fibre. Elsewhere (eg here in the UK), fibre isn't included in the carb count, so no subtracting is needed.
  • LoseYouself
    LoseYouself Posts: 249 Member
    Count the calories the same as the whole fruits & vegetables.

    When you juice, the only thing you're losing is the fibre, which is minimal calories. (4 calories per gram of fibre removed, as fibre is a carbohydrate). I log the whole fruits and vegetables because it's better to slightly guess higher than to grossly underestimate your caloric intake.

    Just a question though, if you have a nutribullet, what does that have to do with juicing? Blending and juicing are not even close to the same thing. Curious.

    Fibre doesn't have any calories. Well, I suppose it does but it's not absorbed by the body so it doesn't count. In the US, fibre is included in the total carb count on nutrition labels, so if you want to figure out your net carbs, you subtract the fibre. Elsewhere (eg here in the UK), fibre isn't included in the carb count, so no subtracting is needed.

    Yes, fibre has calories since it is a carbohydrate. It is just not absorbed when eating. Or if we're looking at juicing, the fibre is removed. Nutrition labels are definitely different in the US and Canada versus UK like you mentioned, but the Myfitnesspal values for raw fruits and vegetables aren't a nutrition label, but are standard values. Thats why I'd encourage someone to log the raw fruits and vegetables whether eating them or juicing them. Besides, if OP is using a nutribullet, that isn't even juicing, just blending the whole foods so logging that should be a simple concept. Blending your food doesn't change the nutritional or caloric values.

    The reason it's called "net carbs" is because your body is not digesting/abdorbing the fibre the same as the rest of the carbohydrates. All carbohydrates have 4 calories per gram. So for each gram of fibre that leaves the body, that is 4 calories also not absorbed. Understand what I meant from my original reply now?

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