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If you are juicing...

MichelleB69
MichelleB69 Posts: 213 Member
edited January 25 in Food and Nutrition
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!

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  • txladybug41
    txladybug41 Posts: 105 Member
    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
    red0801 Posts: 283 Member
    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
    MochaMixAZ Posts: 844 Member
    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
    MichelleB69 Posts: 213 Member
    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
    red0801 Posts: 283 Member
    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. :-)
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