How do you calculate for juice?

katchoogranger
katchoogranger Posts: 1 Member
edited January 29 in Food and Nutrition
Hi everyone!

I like to make homemade veggie juice. A typical recipe *through the juicer* is

3 cucumbers
1/2 beat
2 carrots

How do you calculate the calories and info for just the JUICE (not the pulp)? Any help would be greatly appreciated. I tried adding this as a recipe but I couldn't figure out how to do it with just the juice and could only calculate as if I'd eaten all those veggies.

Thanks so much!

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  • micheleb15
    micheleb15 Posts: 1,418 Member
    You are really only taking out the fiber by removing the pulp, so I believe it would be around the same as if you ate the fruit/veggie.
  • technobunny
    technobunny Posts: 131 Member
    with a calculator
  • getting_fit86
    getting_fit86 Posts: 128 Member
    Calculate it as if you were eating the food normally.
  • alladream
    alladream Posts: 261 Member
    When I make stuff like that, I make it with the pulp and drink the whole thing, and add all the vegetables into the recipe as if they were eaten whole. As someone else says, the fiber is the main thing removed, and so I would feel like subtracting half or some percentage of the whole thing would be mistaken, although some may disagree. I guess you need to find a format and go with it! Good luck. If I were really confused and could not figure out what system made best sense to me, I would add in all the vegetables and just accept that *maybe* I consumed less, but at least I'm not fooling myself and actually consuming more calories etc. without knowing it.
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