How do you Calculate the calories when you juice???

Kess31
Kess31 Posts: 27 Member
edited November 12 in Health and Weight Loss
Im not sure how to actually calculate my calories when I juice my fruits and veggies... I have been entering in the whole fruit or vegetable. But I am not eating the fruit or the skin only the juice... Does anyone know how this should be calculated. I have looked up juice apple ex... nothing is helping... Give me some ideas... other then that I am counting that im having more calories and sugar then I am.

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  • MTBrob
    MTBrob Posts: 513 Member
    doesn't have to be exact on such things.. you will never get exact any how.. just measure it by the size of fruit pre-juice like you are already doing.
  • Jorra
    Jorra Posts: 3,338 Member
    Weigh what you put in the juicer, weigh the pulp, subtract the difference.
  • VeganZombie13
    VeganZombie13 Posts: 297
    I use the recipe thing on here I measure it by cups or the whole fruit/veggie..
  • HeartME511healthy
    HeartME511healthy Posts: 163 Member
    Im not sure how to actually calculate my calories when I juice my fruits and veggies... I have been entering in the whole fruit or vegetable. But I am not eating the fruit or the skin only the juice... Does anyone know how this should be calculated. I have looked up juice apple ex... nothing is helping... Give me some ideas... other then that I am counting that im having more calories and sugar then I am.

    I did a reboot program and this was challenging for me as well, so the only way it worked for me was to measure everything on the scale. so if you do eliminate the skin then try to calculate this without the skin maybe say a small apple opposed to a large one or build the recipes was one way too. So if I did 1 apple, celery, cucumber and juiced it then I measure it in oz what I was actually going to drink. If it measure out to be 16 oz and I only drank 8 then I would build the recipes and say how much it yielded, then say how much I actually drank. It added up and I did see the difference in building my own recipes.
  • Maddi_InBetweenDays
    Maddi_InBetweenDays Posts: 177
    When I juice it's a pretty generic veggie juice with carrots, celery and various kinds of lettuce, maybe an apple. I went through the database and averaged out what a typical homemade juice was and came up with about 85 to 90 cals per cup. That is on the high side, but I always figure it's best to over estimate food and under estimate the exercise.
  • AliceNov2011
    AliceNov2011 Posts: 471 Member
    Add all the calories of the whole fruit/vegetables.
    Add all the fiber of the whole fruit/vegetables.
    Multiply the total amount of fiber by 4 (calories per gram).
    Subtract the fiber calories from the total number of calories.

    That's your juice number!

    Mine is about 90 calories, 51 g carbs, 11 g protein per cup.

    1 carrot
    1 celery
    2 small Fuji apples
    1 large coin of ginger
    1/2 cucumber
    2 cups kale
    huge bunch of parsley
    huge bunch of wheat grass (I grow my own)
    1/2 lemon or lime
  • Kess31
    Kess31 Posts: 27 Member
    Thank you all so much... I was getting 200 plus calories from juicing and I knew that couldnt be right... So I will build the recipie and do some math... Thank you this was very helpful cause I drink about 3.5 cups for breakfast and that includes cucumbers, carrots, berries, 2 apples, ex... Thanks again... and it made my sugar intake very high also...
  • AliceNov2011
    AliceNov2011 Posts: 471 Member
    It's good sugar. I ignore anything not processed... and I never eat processed. ;c)
  • njmp
    njmp Posts: 277 Member
    I REALLY though this was going to be about steroids...
  • AliceNov2011
    AliceNov2011 Posts: 471 Member
    LOL!
  • Kess31
    Kess31 Posts: 27 Member
    I just found out Juicing was a term used for Steriods..... I had no clue... Thanks for the advice everyone
  • Juniper88
    Juniper88 Posts: 142
    Ha! This is EXACTLY what I was also trying to figure out!
    Thanks for posting this question and THANKS to everybody else for all of the helpful tips!
  • TammJ
    TammJ Posts: 1
    LOL
  • itsmeclee
    itsmeclee Posts: 4
    got to http://www.wolframalpha.com/ and enter your foods, i.e. 5 carrots= 67 cal. (juiced):love:
  • kmcosgrove115
    kmcosgrove115 Posts: 260 Member
    http://myphytos.com/

    Great site that calculates the amt based on what you put in the juice.....................
  • Mokey41
    Mokey41 Posts: 5,769 Member
    You're only throwing away the fiber of the fruits/veggies (which by the way you need to eat for proper bowel health) which is virtually calorieless. The poster above is way off on her juice calories. 2 apples alone is well over 100 calories.
  • Lilbit992
    Lilbit992 Posts: 3 Member
    Great site... Thank you
  • Lilbit992
    Lilbit992 Posts: 3 Member
    myphytos.com that is..
  • MB_Positif
    MB_Positif Posts: 8,897 Member
    I thought juicing was illegal!? :noway:
  • aprillaffertydenomme
    aprillaffertydenomme Posts: 1
    Fruit and vegetable juicing...
  • kerstinelaine
    kerstinelaine Posts: 11 Member
    This is what I use when I make my juice. If I want to change what I use, it's easy enough to do.

    http://juicerecipes.com/build/
  • WalkingAlong
    WalkingAlong Posts: 4,926 Member
    You're only throwing away the fiber of the fruits/veggies (which by the way you need to eat for proper bowel health) which is virtually calorieless. The poster above is way off on her juice calories. 2 apples alone is well over 100 calories.
    I agree. The fiber is nondigestible so you're not really removing anything your body doesn't remove. So calorie in the juicer = calories out, in my opinion.
  • wbchunks
    wbchunks Posts: 4 Member
    I'm trying to work this out also.

    Have tried both of the sites suggested above. Both look great but give different results?

    I have just juiced (uk);

    500g Carrots
    50g Celery
    200g Apple

    Myphytos is telling me 96cals per serving
    juicerecipes is telling me 173cals.

    Either I'm missing something or it's all too confusing !! :drinker:
  • josey425
    josey425 Posts: 1
    juicerecipes will give you the calories in its totality. Myphytos calculates the calories per 8oz.

    When I juice, I make in bulk and store in 16 oz mason jars. I use my mason jar as a serving so I take the juice that I have done and put in the jars. Then I use juicerecipes and divide by the number of jars I have. That's how I calculate my servings. You may divide by whatever you are using as a serving.

    I prefer juicerecipes. It is much easier to use than the others.

    Good luck and happy juicing!
  • wbchunks
    wbchunks Posts: 4 Member
    Thanks Josey :smile:
  • VinEnzo
    VinEnzo Posts: 11
    I've asked juice recipes if they're planning on making an app. It would be much easier. With iOS 8 coming soon, it allows apps to send data back and forth, so that way you could build a juice in juice recipes and all that info could be added to MyFitnessPal.
  • marilynjburton
    marilynjburton Posts: 1 Member
    I noticed that there are several juicing calculators online if you just do a Google search. However, I also noticed that if you just add the word "juiced" when you are searching the food database on My Fitness Pal, there are numerous additions of juiced fruits and vegetables. I used the Recipe feature and built my own recipe. For example, one recipe that I have is called Farmers Market Juice, so I made a recipe and used that name. The ingredients are 1 apple, 1 cucumber, 2 carrots, and a handful of strawberries. I used 1 large gala apple, 1 large cucumber, 2 medium carrots, and 5 medium strawberries. I was able to find all of those ingredients by adding the word "juiced" after each item. (gala apple juiced). I didn't find a large gala apple, so I said I had 1.6 medium gala apples. This recipe yielded 20 oz of juice and I split it with my husband, so I said that the recipe was 2 servings when I built it. The total calories were 85 per person. The next time I made that recipe, I was able to pull up the recipe and add 1 serving to my daily food. Voila!

    P.S. If you want to get very particular, you could weigh or check the volume of each item after you juice it because several of the juiced items in the food database had the grams or milliliters listed. I just used small, medium, and large. Close enough for me. I have 200 calories wiggle room anyway. (1200 to 1400 per day)
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