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Squeezed Orange

sophiegarcia411
sophiegarcia411 Posts: 8 Member
edited November 2024 in Food and Nutrition
My boyfriend likes to squeeze and juice navel oranges to put the juice in his margarita. I eat the leftover pulp of the orange that contains little juice. Would this be equal to the same number of calories as a regular orange?

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  • fitoverfortymom
    fitoverfortymom Posts: 3,452 Member
    I would log it as regular orange, by weight.
  • sgt1372
    sgt1372 Posts: 3,997 Member
    No. Most of the cals from an orange would come from the fructose (sugar) in the juice.

    How any cals left over in the pulp after juicing would be just a guess but I'd treat it as zero
  • avadahm
    avadahm Posts: 111 Member
    It would be less because a lot of the sugar and calories is in the juice. You’re getting the fiber, mostly.
  • SaraBrinksey9
    SaraBrinksey9 Posts: 21 Member
    avadahm wrote: »
    It would be less because a lot of the sugar and calories is in the juice. You’re getting the fiber, mostly.

    How many calories do you think that is?
  • NovusDies
    NovusDies Posts: 8,940 Member
    SaraBrinksey9 wrote: »
    avadahm wrote: »
    It would be less because a lot of the sugar and calories is in the juice. You’re getting the fiber, mostly.

    How many calories do you think that is?

    If I were going to log it I would log it at 20 calories. That is my best guess factored a little higher than I think it might be. I think it could be lower but I really don't think it could be higher. I could be wrong though.

  • serindipte
    serindipte Posts: 1,557 Member
    fitoverfortymom wrote: »
    I would log it as regular orange, by weight.

    This is what I would do
  • avadahm
    avadahm Posts: 111 Member
    SaraBrinksey9 wrote: »
    avadahm wrote: »
    It would be less because a lot of the sugar and calories is in the juice. You’re getting the fiber, mostly.

    How many calories do you think that is?

    Depends? Is the OP eating the rind, too? Is the juice squeezed all out? Is it a big orange? I’m not thinking it’s much but you can likely google nutritional information for an orange rind to be kind of accurate by weight- assuming its rind, too. If it’s not, I wouldn’t bother logging.



  • livingleanlivingclean
    livingleanlivingclean Posts: 11,750 Member
    Weigh the orange, weigh or measure the juice, weigh the skin after you've eaten your bit.

    Log the orange by weight (orange weight - skin weight), log negative calories for the juice.
  • lynn_glenmont
    lynn_glenmont Posts: 10,137 Member
    edited May 2018
    livingleanlivingclean wrote: »
    Weigh the orange, weigh or measure the juice, weigh the skin after you've eaten your bit.

    Log the orange by weight (orange weight - skin weight), log negative calories for the juice.

    Or, for a rougher estimate, go to the USDA database and subtract the values for orange juice, raw (juice from one orange) from the values for orange, raw (one orange).

    ETA: also, is this a common concern, or are the same poster who asked the same question a few months ago? I don't think you're going to get different answers this time.
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