calorie counting fresh juice

I have a juicer at home and like to make mixed fresh fruit juices at lunch time. How do I calculate the calories, so far I have just logged for eg 1 apple or 1 orange, but as the juicer removes all the pulp, surely I am not actually eating the whole of 1 apple of 1 orange.

The pulp/fibre of an apple or orange doesn't really contain that many calories .... they're all in the sugary part, the juice.  The alternative would be to measure how much juice is extracted from the apple and log it as 'apple juice' that way.

IMO eating the entire fruit is better for you.  Pulp/Fibre helps slow the digestion and you feel full longer.  I also slows the blood sugar rise which helps stops big swings which can lead to feeling hungry.

 

I also like to juice my own on occasion. I just look up the purest juice I can find in the list and add that. Luckily they have fresh carrot juice in the list so that makes things easy as that is my most common juice.

Thanks, i just like the juice as it is a nice fresh drink, and have always been very bad at actually eating fruit since I was a child, it seems like a good way to get that fruit goodness in me! I guess the easiest way is to just log the whole fruit then, I find that quite a lot of the fruit juices listed have added sugars.

I'm drinking juice like 3 times a day at the moment, and it's pretty much all I'm having. Probably not enough calories, but I'm sick at the moment and have no apetite. Plus juice really helps my eczema.

Add your juices as a brand of sugar free juice, I think they'd have very similar nutritional value.

When you juice, you are removing all the pulp and all the fibre, which helps to slow absorption and make you feel fuller longer.  Instead all you get is the sugar and the nutrients.  As far as your blood sugar spiking and crashing is concerned there is no difference to your body between drinking a glass of juice and a can of coke.  They both contain 100% of their calories from sugar and nothing else.  And natural sugar is no different than table sugar or any other sugar so far as your blood glucose levels are concerned.

Better off to eat the fruit...

I find it very interesting that someone askes a question about calorie content in fruit (similar to the one I have) and you take the opportunity to preach about the benefits of fresh fruit vs juice.  I get a little tired of respondents who decide their point of view is more important than the question being asked.  You may think you are being helpful, but you are not.  Many of us have decided we would rather drink fruit juice (some, such as myself, also have fresh fruit) and you should respect that.

Your comments would be welcome and helpful if the question had been "Do I get the same nutritional value from fruit juice as fresh fruit?"  But that wasn't the question ...

Gumbo, I get a little tired of the "thought police" making arbitrary decisions as to which posts belong in which threads as if they have all the answers as to what people find useful and do not find useful.  In this particular matter of "juicing" I find that a lot of people have the misconception that natural sugar is somehow different to the body than refined sugars and that is not the case.  If no one finds that of use, then they will skip over my comments and move on...I don't think you need to make that decision for anyone..