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..

I know this thread is over a year old, but I found it when Googling how to count "calories in fresh juiced fruit."

hon, I, too, have wondered about how to calculate fresh juiced foods as I am going on a raw food diet (mainly fruit and veggies) -- being that I need to make sure I am getting enough calories so I won't "burn out." 

The thing is, if you are freshly juicing your foods with a juicing machine, the calories derived from a certain food in whole form may vary with the different qualities of the juicer.  Some of the cheaper versions have more wet pulp meaning that it hasn't extracted all of the juice out of the food.  This would mean that if you are considering the calories in a juice made from, let's say, 300 grams of carrots and go by the calories of that amount, you may have more juice (therefore, calories) from using a better juicer than a cheaper brand. So, that really wouldn't work.  There really needs to be a raw juice calorie counter listed in the options. ..... This is hard to find!

Hi treesha,

I've been having the same problem too! The closest thing I could find to an answer was this. Hope it helps :)

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http://www.ehow.com/how_5155227_count-calorie s-juicing.html

Here is a great website about figuring out the calories in fresh juice.  You simply find out the number of calories and grams of fiber in the servings of fresh fruit and veggies you are juicing.  Multiply the grams of fiber by four, which is the number of calories found in one gram of fiber, then subtract this number form the total calories and juice all your produce like normal.

I just found this rather old post while searching for the same answer for myself.  Rather than over-consume sugary juices under the guise that they are good for me as they are healthy, what I now prefer to do to reduce the calorie load is to substitute some of the fruit with a blander, less sugary veg like cucumber.  I also add other raw green veggies like cooked beetroot (not in vinegar!), brocoli, green beans and spinach, packed with fantastic vitamins and nutrients.  Obviously, the more you add, the more you'll detect their flavour. Make to suit your own taste. 

I do eat more veggies than fruit (they're lower in sugar) but when I'm running late, making and drinking a juice is quicker than preparing and eating breakfast.   I simply eat something more solid when I can.   Better than leaving home "empty".

Hope my suggestions help some people.

Original Post by johnnypenso:
Gumbo, I get a little tired of the "thought police"...

I would have to side with Gumbo on this one. Your post, while interesting and helpful, does not answer the question, which is how to count calories of freshly squeezed juices.

It is like if I asked you how to fix a flat tire and you replied that walking is way healthier and it does not pollute the environment. 

http://recipes.sparkpeople.com/recipe-calorie s.asp?recipe=2075686

just found this website, I've always guesstimated in the past but this will be a bit more accurate on calories and nutrition. Hope this helps.

in cases of carrot juice and apple juice, I would think it is the same as any pure juice sold in the store as far as calories go. I'm disinclined to think the pasteurization process removes or adds calories - just make sure no sugar is added and that the juice is pure juice.

So carrot juice is 94 calories per cup, apple juice is 117 per cup.

to find the caloric value of broccoli juice or cucumber juice I guess you have to get the weight of the veg before blending and figure it based on weight (minus insoluble fiber I guess).