Juice. good or not?

Hiya.

I was just wondering what your opinion on juice is?

I know it's full of sugar, but the vitamins are good right?

xXx

Hey!

Juice surely has vitamins and all, but I doubt that it has as much as fresh fruit. Juice also has a great amount of sugar and rarely any fibers in it!

For a healthier liquid fruit snack I take fresh fruit and put them into a blender - et voila! Your very own smoothiee creation :) You can go wild with the fruit combinations and other ingredients (sometimes I add flaxseed for fiber and healthy fats, for example).

You can also mix your DIY-smoothie with plain yogurt for a very healthy and low-sugar snack! Way better than the prepacked lowcarb/lowfat stuff you get in the stores!

I hope my answer was helpful to you :)

Fruit juice is a good drink....   If it's the 'freshly squeezed' chilled kind or if you squeeze it yourself it's going to have more vitamins than if it's the long-life kind.  There is sugar in it, yes, and it's not a good idea to drink gallons of the stuff because the lack of fibre means it's not particularly filling.  But a small glass of orange juice (or similar) from time to time is a pretty pleasant thing to have in your diet.

"There are no bad foods, only bad diets".  Enjoy a glass of juice.

Thanks for your advice.

I just had half a glass of apple and raspberry. Yummmmm

And i'm gonna go buy a big batch of fruit from the market and some youghurt to take to work next week. even Yummmmmmmmmmier!

xXx

I'm personally not a big fan of juice.

It doesn't seem to satisfy me.

And if I'm not satisfied with it, I don't think it's worth the calories.

Hm...

I prefer to eat and orange than drink orange juice.

I figure that if one is trying to lose weight, there's probably not room for more than 8 oz of juice a day in the daily diet.  Calorie load is just too high for how little it "fills you up".  But there are two kinds of juice that I drink 4-8 oz of, one or the other, most days, for their mictronutients.  Grapefruit juice (100% juice, all white) and grape juice (sometimes red wine instead, but not very often.) 

Or sometimes I'll add some unflavored protein powder to 8 oz of juice (typically orange).  That makes it a lot more filling.  Not a bad option if you're rushing out the door, when you don't have time for breakfast.

I personally don't trust 99.9% of store-bought juices. If you read the nutrition guide on the back they are very little natural fruit and a lot of added sugar so you're not really getting that much goodness from them and you get the empty calories. There is only one brand of store-bought juice I trust and I trust it because its only ingredients are fruit. You can really tell the difference in the taste and texture compared to regular juices.

So that's usually the only juice I drink. Every so often I will have another type of juice but only as an alternative to soda when I'm socialising and there's nothing healthier on offer. A lot of juices aren't really much better than soda though.

A good option is to have water with a little bit of freshly squeezed lemon juice :)

No sugar added juices are healthy, I love juice, but I don't like drinking calories, I feel like it's a waste, so I gave it up.

I usually reject fruit juice in favor of the whole fruit - more food, more filling, fewer calories.  I do like the low sodium V8 however, if I feel I'm short a serving of vegetables.

When I've got a cold and no appetite, then I go for the juice.  It's refreshing, cooling and gives a sugar boost that you sometimes need if you don't feel well.  I just don't make it a regular thing.

joaree,

What kind of juice is that? Please do share :)

I like Simply Orange.

It's Mill Orchard. I live in New Zealand though so it's unlikely it will be available to you, sorry.

In my opinion, juice is just another processed food, fresh squeezed or otherwise.  You take a perfectly good fruit, full of vitamins, minerals, nutrients, bulk and fibre, you process it to remove all the fibre and bulk so it can't make you feel full and all you are left with is an unknown portion of the nutrition and all the sugar.   Your blood sugar and your body in general, does not distinguish between fruit sugars and table sugar.  Eating 100 calories of juice has about the exact same effect on your insulin levels and internal organs and blood sugar level, as scarfing down 7 tsps of white sugar. 

Eat the fruit, skip the juice.   Mother nature put all that fibre and bulk in there for a reason..to slow the digestion of the food and make you feel fuller longer.