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Fruit juices are bad for this reason---too concentrated on the sugar without the fiber. Too caloric, yet people think they are being healthy.
The thing is, I would not eat a beet, or celery, rarely carrots or cucumbers, to tell the truth. I just don't.
As far as the quantities, I juice 2 beets and 2 carrots, a few stalks of celery and 1 cucumber for the 2 of us, so we are not eating larger quantities than IF we ate them whole. Neither one of us would care to eat that much whole, but we are advised to eat that much.
I just can't eat that much bulk, so I think it is beneficial in that sense. I know the adage about fiber, but *I can tell* I must be getting enough by what comes *out*.
Interesting that the responses are all against it.
Reminds me of the "drinking in retirement" thread! LOL. Answered by teetotalers.
Don't feel defensive. Your vegetable juice sounds healthful, and delicious (especially if you add ginger). As I mentioned, I like juice drinks and sometimes buy them, but they are expensive and I don't have a home juicer. I think one thing that would hold me back from getting one is the waste. Yes, I know you can compost the fibers, but we don't have a means of composting anything here and I would end up just throwing them away. That would distress me.
Plus, my family happily eats salads and both raw and cooked vegetables, without my nagging them. I might feel differently about juice if we didn't really like to eat vegetables.
We raise thousands of pounds of tomatoes every summer, and after the sauces are canned, we do make tomato juice. I especially like the yellow variety.
Juicing vegetables isn't as healthful as many people assume. Modern crops are not as nutrient dense as they were in our parents' and grandparents' day, due to mineral depletion of our soils.
That said, my wife often rices our broccoli and cauliflower, as neither of us cares for the texture of those foods. We raise our own, and feel it's better to eat them riced than not at all.
We raise thousands of pounds of tomatoes every summer, and after the sauces are canned, we do make tomato juice. I especially like the yellow variety.
Juicing vegetables isn't as healthful as many people assume. Modern crops are not as nutrient dense as they were in our parents' and grandparents' day, due to mineral depletion of our soils.
That said, my wife often rices our broccoli and cauliflower, as neither of us cares for the texture of those foods. We raise our own, and feel it's better to eat them riced than not at all.
I agree crops are not as nutrient-dense, but how does that change if you juice? They are that way no matter what, right?
I've riced cauliflower, but didn't know it was possible to rice broccoli. Hmmm
Yes we juice about 50% of our vegetables 2-3x a week.
Once week we sautee vegetables
Once a week we eat out which usually consists of a salad
Since Kale is a wonderful pain reliever and it allows me to see clearer, we juice that.
To cook it takes more time. It does it's job being juiced anyhow
I’d rather eat them. I don’t care much for the flavor of veg juice or the mess of cleaning up a juicer. Also the fiber is one of the healthiest things about vegetables, as others have pointed out.
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