Calories in fresh squeezed juice vs. calories in whole fruit?!
what is the calorie difference between the 2!? my breakfast was a tall glass of freshly squeezed juice (3 carrots and 3 oranges)!. in the fruit there are 300 calories!. did i lose any calories not consuming the pulp!? oh and don't waste your time telling me about the fiber i'm not getting!. i just want to know about calories!.
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Answers:
You would loose a few calories left in the pulp but not much!. Maybe 10 or 20 calories!. Www@FoodAQ@Com
In this case, I don't think there would be a very big difference overall no matter how you eat/drink your fruit/veggies!. I'd think drinking the fresh, home squeezed juice would have slightly fewer calories than eating the same number of veggies/fruit used to make the juice, but not enough to really make a difference--probably just two or three calories less!.
I'm not sure really, but I'm saying that because it looks like if you ate the whole fruit, you'd be eating the juice as well as the other parts of the orange, where as if you just drank the juice, you wouldn't be eating the orange's flesh!. The carrots would have the same number of calories either way, I'd think, but I guess it depends on your juicer!.
Now, if you added anything to the juice, like sugar, the calories would go up as well!. Fruit juice you buy in the store usually has several times the calories of plain fruit because of this!.
Overall, I think they'd be about the same in calories for the same number of veggies/fruit!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
I'm not sure really, but I'm saying that because it looks like if you ate the whole fruit, you'd be eating the juice as well as the other parts of the orange, where as if you just drank the juice, you wouldn't be eating the orange's flesh!. The carrots would have the same number of calories either way, I'd think, but I guess it depends on your juicer!.
Now, if you added anything to the juice, like sugar, the calories would go up as well!. Fruit juice you buy in the store usually has several times the calories of plain fruit because of this!.
Overall, I think they'd be about the same in calories for the same number of veggies/fruit!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
Fruit juice is a more concentrated source of calories than solid fruits and vegetables!. A one-half cup serving of most vegetables and fruit contains from 25 to 70 calories!. Even a small serving of most fruit juice contains 70 to 105 calories, so how much you drink may increase your calorie intake and weight without you noticing!. Whole fruit or vegetable and the juice of the fruit or vegetable contain the same amount of calories, but the juice does not fill you up and so you consume more calories during the day!.
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If you did not juice these yourself, then chances are that additives the company put in your juice is what caused the extra calories!. I'm not going to lecture you on fiber or anything, but do know that fiber is "negative" carbs, in that your body doesn't digest them so the calories don't affect your system; in a juice, everything can be absorbed by your body so all 300 calories are in your system!.
I recommend juicing at home!. If you do not have a juicer, use a blender and add some milk (soy, regular, almond, rice, your choice) or even a touch of juice or water to get it into a smoother consistancy!.
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I recommend juicing at home!. If you do not have a juicer, use a blender and add some milk (soy, regular, almond, rice, your choice) or even a touch of juice or water to get it into a smoother consistancy!.
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There are no more calories in the juice of anything than there is in the whole food!. Calories don't multiply when you juice!.
The difference comes in the quantity!. When you drink a tall glass of juice, you are able to consume the calories of a large amount of fruit/veggies in a much smaller volume!. It would be far more difficult (and far less likely) for you to actually eat the 3 whole carrots and 3 whole oranges!. And if you did, you probably wouldn't eat anything else!.
So, you got all the calories, but you didn't get the "fullness" of eating all that food - therefore, you ate other things along with your juice!. That's where the extra calories come in!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
The difference comes in the quantity!. When you drink a tall glass of juice, you are able to consume the calories of a large amount of fruit/veggies in a much smaller volume!. It would be far more difficult (and far less likely) for you to actually eat the 3 whole carrots and 3 whole oranges!. And if you did, you probably wouldn't eat anything else!.
So, you got all the calories, but you didn't get the "fullness" of eating all that food - therefore, you ate other things along with your juice!. That's where the extra calories come in!.Www@FoodAQ@Com