Juicing veggies and fruits without eating the pulp is wasteful...

Welcome fellow juicer. I have had my breville for almost 2 years. Check out u tube they have lots of demos and recipes. I have been fond of addinf ginger root or cilantro to my mixes, just experiment. The breville is so easy to clean. cheers.

 

Only if you consider humans only. Composting it is a good way to get it back into the cycle of producing more food. Feeding it to the pigs or chickens or crows would probably be better, but only slightly. Landfilling it or putting it down the drain, would be the real waste.

{ETA: of course, it is all the fiber, which you would probably be better off if you ate}

 

Juice is not so great.Commercial blenders like Vitamix or Blendtec are the current rage.
You get all the fiber and the cell wall is pulverized to yield max nutrients.
Eat the pulp and your stomach is fuller and your digestive health is tip top.
Green smoothies are fruit with greens that taste only like fruit.
Great deal on Blendtec on Ebay recently.Borders Books used blenders sold for $300 ,new was $1400

 

Many years ago I had a Vitamix. (It stayed with the house, along with nearly all my possessions, when I moved to Mexico close to 15 years ago.) Very soon after buying it I made "whole" juice by including everything. It tasted so awful that I never tried it again. We're just not meant to eat the rind and the seeds, etc., all ground up together.

However, if you're talking about squeezing out the juice and throwing away the edible solid portion of fruits and veggies, then you're throwing away food value. Weight Watchers lets you eat all the fruit and (most) vegetables you want, but juices count against your total allowed "points" for the day. That's because whole fruits and veggies (excluding the non-edible parts that Vitamix wanted people to grind up and eat) are more filling and nutritious than the juice alone, and because you're likely to consume far more calories before you feel full on juice than on whole foods.

Generally speaking, juice is far less healthy than the fruit or veggie it was extracted from.

Some people think that a juice diet will "cleanse" their intestines. But the intestines need solid food going through them for optimum health

 

Irony of ironies . . . . dr. Oz says, "don't drink your carbs" . . . . so yea . . . . maybe consider eating the pulp and tossing the juice.

 

We are not gorillas and we do not have the same nutritional needs as gorillas. Thus the comparison is not valid.

I think that extreme is just as mistaken as the other. Eat the whole food (minus the non-digestible parts like the rind).

On a normal day I eat about a quart of salad. Typically that's the first course of my lunch. With supper I eat some veggies, probably 5 times as much as most Americans would consider a "serving." The typical side of vegetables in a restaurant is about 1/5 of my supper veggie serving.

 

If you are eating so much green leafies that you are getting unpleasant reactions, that means you are eating too much. Which nutrients do you feel you are not getting enough of? Perhaps there is a better option for those nutrients.

 

Dude, you are causing Global Warming.
Try Beano.
Seriously though.
If you juice too much carrots and kale you could risk vitamin A OD.

 

Eating too many veggies has other down sides. Here's a post i did about 4 years ago:


http://priuschat.com/forums/freds-h...cise-eat-right-then-go-straight-hospital.html

I was the healthiest person in the E.R.
(shaking head)
I'll bet that was Kalispell's 1st organic stone.
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