Vitamins in homemade juices
Q. I am wondering how to calculate the nutritional content of home-made vegetable juices. For example, I made a day's worth of juice using 4 lbs of green leafy vegetables, plus a variety of other vegetables in my juicer. How do you suggest juices be analyzed?
A. That’s a tough one. Some of nutrients are going to be left behind in the pulp (which is mostly fiber). But exactly how much is left behind depends on which nutrients, where they are found in the fruit (i.e, flesh or skin), and what kind of juicer you use. To know for sure, you'd need to have the juice analyzed--and each batch would be different, depending on how fresh and/or ripe the produce is and how fast you managed to analyze it!)
If it were me, I’d probably analyze the vegetables that went into the juice for a rough estimate. The amounts of some nutrients would be overstated. (For example, the juice would contain virtually no fiber, regardless of how much fiber you started out with.) But it would give you an idea what range of nutrients are provided by the juice, and the general amounts, ie., whether you’re getting closer to 100mg or 1000mg of vitamin C.
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Juices Drinks
Vegetable Juices are critical to good health because it is an important source of raw food. Each of us needs raw foods every day, and Vegetable Juices (Healthy Beverages) are an excellent way to make certain you receive large quantities of such raw foods.
