Is juicing just as good as eating the full vegetable?
My husband hates vegetables but he is able to juice them with fruit and drink them. Is that strategy just as good as eating the vegetables?
He would juice a head of cabbage, 2-3 carrots, a bush of broccoli, 1/2 a squash, a bush of collard greens, celery, apples, oranges, blackberries and strawberries. He drinks about 24 oz daily. Is he getting the proper serving of vegetables and fruit by juicing them this way?
You get more vitamins and minerals but no fiber when you juice. It’s also easier to drink about 10 vegetables in one glass than to eat about 4 pounds of vegetables whole. On the other hand, it gets pretty expensive to do that all the time.
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yes very good, easy, tasty, and healthy, just as healthy as eating them
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you’re missing the FIBER thats in the skins and pulp…
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Yes, he is only missing out of the fiber.
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You get more vitamins and minerals but no fiber when you juice. It’s also easier to drink about 10 vegetables in one glass than to eat about 4 pounds of vegetables whole. On the other hand, it gets pretty expensive to do that all the time.
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Your getting the same minerals and vitamins, but your not getting the fiber and roughage. SO if he will not eat his veggies, but likes juicing, then I think that is just fine.
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Sounds healthy, but not as good as the full vegetable. Juicing reduces fiber and it’s benefits.
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I believe it’s fine but I do know that many times it It is the skin on fruits and veggies with most of the fiber. You may want to suggest having a few solid fruit and veggies
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If he doesn’t strain the juice and drinks the pulp also I would say yes .
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ya, kinda. if you have a vita-mix, or something that can juice/blend the whole veggie. but if not, he’s doing okay. i don’t eat fruit or veggies either, without juicing/blending them.
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When you are juicing the vegies, you are only getting the stuff that is dissolvable in water. But in vegies is also stuff that is not dissolvable in water vitamin E and vitamin A for excample. And as mentioned by the users before the fiber is good against cancer of the bowels. And in the fiber might be some stuff that is only dissolvable by the acid in the stomach.
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After jucing, just eat the pulp or add to the drink, for fiber. There are some veggies that should be cooked to get the complete complement of nutrition from them. He should also take a very good multivitamin/mineral supplement.
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Juicing is a good thing, but no it is not enough alone.
Everyone seems to think all the good things about vegetables, like vitamins, are in the flesh and not the skin. Its not just fiber you miss out by not eating the skin.
"Interestingly, the antioxidant activity in sweet potato skin, regardless of its color, is almost three times higher than in the rest of the tissue."
http://www.whfoods.com/genpage.php?tname=foodspice&dbid=64
Tomato skins are high in lycopene and caretonoids that are lost.
http://jn.nutrition.org/cgi/content/abstract/135/4/790
And also with tomatoes and some other veggies/fruits, the nutrients are not as bioavailable (able to be used by the body) when they are raw as they are when they are cooked. And as someone mentioned earlier the fat soluble vitamins need fat to come out of the veggie and be eaten and absorbed.
12http://www.redorbit.com/news/health/1397869/raw_veggies_not_always_better_than_cooked/index.html
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you’re missing the FIBER thats in the skins and pulp…
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