Fruit juice

[ianbilly]

I know fruit juice can be dodgy due to added sugars but if you juice your own fruit and don't add anything but keep the pulp & fibre, is that ok in moderation?

 

[Ljc]

Hi I don't have fruit juice unless it's to treat a hypo.

 

[Martin Canty]

To be honest, not really, you are packing probably multiple oranges & extracting nothing but the juice which contains the sugar leaving the fiber out..... Sad as I used to like juice......

 

[AlisonM]

Tried it, cos I was a real fresh fruit freak before dx, I only do it now if I'm hypo and out of jelly babies. Even if you don't add sugar, there's still the fructose to consider. Try it and see, you might be lucky.

 

[ianbilly]

Thanks all I guess I will stick to the whole fruit then.

 

[khskel]

100 ml of fresh orange juice contains 10+ g of carbs of which approx 8 are sugar.

 

[Ralph-YK]

I know fruit juice can be dodgy due to added sugars

It's all the sugar in it. Nothing to do with added.

but keep the pulp & fibre, is that ok in moderation?

You're best of as keeping it as fruit, then you get Everything.

 

[DeusXM]

Your body does not distinguish between 'added' sugar and 'natural' sugar - this is the massive myth perpetuated by the food industry. As far as your body is concerned, it's all sugar.

That's why you get all these apologetic notes on juices saying 'although this product is high in sugar, this is from the natural sugars in the fruit'. Which is a bit like saying 'although this bacon is high in fat, this is from the natural fat in the pig'.

 

[pav]

I keep the small cartons in the car for when needed, trouble I found when buying the big ones like the 1 litre size is once opened I drink more than I should, so that's another item no longer bought. I still eat fruit but like grapes spread them out over a period of time, according to my DN I should not be eating fruit at all which is not going to happen as I do like fruit.

 

[Manda1]

I haven't been told not to eat fruit but I have been told to avoid fruit juices as the are loaded with sugar x I get so confused with it all at times x

 

[grovesy]

I haven't been told not to eat fruit but I have been told to avoid fruit juices as the are loaded with sugar x I get so confused with it all at times x

Eating fruit has fibre so it slows the release of the sugars, when juiced the fibre is broken down so the sugars act more quickly.

 

[Northerner]

I haven't been told not to eat fruit but I have been told to avoid fruit juices as the are loaded with sugar x I get so confused with it all at times x

There was a simple experiment on one of those food sciencey programmes - take a big glass of fruit juice and drink it, and then try to eat the equivalent amount of whole fruits - you soon realise how much more you are getting in the fruit juice 😱 Same goes for smoothies as well - they are mostly NOT healthy. Most have a base of banana and/or grape, plus tons of whatever fruit it is flavoured with, plus probably some extra sugar for good measure - carb hell! 😱

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/a...othies-sugar-13-Hobnobs-3-half-doughnuts.html

(note: figures/comparisons in article are just sugar - not counting all the other carbs! 😱)

 

[Ralph-YK]

I keep the small cartons in the car for when needed, trouble I found when buying the big ones like the 1 litre size...

The 1 litre is the small size. {*looks at pile of empty cartons from today*}

 

[Deleted member 16779]

There was a simple experiment on one of those food sciencey programmes - take a big glass of fruit juice and drink it, and then try to eat the equivalent amount of whole fruits - you soon realise how much more you are getting in the fruit juice 😱 Same goes for smoothies as well - they are mostly NOT healthy. Most have a base of banana and/or grape, plus tons of whatever fruit it is flavoured with, plus probably some extra sugar for good measure - carb hell! 😱

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/a...othies-sugar-13-Hobnobs-3-half-doughnuts.html

(note: figures/comparisons in article are just sugar - not counting all the other carbs! 😱)

I think we should be doing our bit not to link to these fake news sites. The DM's science reporting is some of the worst in the world, plus their idea of medicine is to divide everything up into either cancer-causing or cancer-preventing.

 

[grovesy]

The 1 litre is the small size. {*looks at pile of empty cartons from today*}

You get in 250 MLS in multiple packs meant for lunch boxes.

 

[Ralph-YK]

250 mls! That's almost nearly a mouthful!!!!

 

[grovesy]

Well that would be more than enough for me to treat a hypo.

 

[Ralph-YK]

Well that would be more than enough for me to treat a hypo.

That's worth knowing.

 

[desdinova]

What about the Nutribullet?.... you get all the peel pulp everything. nothing is left out unless you cut it out with a knife before butting it in the bullet. I ask this because since being diagnosed and stopping my daily juices my immune system seems to have collapsed its been nothing but strep throats, boils, zits, mouth ulcers, colds, chest infections, You name it . I didnt get any while I was juicing

 

[Ginger]

Is the Nutribullet a blender rather than a juicer? A blender is better than a juicer (depending on what you put in it of course 🙂 ) because it is only pureeing food and is therefore the equivalent of eating the whole fruit or veg, whereas a juicer extracts the sugary juice without the fibre to slow down carb release.

Only the smoothies you buy in the shops are unhealthy, the ones made at home can be very healthy because you control what goes in them. Shop ones contain high GI fruit like banana, plus juice (bad) and who knows maybe even sugar. Home made ones can contain a smaller amount of better-for-us fruit/berries, veg e.g. spinach, yoghurt/coconut milk/lower carb liquids, so actually pretty healthy. DM headlines are the last place to get health advice from 🙄 🙂