Benefits of Juicing Is it worth the Hype?
Juicing may be a way to get nutrients from fruits and vegetables, but is it actually good for you?If you know someone who juices all the time, you’re in their house and you see all
the fruits and vegetables, the juicer machine with all the accessories. They need to hear this.
In fact, juice bars seem to be popping up everywhere.
What are the benefits of Juicing?
- We all know that fruits and vegetables are good for you, and juicing is a quick and easy way to get multiple servings in a concentrated form.
- You can also easily absorb the nutrients.
- When you juice fruits and vegetables, they are in a serum soluble form. That means that they’re in a liquid form that your body can use quickly and easily.
Here is a little science bit just for you guys, when you eat food or drink a beverage, your body brings it into solution and it liquefies it no matter what. When you remove the fiber, the juicer already has done the work for you, so separating the juice from the pulp makes nutrients easy to absorb. - When you juice or allow your fruits and vegetables to be juiced, you reduce waste and if you use the fiber in other recipes, even better.
What are the cons of Juicing?
- Despite popular belief, juicing alone won’t help you lose weight.
- If you juice fruits or sweet veggies, such as carrots and beet, it’s a lot of sugar and it’s in your bloodstream immediately.
Do you know that carrot juice could contain up to 30 grams of sugar per serving?Sure, it’s carrot juice. Sure, it’s got vitamins and minerals but it’s still has a lot of sugar. - Your body doesn’t really need juice. In fact, if you look throughout history there are only a few juices people consumed and it would be grape juice in the form of wine, and the fermentation removes the sugar.
- Juicing is missing the fiber. Fruits and vegetables were made to have fiber. You need fiber so juicing can be a challenge by stripping the fiber and overloading your body with sugar.
Make juices a part of your diet, not the main course. If you do juice then it should be vegetables first, fruits later. When you look at these juices you buy in the store today, they’re almost always full of fruit such as apple juice, which is not all it’s cracked up to be especially if it’s pasteurized.
If you’re buying juice or making it, it’s got 20, 25, 30 grams of sugar per serving, that’s a challenge for most people.
So heavy on the greens, light on the fruit, may not taste as good but it will be good. In fact, the juice that I like is a combination of celery juice and parsley and then I blend up cucumber and mix it so you’ve got some of the fiber, some of the juice really, really good and powerful greens.
If you replace a meal with juice limit it to few times a week, so you get the bulk of nutrients you need including fiber. Juice can be a challenge for your blood sugar.
If you want a detox, instead of immediately going on a juice cleanse remove the junk from your dietary trunk.
You can also consume broth as a detoxing beverage, which gives great nutrients such as minerals but without the sugar.
