Is Juicing worth it?

LolitaLove

Like many others (I'm sure) I recently watched the documentary 'fat, sick and nearly dead' which introduced me to the potential health benefits of juicing. I'm trying to decide whether to buy a juicer, but the £150 price tag, plus reading online it requires 3-4 oranges for just one glass of juice is making me wonder if the benefits are really worth it? I have a blender, smoothie maker and food processor. Is it the same difference if I just make smoothies (which I do already)? Or is juicing worth the extra cost? Thanks in advance for any replies x

lollipopsarah

I watched it too and was staggered at the cost per day, but then you could easily spend as much on junk food.
I was so glad to see the "big guy" do so well.
I would have thought a good quality blender would surfice if only only to maybe do one a day as a supplement.
xx

Ash_McCloud

Just eat the fruit instead, save £££££ very MSE :money:

fluffymuffy

Juicing things before you eat them is not a Natural thing to do. We haven't developed as animals to eat like that. Just eat the fruit as it comes. You don't need a gadget. There's very little to clean afterwards. Just a plate and a knife.

Leif

I was recently reading an article by a medical doctor who believes that some of our health issues are caused by too much sugar in our diets, including fruit juice. According to him, fruit juice is unnatural, as there is no fibre. The article was in the Sunday Times magazine, and I don't think he had concrete evidence for his views, but there could well be something in them. Unfortunately there are a lot of health fads around, probably because there is a lot of money to be made from selling books and gadgets, as well as 'health consultations' and so on. As said above, eat the whole fruit, minus the indigestible bits. And cut down on fat, eat more vegetables, less red meat, a decent amount of fish and nuts, and you'll be fine.

Myser

The juice from a juicer will be easier to drink however, you will lose much of the fibre. Although some of the newer juicers claim to retain most of the goodness.

Using a smoothie maker instead will enable you to retain the fibre however, the liquid will be much thicker and perhaps not taste as good.

Liquidising the fruits before consumption enables the nutrients to be absorbed into the body much more easily than eating the raw fruits.

rageagainstessays

Can I just say, I've seen oranges on sale 5/4 for a pound.
So if there is 5 in a pack, and you have to use 4 or them to make one glass then in reality you have paid £0.80 for a glass of juice (+ the cost of the juicer that you'll probably rarely use). If we assume that you use the juicer 100 times over its life and it is £150 then it has a cost of £1.50 per use....
So £1.50 (divded by however many glasses produced) + the cost of the fruit is not a very good deal

Stick to Fresh Press juice from the store.

jellie

Juicing might give you plenty of nutrients, but you also get a lot of calories which your body doesn't have to work to absorb.

You wouldn't sit and eat 4 oranges, but you'd get their calories if you juiced them. You'd also lose out on the fibre, so the juice wouldn't fill you up.

The blurb might say they're easy to clean, but they're not.

SuzieSue

jellie wrote: »

Juicing might give you plenty of nutrients, but you also get a lot of calories which your body doesn't have to work to absorb.

You wouldn't sit and eat 4 oranges, but you'd get their calories if you juiced them. You'd also lose out on the fibre, so the juice wouldn't fill you up.

The blurb might say they're easy to clean, but they're not.

Exactly this. And the cleaning is a pain.

McKneff

Just use your blender.

I put in on a morning half a banana, chopped nuts, raspberries etc. I also put in a couple of sprout (I promise, you cant taste them, and I hate sprouts) and half a carrot and some fruit juice. Lasts me 2 days.

The blender works just as well and I just rinse it out with soapy water.

fluffymuffy

Leif wrote: »

I was recently reading an article by a medical doctor who believes that some of our health issues are caused by too much sugar in our diets, including fruit juice. According to him, fruit juice is unnatural, as there is no fibre. The article was in the Sunday Times magazine,...

I think it was him I heard on a radio 4 program. He did an experiment where he got some children and asked them to eat as many oranges as possible in a certain time. They had six each to go at. Half the children had to eat the whole fruit (minus the skin!) and the other half had to juice them. The juicing children easily ate six oranges each whereas the whole fruiters managed an average of two each. Says it all really.