I love 100% juice. V8, OJ, Sambazon açaí, grape juice. Sadly, the OJ and grape juice has 25-39g sugar per serving. Yikes!
I’m not really a fan of pulp or of paying $4/glass for fresh squeezed so does anyone have any other off the shelf suggestions?
I love 100% juice. V8, OJ, Sambazon açaí, grape juice. Sadly, the OJ and grape juice has 25-39g sugar per serving. Yikes!
I’m not really a fan of pulp or of paying $4/glass for fresh squeezed so does anyone have any other off the shelf suggestions?
It’s not what you are asking, but I would suggest eating fruit instead of drinking it. By eating, the sugars are digested (because of the fiber) in a perfect time-release fashion…almost as if God intended (if you believe that sort of thing). Not so when you drink the juice. That’s my understanding.
Personally, I don’t drink juice anymore.
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I switched from orange juice to coconut juice. It has to be cold otherwise it’s pretty awful, but it’s half the amount of sugar as orange juice.
I switched from orange juice to coconut juice. It has to be cold otherwise it’s pretty awful, but it’s half the amount of sugar as orange juice.
I agree. There is a MASSIVE difference between warm coconut juice and ice cold coconut juice.
I love 100% juice. V8, OJ, Sambazon açaí, grape juice. Sadly, the OJ and grape juice has 25-39g sugar per serving. Yikes!
I’m not really a fan of pulp or of paying $4/glass for fresh squeezed so does anyone have any other off the shelf suggestions?
It’s not what you are asking, but I would suggest eating fruit instead of drinking it. By eating, the sugars are digested (because of the fiber) in a perfect time-release fashion…almost as if God intended (if you believe that sort of thing). Not so when you drink the juice. That’s my understanding.
Personally, I don’t drink juice anymore.
This. “Juice” is water and sugar, period. Where’s the benefit it cutting out most of the nutrition, increase energy density and glycemic load, and cost? Eat the whole fruit.
just watch your portion size and/or dilute it. You’ll get used to the diluted “less sugary” flavor and it will be plenty sweet.
The juice that you get from actually biting into the fruit. Otherwise its just flavored water and sugar.
I switched from orange juice to coconut juice. It has to be cold otherwise it’s pretty awful, but it’s half the amount of sugar as orange juice.
I made a similar switch a while back. It isn’t the cheapest habit, but I’m drink probably 4-5L of coconut water a week (.5-1L a day but not every day). It usually comes out to about 200 calories per L, per the packaging, which is so much lower then juice and is high in potassium which is good because I HATE bananas. 800-1000 calories is easy to burn off and I know my electrolyte levels are plenty high.
If I drink juice, I mix it with sparkling water and call it “soda”. Soda stream was one of the better $60 I have spent on nutrition.
Sometimes I’ll get crazy and make a virgin mimosa.
Mix it with water. Works fine.
I juice with my vitamix and as noted before, might add seltzer for some bubbles.
I understand your aversion to pulp, but if you stick to juicier types of fruit, you can make some pretty awesome stuff (including concord /vitis lambrusca grapes). You do risk oxidation unless you add a few Vit C tablets, but it rocks.
Once you pay off the vitamix, you’ll end up saving money too 
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eat fruit, drink water if you’re looking for health. I’ll drink grape juice by the quart, already have a endocrinologist on speed dial
cranberry juice - the pure cranberry juice. You have to like tart, though
Agreed. The sugar in fruit is fructose which on its own, is bad for your liver and your overall health. Fiber counteracts the fructose (think of it as the antidote to the poison). Also, in most juices you’re getting amounts equivalent to many pieces of fruit. It can be the equivalent of eating 5-10 oranges in one sitting, without the fiber benefit.
I don’t own a Vitamix but I believe it just liquefies the fiber rather than throwing it out. If that’s the case, it’s probably a good alternative to just eating the fruit.