juice health and juicers

[Tyrannosaurus]

Someone just gave me a juicer. I used it, and the waste product was an abundance of dry flaky bits. I had juiced carrots and apples

I heard that most of the insoluble fiber in fruit is in the peel, and i'm guessing that lots of these leftover particles are the peel.

I know juice is still healthy, but i'm wondering how much more healthy it would be to just eat the carrots and apples. Is the pulp highly concentrated with healthy stuff like fiber, or is that not the case?

I know it would probably be healthier to eat them, but it's so much faster and tastier to just drink them. I'm just asking how much nutrition you lose by juicing them.

[PLOlover]

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I'm just asking how much nutrition you lose by juicing them.

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I don't juice but I've heard the reason people juice is because they can drink the juice from 5lb of carrots but they can't eat 5lb of carrots, I think it was stated or implied that the juice has most if not all of the nutrients.

[maniacut]

you could add water to the juice which should help in pouring out the missed bits you are seeing. how much nutrition is in those little bits? no idea.

[Jay.]

juicing is great. just get enough fibre from other parts of your diet.