I enjoy juicing, and I often like to replace at least one meal per day with a glass of juice. For example one of my favorite juices is a lb of carrots and 1 large apple.
- So the first thing you would do is to list the ingredients you plan to use in your juice.
16 oz of carrots
1 large apple
- Make note of the calories and fiber grams for each item:
Apple (large) has 120 calories and 5.5 fiber grams.
* This is if you are using a juice extractor. Juice extractors pull out the fiber-filled pulp. A citrus juicer does not remove the pulp.
- Now multiply the fiber grams by 4
- Why? Because each gram of fiber has 4 calories in it.
Apple 5.5 x 4 = 22
- Now you subtract the above numbers from the total calorie count.
Carrots 186 - 80.8 = 105 (rounded off)
Apple 120 - 22 = 98
- Now if I add these two together, it will tell me how many calories are in my freshly squeezed juice.
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