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Julieanna Hever - Ask a Dietitian

This event was on Thursday, December 14, 2017 at 11:00 am Pacific, 2:00 pm Eastern

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Question:

Would i get the same nutrition value jucing greens as i would trying to eat nearly the same amount ?

— mike janeta

Answer:

So there's the difference between juicing blending. And and chewing okay. Let's talk about those. There's kind of like a spectrum. So if you want to get the most phytonutrients out of your food juice them, you know juicing those screens you're gonna get a lot you'll notice you go through how many greens to get into a cup of green juice right a lot. So you're getting all of that phyto nutrition all the vitamins and minerals all the antioxidants really concentrated, but you'll start moving all that fiber the second one would be blending. So you're still containing that the find all the fine everything is contained in that blender because you're consuming all of it. So you're getting all of the fiber you're getting all of the fight on nutrients all the antioxidants all the vitamins and all the minerals now when you're chewing You're not really getting you're not able to you know, masticate all and chewing hard enough to liberate. All of the nutrients that are in the leafy greens because you have to break down that cell wall. All of those nutrients are you know? Trapped by the cell wall, which is why we have to choo choo choo, or we have to blend blend Blend or we have to juice to get to extract all of them out now is that you know, does that mean we have to juice everything to eat it? Absolutely not because there's some benefit there's definitely lots of benefits to chewing but you can't get the same amount as you would in in the juice that said, you know, enjoy a wide variety of all of them the other way to get more greens in is cooking them. But again, if you do if you cook the greens, you're gonna get some of the nutrients are gonna leach into the cooking water. So make sure you drink the cooking water. You could actually just drink it or you could just add it to if it's in a soup, you know, you're still gonna get those nutrients that are contained but you are gonna get some of this leaching coming out of there. So no you can't get the same but it's all relative. If you're getting at least three servings a day. I would say do it all I just like to say have it all try it all experiment wide variety. Enjoy your greens. However, you do. Just enjoy your greens.
Julieanna Hever

Julieanna Hever

Plant-Based Dietitian