Will freezing juice kill it?

[Kindred]

Juice is great but i work 10 hours a day 5 days a week its difficult to get my juice fix at work and im not really sure about putting it in a thermos. I have read that you have about 2 hours before it starts to lose stuff like vitamins etc... does anyone have any thoughts?

[Aleesha Sattva]

i used to freeze my juice all the time... and i gained a great deal of health while fasting. so ... from my experience ... i say go ahead and freeze it.

i have stopped freezing my juices only because my body no longer resonates with frozen/thawed juice. it gives me a tummy ache. but... it could have simply been the type of juice i was freezing and then consuming as i noticed during my 209 day recently that some of the juices i had consumed in the past no longer resonated with my body so i had to change up what i was making.

long story short... IF you have a juicer that is a centrifugal... you need to consume that right away without freezing. but if you have a masticating, twin gear, single gear etc type of juicer (higher quality juice) then you can go ahead and freeze it.

but if you do have a centrifugal and it's frozen juice or nothing... i'd definitely go for frozen!

[Aleesha Sattva]

oh and if you don't have a centrifugal juicer... you can totally put it in a thermos. i put mine in mason jars and pop that into my little personal cooler and take them with me. just keep them cool by adding some ice to them!

[Kindred]

OMG i didnt even think that it would be the same as frozen vegetables and they have been doing that for ages and they are well tested... facepalm!

[Revvell]

Freezing kills stuff. No question yet, it's better than not having juice at all. People have been drinking "from frozen concentrate" for quite some time.

Question is, how long you planning on freezing it? Even frozen, it's only good for a few days. I'd use a thermos and drink it the same day.

Why not just blend your foods? They'll last longer ~ up to 3 days AND, you get the fiber!

[proteus]

Freezing kills stuff. No question yet, it's better than not having juice at all. People have been drinking "from frozen concentrate" for quite some time.

Question is, how long you planning on freezing it? Even frozen, it's only good for a few days. I'd use a thermos and drink it the same day.

Why not just blend your foods? They'll last longer ~ up to 3 days AND, you get the fiber!

freezing is rather mild. freezing doesn't kill bacteria for example, but deep freezing kills most parasites. so i would say freezing can potentially do some damage to the nutrition but probably not more than 1/10th of what cooking does.

i don't freeze anything myself but i buy frozen stuff all the time.

[Revvell]

Well, freezing kills body parts that are pumping blood to them so, I'm figuring, it'll kill pretty much anything. And, in order to maintain freshness, especially produce, manufacturers add stuff we don't know about to give it shelf life. Freeze a banana and see how long you can keep it. Then get some frozen fruit from the grocery store and see how long that lasts. Quite a bit longer than your banana. Personally, I don't freeze juice yet, I'm thinking for a few days, better than whatever one would get in the store.

[proteus]

Freeze a banana and see how long you can keep it. Then get some frozen fruit from the grocery store and see how long that lasts. Quite a bit longer than your banana. Personally, I don't freeze juice yet, I'm thinking for a few days, better than whatever one would get in the store.

there are different ways of freezing with different results. slow freezing like what you would accomplish at home produces large ice crystals which cause a lot of structural damage to the product. faster freezing produces smaller ice crystals ( crystals need time to grow ) with the product remaining relatively more intact.

even between my old fridge and my new fridge there is a big difference in freezer temperature. my new fridge has 2 degrees F in the freezer and the old one has like 20 degrees F. but air circulation is probably more important. in the new freezer the air is circulated by a tiny fan while in the old one the air doesn't circulate at all.

i bet when they freeze them industrially they probably blow cold air over them with some huge fan and freeze them in 1/5th the time.

there is no need to add any chemicals to frozen food because the freezing itself will make it keep forever ( as long as you don't defrost it ). such chemicals are much more likely to be added to non-frozen food. that's why i buy frozen.

i remember once watching discovery channel or something where they dug out some remains of a 100+ year old expedition in Antarctica from the ice and there were some cookies there. the cookies were still good to eat. no special chemicals, just cold.

some primitive organisms can also survive being completely frozen. most organisms get killed by freezing of course.

still, in my view freezing is far and away the best method of preserving food. fresh food is of course better.

[Aleesha Sattva]

i have a wonderful freezer. it has a quick freeze function. it goes to -19 degrees celcius.