Why your juice fast might be more of a smoothie fast... and not as effective

[oraham]

For those just starting out on a juice fast - or even if you are well into one - it's important to know that your juicer may not be delivering only juice.

Try straining your juice into a glass, and, depending on your juicer, you might be amazed at how much pulp gets through.

If you are juicing for health (not fasting), that's probably a plus.

But if you are juicing as part of a cleansing fast to achieve weight loss or other health benefits, you don't want that pulp. It is simply going to draw your body's energies away from cleansing and healing to deal with the digestion of that extraneous material.

I've got a mid-line Breville that I meticulously clean (sometimes more than once during a juicing!), and the straining is a necessity.

I'm on my 59th day, down 45 pounds, and 90% relieved of a chronic auto-immune condition affecting chiefly my hands and feet. I'm no expert, but I do have a bit of experience.

Hope this helps!

[Aleesha Sattva]

Some juicers do put more pulp than others into the juice. I find that, for the most part, straining isn't necessary with my Greenstar or my Champion.

Congrats on your juice fast!!!

And welcome to the forum!

[climbing]

I was actually thinking of this during my last fast. I noticed that whenever I made my vegetable juices (as opposed to fruit, for whatever reason), I was having bowel movements the next day. Then I figured out that the celery tends to make a lot of fiber in the juice, despite how much fiber is taken out. So I'm going to actually use this to step into the process of fasting, on the first day leaving the fiber that comes through in, and then slowly straining the juice until it's completely liquid, and then leaving it in again at the end of the fast.

[sport]

I am just drinking my breakfast green juice which I carefully strained. I always strain my juice. Juicing works on the basis that it does not need digesting and is absorbed more easily.
I am not on a fast but I think that I will absorb it better if it is strained.
The residue left in the strainer I have put in to the vitamix to add to the smoothie that i will make when I finish the juice.
I also added water to the pulp and juiced it again and this is the water that I will use in my smoothie. That way I am getting the maximum nutrients for my money.