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Juicing for Type 1

sabinuk

sabinuk

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Hello everyone! I'm type 1 and wanting to try juicing for better health, but finding challenging to keep sugars under control with certain fruits and veggies combinations. Is there anybody trying this? I would like to know best recipes for type 1 and how frequent is good to have it. Thank you!ImageUploadedByDCUK Forum1403858138.460293.jpg


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My personal advice would be to only have juices occasionally and then veg rather than fruit. Juices are not as healthy as the actual fruit and veg and the cells are broken down and the juice becomes high-GI with less fibre. Non-root veg would probably be best? As a T1 of course you can adjust your insulin if needed.
 
Understandably you'll find it hard to keep bg under control as fruit juice is often given as a hypo treatment, meaning it raises bg fast. Your breaking down all the fibre by juicing that would otherwise slow down the absorption of the fruit & veg, better not to juice and just eat them as you normally would.
 
Thank you so much for your advice, you all are very helpful confirming my experience on juicing. I will definitely go for the green juices and go for eating the fruits. Anyways, I will keep the juicer for more options for my kids and husband.


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Hi I'm new to this forum and I saw this post, I love juicing. And this forum has helped me with the advice. For now, I think I need to go for green smoothies. Thank you.
 
If you really do want fruit versions, blending everything into a smoothie is much better than juicing as more of the fibre is retained.

However, I don't believe that juicing has any health benefits over simply adding lots of fresh vegetables to every meal.
 
MarchHare said:
If you really do want fruit versions, blending everything into a smoothie is much better than juicing as more of the fibre is retained.

However, I don't believe that juicing has any health benefits over simply adding lots of fresh vegetables to every meal.
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I agree with you, providing that all those added fruits/vegetables are raw and very well chewed (which can be difficult with some raw vegetables... But better yet, use a good blender.

A good blender will actually break down the cell walls to allow full digestion of the nutrients. A cheap blender (or teeth) basically finely chop the ingredients and leave some nutrition inaccessible, particularly for people with weak digestions.
 
I have a Vitamix. I use it mainly for soup now. As I don't eat much fruit. Fling some veg and stock in ( all cold) and run it for a few minutes and as if by magic hot soup. It also tastes less cooked and healthier?
 
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