7 great ways to use leftover juice pulp in your diet plan.
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If you're not going to use your pulp right away, it'll keep well in a sealed container in the fridge for about 24 hours. You can also freeze it in bags, though the colour and texture may change slightly when you thaw it.
Simply mix the pulp with ground flax seeds and spices and dehydrate until crackers are crunchy and dry. Soups/Stews – Pulp is great to add to soups and stews as a thickening agent and to give your meal extra fibre. The best options are carrots, celery, parsley, kale or spinach, zucchini, and sweet potatoes.
Use the leftover pulp from making jelly to make and preserve a sweet jam. This recipe can be used on any fruit that you have excess pulp from.
Insoluble fiber, however, is lost in the juicing process. Excessive intake of juice may cause weight gain and be dangerous for people with diabetes because juice is a concentrated source of calories and sugar. Juices don't have protein, which keeps us full and helps maintain muscle mass for a healthy weight.
When you're taking a period of time to consume only juice, and no solid food (or what I call a Reboot), you can always freeze the pulp and use it when you integrate other types of meals back into your diet. Start experimenting with your pulp and visit Reboot Your Life for recipes.
The answer is technically yes: if I were using a Norwalk juicer, there'd be nothing left but fiber. But most centrifugal juicers are imperfect enough to leave some nutrient content in the pulp. And this aside, it's pretty yummy, and not worth wasting.
So even if you want some fresh juice, drink it right away as antioxidants and enzyme activity decreases over time. In order to minimize the loss of fibre, you must retain some of the pulp. You can use a food processor or a blender, instead of a juicer to as this ensures the fiber-rich pulp remains in the juice.
When juicing, the machine extracts the juice (this is the water and most of the nutrients the produce contains), leaving behind the pulp. When blending, there is no left-over pulp. Blenders pulverize the whole produce to make a smoothie.
Push the pulp down with a rubber spatula to squeeze out the juice. Hold the strainer sturdy with your nondominant hand so it doesn't fall out. Press down on any pulp or fibers leftover inside the strainer with the back of a rubber spatula, and let the juice drain into the bowl or pitcher.
8. If you don't have time to use the pulp immediately, you can place it in resealable bags and freeze it until you are ready. While some of the nutritional value may be lost when freezing, most of the fiber will remain.
As pointed out by Elizabeth Royte for Modern Farmer, juicing creates tons of perfectly edible food waste. In fact, a single 16-ounce serving of cold-pressed juice generates, on average, 4.5 pounds of pulp waste.
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