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Cold-pressed juices and their comparison with regular meal

Hello everyone. Yesterday, I read a gourmet magazine that usually deals with local gastronomy and small businesses (central Europe). I stumbled upon an article talking about a cold-pressed juice spot that will soon open nearby and the article said how a 400ml cold-pressed vegetable and fruit juice can replace a whole meal like lunch. For the record, I am not a nutritionist and I would like to have this explained, because I think a statement like that is blatantly misleading. How can a cold-pressed juice be considered as a lunch replacement?? I don’t think it even begins to cover the calorie intake/macros that a person should eat. I know that some people go easy on lunch and have a bigger dinner, I hope you see that’s not the point I would like to make, I am genuinely asking about the comparison between a 400ml of juice and a proper meal. Thank you!

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That really depends on what is in the juice nutritionally there is no difference between a apple blended or whole however if they are juicing it it will lose fiber and be worse for you and likely end up a sugar bomb that will just leave you hungry however if it is just blended fruits and vegetables it would be a healthy lunch although you might want to add some protein and fat to it like greek yogurt or nuts to make it more satiating

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Yeah I agree. Sure it can replace a meal. Like an almond can. But it’s not a healthy meal replacement. In fact, a smoothie would be healthier than a cold pressed juice because it would at least have the fiber still in it. A juice is a juice. Cold pressed is certainly better than store bought processed juice in terms of lower sugar and higher nutrients in the cold pressed, but it’s still a juice Ffs.

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First juices are less healthy than smoothies because they lack fiber and could have fewer vitamins depending on what’s juiced. Also, in addition to fruits and vegetables a balanced diet is easiest to achieve with a bit of oil, a little bit of meat, and a little bit of dairy added. I doubt you want to add much of that to a smoothie, but given you’re just talking about lunch I could see a smoothy being a decent lunch.

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