10 fruit and veg a day...but juicing doesn't count!!!

Qualified dieticians now tell us having your 5 a day isn't enough...it has to be 10! But forget counting on juicing! 

This study into the benefits of chomping your way through 10 portions of fruit and veg involved  2 million people. The conclusions were that increasing from 5 to 10 portions a day, vastly increases life expectancy. So far so good... avid juicers have been saying that for years!

For most people 5 fruit and veg a day is often a struggle (particularly if they eat fast food and ready meals)  10... is an impossibility.   So it seems obvious that juicing is an easy and delicious solution.

But for some reason that I really can't work out, according to the 'experts' a freshly extracted juice can only be counted as one portion because of the lack of fibre!

So yet again, 'experts' are giving us confusing information! The nutrients contained in fruits and veg are beneficial to health, yet it's good for you but only with the fibre...Why? 

Juices still contain soluble fibre. And the insoluble fibre you lose when juicing is indigestible and only used by the body to push the poop out, actually the insoluble fibre works the same way...(Ok enough information!) 

So...as we don't digest the fibre it seems common sense that it isn't where we get our nutrition from.  If it was then why bother with fruit and veg, just munch your way through 10 bowls of bran flakes!

So I'm counting all the fruit and veg in my juices as well as my meals.

My fruit and veg count for today... 

breakfast: pineapple, mango, banana 

lunch:  spinach, lettuce, mixed salad leaves, avocado,                        olives, tomatoes

dinner: chiles,onions, red peppers,sugar snap peas,ginger

This was my delicious blended breakfast juice:
mango, pineapple, banana and coconut water...
delicious!

Juicing just makes having your 10 and eating them soooo easy!