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**sauppyshurb** · 08-07-2009, 09:33 PM

V-8 contains carrots which are not on the vegetable list for us. Another high carb veggie in the juice is beets. 1/4 cup of beets has 4.7 net grams of carb. The same volume of cucumber has 1.0ng. Besides, a 12 oz bottle of V-8 is only "equal" to 3 veggie servings... hardly optimum nutrition. AND, like Bat said, you'll miss the fiber and fullness you'd get from eating whole vegetables...

One more thing to consider... the effect this will have on your insulin output. If you were to drink 12 oz of V-8 you'd be getting almost all of your veggie carbs in one easily digestable serving. Without the bulk of actual veggies, your body is going to respond to it like you had just swallowed 1/2 cup of apple juice, or 1/3 cup of regular coca cola (same carb/sugars as 12 oz V-8). Nutritionally, they're not the same, but your body will respond to these drinks the same... to your digestive system, they're almost identical. We should spread our carbs out over the course of the day... even if you don't drink your vegetables in the form of juice.

08-07-2009, 09:33 PM	#3
sauppyshurb Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 451 Senior Member	V-8 contains carrots which are not on the vegetable list for us. Another high carb veggie in the juice is beets. 1/4 cup of beets has 4.7 net grams of carb. The same volume of cucumber has 1.0ng. Besides, a 12 oz bottle of V-8 is only "equal" to 3 veggie servings... hardly optimum nutrition. AND, like Bat said, you'll miss the fiber and fullness you'd get from eating whole vegetables... One more thing to consider... the effect this will have on your insulin output. If you were to drink 12 oz of V-8 you'd be getting almost all of your veggie carbs in one easily digestable serving. Without the bulk of actual veggies, your body is going to respond to it like you had just swallowed 1/2 cup of apple juice, or 1/3 cup of regular coca cola (same carb/sugars as 12 oz V-8). Nutritionally, they're not the same, but your body will respond to these drinks the same... to your digestive system, they're almost identical. We should spread our carbs out over the course of the day... even if you don't drink your vegetables in the form of juice.
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