Speaker 1: Chances are if it's green, it's good for you.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: Green juices have been a favorite of influences and detox
Speaker 1: diets alike with some time now, and we are seeing
Speaker 1: more and more pre mixed green juices at our supermarkets,
Speaker 1: let alone our farmer's markets as well. But are they
Speaker 1: really a better juice nutritionally than regular fruit juice and
Speaker 1: should we actually spend the money to buy them? Hi,
Speaker 1: I'm Leanne Ward and I'm Sissy Burrow, and as two
Speaker 1: of Australia's leading dietitians who specialize in evidence based nutrition,
Speaker 1: we bring you the Nutrition Couch Product Review, a weekly
Speaker 1: chat on everything that you can find today in our
Speaker 1: super markets. So, Susie, green juices, where do you sit?
Speaker 1: Are you a fan?
Speaker 3: I love a green juice, now, I'm not a juice
Speaker 3: fan of juices in general. I am quite strict, having
Speaker 3: been a pediatric obesity dietitian.
Speaker 2: And knowing the growing evidence.
Speaker 3: Space to show that concentrated fruit juices are closely linked
Speaker 3: with weight game particularly in children, and not so great
Speaker 3: for our teeth. You know, I've never been a big
Speaker 3: fan of juices. I've been very, very strict with my
Speaker 3: children to not have them drink juice. I feel quite
Speaker 3: strongly about it, probably as strongly as I do with
Speaker 3: soft drink, but green juice is very different. I'm a
Speaker 3: big fan of veggie juices. I myself will often have
Speaker 3: a green juice when I'm out. I generally do pure
Speaker 3: green veggie juice, which can be a little bit bitter,
Speaker 3: but if you add lemon or lime, they're delicious. And
Speaker 3: my children, my children love beech of juice, they love
Speaker 3: green juice, so I'm a big, big fan. But of course,
Speaker 3: leanne they're quite expensive. You know, they're you know, five
Speaker 3: six seven dollars for a drink. Basically that's all vegetables,
Speaker 3: so or even if you want to make them at home,
Speaker 3: you know, by the time you buy all those ingredients
Speaker 3: plus the mess, it's a bit of a nightmare. So
Speaker 3: there has been a few that have come through the
Speaker 3: supermarkets which have come and gone because like everything, if
Speaker 3: it's not overly sweet, it doesn't tend to sell so well.
Speaker 3: And there's a couple that I am quite big fans of.
Speaker 3: So I thought it was an opportune time to talk
Speaker 3: about green juices, knowing that people are always looking for
Speaker 3: quick additions to their diet that can promote very quickly.
Speaker 3: So I've chosen again to products I've actually changed. This
Speaker 3: is the last minute because the two I had were
Speaker 3: pretty good, so I thought I need to sort of
Speaker 3: showcase where we can go wrong. So the first one
Speaker 3: I'm going to talk about is one called the Daily
Speaker 3: Juice Green Blend fold Eate, so they're already talking about
Speaker 3: some health benefits of it now. This is the one
Speaker 3: leader variety. It's available in both coals and will wear
Speaker 3: it retails. This one, I think was on sale this
Speaker 3: week for four dollars eighty for a liter, so a
Speaker 3: lot more cost effective than something you're paying more than
Speaker 3: that per serve. So per serve two hundred meals, so
Speaker 3: they're breaking that up into five serves. So it's coming
Speaker 3: in it just over a dollar or just sorry, under
Speaker 3: a dollar a serve. It's coming in very low calories,
Speaker 3: as you would expect a veggie juice and fruit juice
Speaker 3: to come in at at just over eighty calories per serve,
Speaker 3: very little protein, very little fat, as you would expect,
Speaker 3: nineteen point eight grams of carbohydrate per two hundred million
Speaker 3: and almost eighteen point six grams of sugars now we
Speaker 3: must say that these are not added sugars. These are
Speaker 3: what is coming natural from fruit. We know that in
Speaker 3: both fruit and vegetables there's naturally occurring sugars called fructose,
Speaker 3: which operate very very differently to added sugars in food.
Speaker 3: So it's not a juice that's coming with added sugars
Speaker 3: that's naturally occurring. Very small amount of fiber. Again, is
Speaker 3: a juice, very little amount of sodium. But what I
Speaker 3: wanted to showcase is when I take a very quick
Speaker 3: scan of the ingredient list, as I would absolutely with
Speaker 3: any vegetable juice, because that tells me exactly how much
Speaker 3: vegetable versus how much fruit is in the juice. So
Speaker 3: I look at the ingredients of this, and fruit juice
Speaker 3: is thirty one percent apple juice, twenty percent orange juice,
Speaker 3: one percent lime, pineapple juice, passion, fruit, mango paste, preservative,
Speaker 3: vitamin see color with added folate, which basically tells me
Speaker 3: leand that even though this is being marketed as a
Speaker 3: green juice, and indeed it is a tinge of.
Speaker 2: Green, it's a fruit juice. There's no vegetice a fruit juice.
Speaker 3: And I think that is really misleading because I think
Speaker 3: naturally we associate green with vegetable juices, and there's no
Speaker 3: vegetables in that, So I would put that in a
Speaker 3: complete fruit juice category. I wouldn't, and I'm a bit
Speaker 3: disappointed because I'm always looking for more veggie juice options
Speaker 3: in supermarket and I am dreadfully disappointed with this product.
Speaker 2: I wouldn't buy it. It sits in that fruit juice category.
Speaker 3: If I really was encouraging someone to have fruit juice,
Speaker 3: I would say, get a couple of oranges and juice
Speaker 3: them yourself at home. Then you're going to take the
Speaker 3: full freshness of the vitamin C in that juice. Indeed,
Speaker 3: I'm not looking to juice for my clients to get
Speaker 3: their fole eate. I'm looking for leafy green veggies. I'm
Speaker 3: looking for good quality cereal. I'm looking for other folet
Speaker 3: rich foods like natural whole fruits, but primarily veggies. So
Speaker 3: I'm really disappointed. To be honest, have you get in
Speaker 3: this product or used it before?
Speaker 1: No and daily juice coat. I am shocked and disappointed
Speaker 1: just reading the ingredient list, like fruit juice is a
Speaker 1: number one ingredient, reconstituted juice is the number between ingredient,
Speaker 1: then you've got some preservatives. It is all just fruit.
Speaker 1: And if you look at the label like a it's
Speaker 1: a juice that looks green, so you would assume that
Speaker 1: when it's called a green juice, it would have some
Speaker 1: sort of vegetables in there. This is completely misleading and
Speaker 1: the absolute definition of what we would call a health
Speaker 1: halo isn't it, Susie, Because even if you look at
Speaker 1: the label like it's Daily Juice, co is the brand,
Speaker 1: and then around it it's got pitches of fruit. So
Speaker 1: it's got an apple maybe what is a pitch a
Speaker 1: lime and a passion fruit, and then it's got these
Speaker 1: little beautiful green leaves around at Susy and to me,
Speaker 1: I don't know what do you think they are? Maybe
Speaker 1: mint leaves or originally I thought maybe it was kale
Speaker 1: or maybe it was spinach.
Speaker 2: But when you actually take a look at.
Speaker 1: The ingredient list, it is all just fruit. There is
Speaker 1: not one vegetable in there. So it's very disappointing. It's
Speaker 1: very misleading.
Speaker 2: I didn't notice that.
Speaker 1: You're right, Yeah, you look at the label and you
Speaker 1: think it looks like, I don't know, silver bee, so
Speaker 1: it looks like a bit of kale, or it looks
Speaker 1: like there's some sort of vegetable in there, but eighteen
Speaker 1: point six grams of sugar in that juice. And yes,
Speaker 1: people will say it's natural sugar, it's from fruit, it's
Speaker 1: got vitamins, et cetera, et cetera, But you're gonna get
Speaker 1: a lot more better from eating a whole whole piece
Speaker 1: of fruit or a whole couple of pieces of fruit
Speaker 1: than you would from getting this green juice, because basically
Speaker 1: you're just drinking basically twenty grams of sugar. There's no
Speaker 1: real nutritional no, you know, a little bit of nutritional benefit,
Speaker 1: but this is not a healthy product and not something
Speaker 1: that we would recommend, and zero vegetables, which is very disappointing.
Speaker 3: The only people I use juice with is sometimes, of course,
Speaker 3: working with athletes, bots dieticians will use them, or with
Speaker 3: teenagers who have really high energy demands. But again, I
Speaker 3: wouldn't be going out of my way to buy this
Speaker 3: one just because it's got fol eate, like you get
Speaker 3: folate anyway from your fresh fruits and vegetables. And if
Speaker 3: I was going to recommend someone had a juice, I'd
Speaker 3: just go for a one hundred percent orange juice anyway,
Speaker 3: I certainly wouldn't be buying one that had all this mix.
Speaker 3: Apple is the number one ingredients probably my biggest turn off.
Speaker 3: I'll never recommend concentrated apple juice over orange because it
Speaker 3: is really really high glycemic index and very high specific
Speaker 3: sugar content. It's very sweet, which is why kids tend
Speaker 3: to like it. But if you do choose to include
Speaker 3: fruit juice in your diet, it's certainly not the juice
Speaker 3: I would ever recommend. I'd go for orange every time
Speaker 3: over apple. But yeah, so I was really a bit
Speaker 3: sad because it's masquerading is something it's absolutely not. I agree,
Speaker 3: having that leaf on the front is highly misleading. So
Speaker 3: you know, very and I guess the other reference leanne
Speaker 3: is Vegetable juices are quite expensive to make for companies
Speaker 3: because if you think about the greens that make a
Speaker 3: good green juice, things like kale and spinach, they're quite
Speaker 3: expensive product, whereas apples and things are a dimerd does
Speaker 3: and a lot cheaper to produce. So that's the other
Speaker 3: reason food companies won't always automatically go to veggies. One,
Speaker 3: it's hard to get it tasting sweet, enough to sell
Speaker 3: at a mass level, but it's just more expensive to produce,
Speaker 3: so that can be a real barrier too. But yeah,
Speaker 3: so that's a good example of something to stay well
Speaker 3: clear of. And we get a big thumbs down from
Speaker 3: the Nutrition Couch. But I've got good news because there's
Speaker 3: actually a couple of quite good ones. And I will
Speaker 3: mention the other good green one that I like because
Speaker 3: I know it's nice to go and have options, even
Speaker 3: though we tend to just review to here. So the
Speaker 3: one I've chosen today is one of my favorites. Actually,
Speaker 3: it's the cold Pressed Impressed range of juice.
Speaker 2: It's Impressed Easy Greens Juice. Again. It's available at both
Speaker 2: Coals and Woolworths.
Speaker 3: This again is a one liter bottle and it was
Speaker 3: selling four five dollars fifty. If I have a look
Speaker 3: at the nutritionals per two to fifty mils, not dissimilar,
Speaker 3: just over eighty calories per served, just over a gram
Speaker 3: of protein, similar amount of sugars, nineteen point three grams
Speaker 3: of carbohydrate, seventeen grams of sugars. Butt Ley and straight away.
Speaker 3: When we look at the ingredient list, it's a very
Speaker 3: different story. It's thirty four percent cucumber. It still has
Speaker 3: quite a high apple content thirty two pineapple eighteen Granny
Speaker 3: Smith apple eight five percent celery, three percent koor, one
Speaker 3: percent spinach. So yes, it still does have some fruit
Speaker 3: through it, which they do, as I said, commercially to
Speaker 3: make it sweeter, because a pure veggie juice won't sell.
Speaker 3: Now you can buy a pure green veggie juice at
Speaker 3: Top Juice, for example, and it's a distinct flavor. So
Speaker 3: I can see what they're doing here by using the apple.
Speaker 3: As I said, it won't sell if they don't put
Speaker 3: some in. Yes, it would be ideal to have a
Speaker 3: higher proportion, but this is coming in how much percent
Speaker 3: veggie overall?
Speaker 2: About forty two forty.
Speaker 3: Four percent vegetable overall, so nutritionally much much better choice. Yes,
Speaker 3: relatively high in concentrated sugars. Yes, you're better to make
Speaker 3: your own of one hundred percent veggie, don't get me wrong,
Speaker 3: or using beechtroot, selery, carrot kale and.
Speaker 2: Then one apple one hundred percent.
Speaker 3: But this is one of my favorites from a store
Speaker 3: bought perspective, simply because you're actually getting some vegetable through it. Yes,
Speaker 3: it's quite high and concentrated sugars. I'd probably do a
Speaker 3: two hundred meal served once a day if you're looking
Speaker 3: to add a concentrated source of nutrients. This would be
Speaker 3: one of my top picks for a green juice in
Speaker 3: the supermarket, and for one that actually tastes quite nice,
Speaker 3: because that's the other thing. Doesn't matter how good it
Speaker 3: is nutritionally, if it doesn't taste good.
Speaker 2: So have you tried this one? What do you think?
Speaker 1: Yeah? I have, and I'm definitely a fan as well.
Speaker 1: And when you look at the sugar content per serving,
Speaker 1: I think both serves are two hundred meals. The daily
Speaker 1: juice one had eighteen point six grams and this one
Speaker 1: has seventeen point nine grams, so it's still a really
Speaker 1: high sugar content. But even if you're using it because
Speaker 1: you're malnourished and you need to gain weight, or you
Speaker 1: have super high energy requirements so you just want to
Speaker 1: get a couple of veggies into your kids, at least
Speaker 1: you're getting the additional benefits of a time, probably bit
Speaker 1: more fiber and the extra nutrient you know benefits as well.
Speaker 1: And even when you just look at the two photos
Speaker 1: of the juice, is Susie you can tell that this
Speaker 1: is so much more of a better quality product. Look,
Speaker 1: you look at the greens, and the greens look really
Speaker 1: really dense where it's the photo. On the other the
Speaker 1: daily juice one, it's like a light. It almost looks
Speaker 1: like green cordial, like you can completely see through it.
Speaker 1: It's basically it'd be what you call a clear blowd
Speaker 1: in hospital, basically like there's nothing in there but basically
Speaker 1: simple sugars which are really really quick digesting. This one
Speaker 1: at least has a bit of nutrients, and it's a
Speaker 1: little bit more nutrient dance. You can't actually see through
Speaker 1: the juice, which to me tells me that it's more
Speaker 1: nutrient danser. It's got a lot more vegetable bulk there.
Speaker 1: So I agree, particularly for some of our bussy eaters
Speaker 1: who don't get a lot of greens, this is probably
Speaker 1: a good option. And I do really love the fact
Speaker 1: that it actually has some vegetables in there versus the
Speaker 1: other one, which you know, was very misleading from marketing perspective.
Speaker 1: I still can't get over that, Susie. I'm suok.
Speaker 3: That's why I swapped it, because I actually I just
Speaker 3: mentioned before we finish the other green one I like,
Speaker 3: which is the V eight Power Blend Healthy Greens, because
Speaker 3: this one is a long life juice, you won't find
Speaker 3: it in the fresh section, but it has got more
Speaker 3: than sixty percent veggie, so it's a yellow carrot, apple,
Speaker 3: sweet potato and green veggie base. So that's one of
Speaker 3: the highest proportions of vegguice in supermarket, sixteen point four
Speaker 3: grams of sugar, so it is slightly lower because of
Speaker 3: that higher veggie content, and it's a very strong product
Speaker 3: nutritionally as well. So if you are looking for a
Speaker 3: green juice, that's a five star health rating on that one.
Speaker 3: They're my two picks. It's the Impressed Fresh Green Juice,
Speaker 3: or if you don't mind a longer life juice that
Speaker 3: you find where.
Speaker 2: The poppers are hot, it.
Speaker 3: Is the Healthy Greens, the V eight Power Blend, and
Speaker 3: I like their beechtreet juice too. So there is a
Speaker 3: few options in supermarket, and if you do want a
Speaker 3: green juice like that, we do have to buy and
Speaker 3: support them because they don't survive if there's no consumer
Speaker 3: demand for them. So certainly, if you like a green juice,
Speaker 3: there are our picks of the bunch to tick the
Speaker 3: box and the healthy greens that they're advertising, And just.
Speaker 1: Quickly a tip for our listeners at home. I love
Speaker 1: getting like a green juice on a hot summer's day
Speaker 1: if I'm out at my local cafe or at a
Speaker 1: farmer's markets or something. But the big thing I find
Speaker 1: susie is just the added sugar in there. Like they'll
Speaker 1: make it on a bait of either apple juice or
Speaker 1: coconut water. So my top tip is, whenever you go
Speaker 1: and auto a green juice, just ask for it to
Speaker 1: be made on cold water. They'll always add fruit in
Speaker 1: there to add the natural sweetness to their but you
Speaker 1: just double downing on the amount of sugar when you're
Speaker 1: getting it on a base of apple juice or as
Speaker 1: I said, coconut water. So if you ask them to
Speaker 1: make it on a base of just plain cold water,
Speaker 1: you're getting a lot more of a nutritious product, and
Speaker 1: then they can add, you know, the celery in there,
Speaker 1: the apple, the spinach, kale, whatever it might be. But
Speaker 1: I think just watch the base that your juice is
Speaker 1: made on, and that's the same deal. If you're someone
Speaker 1: who loves a cye balls. I don't know if we've
Speaker 1: ever talked about them. We should do a whole podcast
Speaker 1: on them, Susia, I think, but what's the base at
Speaker 1: which those drinks are made on, because it can really
Speaker 1: add extra ton of sugar into your juice.
Speaker 3: And the other tip I have is my other favorite
Speaker 3: one is slim Green from Top Juice, but I ask
Speaker 3: it to be blended with ice, and that's a delicious
Speaker 3: one too, And it's really low calorie and quite delicious,
Speaker 3: and it's.
Speaker 2: A good one to get the kids on when they're small.
Speaker 3: If you're giving them a drink when they're out, stick
Speaker 3: clear of the sugar boost juices and smoothies and instead
Speaker 3: get them a small veggie juice ended with ice and
Speaker 3: get them onto a more tart flavor rather than sweet juices.
Speaker 2: And there'll be veggie juice converts for their life.
Speaker 3: So that's a really good trick for young kids if
Speaker 3: you're buying them juices and stuff when you're out at
Speaker 3: the shopping center.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they won't like you now, but they'll thank you
Speaker 1: when they're twenty.
Speaker 3: My kids love it Leanne green. We get a green
Speaker 3: and a red juice. They've loved it from when they're little.
Speaker 3: They love it. They fight with their father over it,
Speaker 3: so it really can be really good for them and
Speaker 3: a good way actually for kids if you're worried about
Speaker 3: their veggie intake. Not as good of course as fresh
Speaker 3: veggie cooked and things, but a good way to get
Speaker 3: a concentrated range of vegetable nutrients. If they enjoy a
Speaker 3: beet troot based or a green based.
Speaker 1: Juice, yeah's still beneficial.
Speaker 2: All right.
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