Re:Juicero Plans to Lower Prices and Cut 25% of Staff
by deegles on Friday July 14, 2017 @02:08PM
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I mean, if pressed juice actually lived up to its health claims I might consider Juicero more seriously.
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Re:Juicero Plans to Lower Prices and Cut 25% of Staff
by _jtrig on Friday July 14, 2017 @02:18PM
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Eating whole fruit is unbelievably more healthy, cheaper, and simple than the convoluted process this product serves.
The time spent setting up this machine, throwing away the bags, electricity used, resources used, etc VS peeling an orange seems comical and sad.
Re:Juicero Plans to Lower Prices and Cut 25% of Staff
by jandrese on Friday July 14, 2017 @02:32PM
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To be fair, the founder was much more into stuff like kale juice and beet juice than orange juice. Stuff that isn't particularly nutritious when eaten raw and unprocessed.
Re:Juicero Plans to Lower Prices and Cut 25% of Staff
by ghostly_s on Friday July 14, 2017 @03:19PM
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You think the nutritional content of kale or beets increases when you juice them? Source?
Re:Juicero Plans to Lower Prices and Cut 25% of Staff
by jandrese on Friday July 14, 2017 @05:00PM
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Yes, because you're crushing up the cells and releasing the stuff our puny human guts can digest. Raw kale is mostly undigestible by humans unless you're willing to sit and chew on every leaf for a few minutes like a cow.
Unfortunately I'm having trouble finding the sources on this. All of this breathless superfood wankery is really polluting the search results.
http://healthyeating.sfgate.com/digestion-kale-11913.html
http://gi-north.com/kale-good-for-you-and-your-digestive-tra...
Re:Juicero Plans to Lower Prices and Cut 25% of Staff
by logfromblammo on Friday July 14, 2017 @03:27PM
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The effort to eat a bushel of kale dwarfs the effort to drink 1.5 juiced bushels of kale.
Re:Juicero Plans to Lower Prices and Cut 25% of Staff
by blacksmith_tb on Friday July 14, 2017 @03:50PM
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Perhaps, though steamed or fried it'd probably fit on a single plate... and then you'd get the fiber, too.