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Re:Juicero Plans to Lower Prices and Cut 25% of Staff by _jtrig on Friday July 14, 2017 @02:18PM (#14772020)
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 (#14772136)
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 (#14772435)
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 (#14773136)
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 (#14772482)
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 (#14772649)
Perhaps, though steamed or fried it'd probably fit on a single plate... and then you'd get the fiber, too.
Re:Juicero Plans to Lower Prices and Cut 25% of Staff by jandrese on Friday July 14, 2017 @05:00PM (#14773142)
Supposedly cooking kale will destroy most of its nutritional value.