Amber Tries: 2 day juice cleanse Day 2
This cleanse has made me wish my weekend were over sooner. Thank god I wasn't stupid or crazy enough to commit to a 3 day cleanse, so at least my Sunday can be salvaged.
Having started on such a positive, up beat note, let's review today's range of drinks, shall we?
If you have just come into this juice cleansing experience, catch up on what happened yesterday here. I was a lot more upbeat when real food wasn't such a distant memory.
And as promised, I have made a video where you can see my first impressions of the juices. You can find it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SNeHTc4KiA
JUMPING STRAIGHT TO PART III: AMBER TRIES
In true juice cleanser expert fashion, the first juice of the day is a 'tonic'.
Ingredients: alkaline water, strawberry, lemon, ginger, bentonite clay
Nutritional Information: 13 cal for 470ml; 0.4g protein; 1.3g fat; 4.4g sugar
General Information: Just like the Pink Lemonade, if you dig deeply enough on the Pressed Juices website, you will find this warning: 'Caution: Take 2 hours away from medication & supplements due to the magnetic attraction of the clay.' This time, the charcoal is what does the magnetic pulling upon toxins. Apparently charcoal is to toxins what Justin Bieber was to 13 year olds a few years ago.
Amber's Comments: this one tastes just like lemon water. And by that I mean, the water you can get from squeezing a lemon into a glass of water, that will cost you maybe 50c. However, you can the charcoal bits in the drink and your tongue does get painted black. So that's fun, I guess. On the upside, this drink is incredibly low in calories and sugar.
Score (taste): 3
Score (over all): 4
The second drink is, once again, the most sugary. I choose to take it before hitting the gym so that I actually have some energy.
Ingredients: cloudy apple juice (57%), carrot juice (40%) and ginger juice 3%
Nutritional Information: 14 cal for 350ml; 1.5g protein; 0.4g fat; 26.6g sugar
General Information: as far as vegetable and fruit juices go, this one isn't so bad - at least it's almost a half-half split between vegetables and fruit.
Amber's Comments: this is the best tasting of the juices I have tried over the two days. This is another one where you can taste every single ingredient, and I particularly enjoy the ginger kick. What tastes good inevitably is bad for you: at 7.6% sugar, this isn't something you want to make a habit of.
Score (taste): 5
Score (over all): 2
The third juice is the protein-heavy post-work out shake.
Ingredients: almond mylk, hazelnut butter, raw protein, white chia, wattle seed, vanilla bean.
Nutritional Information: 578 cal for 470ml; 28.7g protein; 48.1g fat; 4.6g sugar
General Information: here's a description of the drink on the Pressed Juices website: "A vanilla almond base with notes of white chocolate and hazelnut, enhanced by the rich, roasted coffee flavour and aroma of native wattle seed. Packed with nearly 30g of protein from almond mylk, hazelnut butter and raw protein powder, the Vanilla Protein Shake an excellent source of essential fatty acids, including omega 3 from chia seeds."
Amber's Comments: all the ingredients and the description makes this calories-packed drink sound delicious, right? Wrong. It is hands down the most disgusting thing I have ever tasted in these two days, beating even the sad curry-like Golden Mylkshake. What the ingredients don't suggest to you is that this shit is salty and sour. As if it had gone off. I am, however, quite impressed by how much protein is in a bottle, and the low sugar content.
Score (taste): 0
Score (over all): 2
The next two juices are the same as what I had yesterday, so I'm going to do a copy and paste.
Ingredients: 64.3% fruit juice (pear, apple, lemon) and 34.5% vegetable juice (cucumber, celery spinach, kale, spirulina), ascorbic acid
Nutritional Information: 86 cal for 300ml; 2.2g protein; <1g fat; 16.6g sugar
General Information: having a low caloric profile, this green and mean juice is moderately high in sugar at about 5.5%. It boasts some fashionable ingredients, particularly spirulina, which is something of a super food. The quality of protein in spirulina is comparable to eggs (but you put so little spirulina in anything that involves spirulina that this is basically a moot point), it contains all the essential amino acids that we need. Though there have been claims that spirulina contains vitamin B12, the truth is that it contains pseudovitamin B12 which is ineffective in humans.
Amber's Comments: It has quite a clean, green taste. My gripe with it is that the percentage of ingredients that are healthy and attractive is very low, yet prominently advertised at the front of the bottle: for example, this drink only contains 15 kale, 0.2% spirulina and 2% spinach. I appreciate that these aren't exactly very juice-able ingredients, but the bottle makes it sounds like they are major ingredients, when in reality you're just drinking a mainly fruit, juice.
Score (taste): 3
Score (over all): 3
PART IV: COMMENTS AND REFLECTIONS
First of all, I have a pounding headache right now. It's the evening of the second day, and thank god this experiment is over - because I honestly don't think I can last another day.
Here is how I went with my nutrition today:
Was I hungry throughout this experience? Strangely, no. I did feel pangs of hunger on the first day around noon, but since then, I haven't really felt as ravenous as I'd expected to feel. I was, however, very sad, and kept thinking about food, and the joy food brings to my life.
Never again.
Having started on such a positive, up beat note, let's review today's range of drinks, shall we?
If you have just come into this juice cleansing experience, catch up on what happened yesterday here. I was a lot more upbeat when real food wasn't such a distant memory.
And as promised, I have made a video where you can see my first impressions of the juices. You can find it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SNeHTc4KiA
JUMPING STRAIGHT TO PART III: AMBER TRIES
In true juice cleanser expert fashion, the first juice of the day is a 'tonic'.
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| The Black Lemonade, $9 |
Ingredients: alkaline water, strawberry, lemon, ginger, bentonite clay
Nutritional Information: 13 cal for 470ml; 0.4g protein; 1.3g fat; 4.4g sugar
General Information: Just like the Pink Lemonade, if you dig deeply enough on the Pressed Juices website, you will find this warning: 'Caution: Take 2 hours away from medication & supplements due to the magnetic attraction of the clay.' This time, the charcoal is what does the magnetic pulling upon toxins. Apparently charcoal is to toxins what Justin Bieber was to 13 year olds a few years ago.
Amber's Comments: this one tastes just like lemon water. And by that I mean, the water you can get from squeezing a lemon into a glass of water, that will cost you maybe 50c. However, you can the charcoal bits in the drink and your tongue does get painted black. So that's fun, I guess. On the upside, this drink is incredibly low in calories and sugar.
Score (taste): 3
Score (over all): 4
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| Emma and Tom's Pressed Carnot Top, $3 |
Ingredients: cloudy apple juice (57%), carrot juice (40%) and ginger juice 3%
Nutritional Information: 14 cal for 350ml; 1.5g protein; 0.4g fat; 26.6g sugar
General Information: as far as vegetable and fruit juices go, this one isn't so bad - at least it's almost a half-half split between vegetables and fruit.
Amber's Comments: this is the best tasting of the juices I have tried over the two days. This is another one where you can taste every single ingredient, and I particularly enjoy the ginger kick. What tastes good inevitably is bad for you: at 7.6% sugar, this isn't something you want to make a habit of.
Score (taste): 5
Score (over all): 2
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| Vanilla Protein Shake, $9.50 |
Nutritional Information: 578 cal for 470ml; 28.7g protein; 48.1g fat; 4.6g sugar
General Information: here's a description of the drink on the Pressed Juices website: "A vanilla almond base with notes of white chocolate and hazelnut, enhanced by the rich, roasted coffee flavour and aroma of native wattle seed. Packed with nearly 30g of protein from almond mylk, hazelnut butter and raw protein powder, the Vanilla Protein Shake an excellent source of essential fatty acids, including omega 3 from chia seeds."
Amber's Comments: all the ingredients and the description makes this calories-packed drink sound delicious, right? Wrong. It is hands down the most disgusting thing I have ever tasted in these two days, beating even the sad curry-like Golden Mylkshake. What the ingredients don't suggest to you is that this shit is salty and sour. As if it had gone off. I am, however, quite impressed by how much protein is in a bottle, and the low sugar content.
Score (taste): 0
Score (over all): 2
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| Bruce Greener, $3.50 |
Nutritional Information: 86 cal for 300ml; 2.2g protein; <1g fat; 16.6g sugar
General Information: having a low caloric profile, this green and mean juice is moderately high in sugar at about 5.5%. It boasts some fashionable ingredients, particularly spirulina, which is something of a super food. The quality of protein in spirulina is comparable to eggs (but you put so little spirulina in anything that involves spirulina that this is basically a moot point), it contains all the essential amino acids that we need. Though there have been claims that spirulina contains vitamin B12, the truth is that it contains pseudovitamin B12 which is ineffective in humans.
Amber's Comments: It has quite a clean, green taste. My gripe with it is that the percentage of ingredients that are healthy and attractive is very low, yet prominently advertised at the front of the bottle: for example, this drink only contains 15 kale, 0.2% spirulina and 2% spinach. I appreciate that these aren't exactly very juice-able ingredients, but the bottle makes it sounds like they are major ingredients, when in reality you're just drinking a mainly fruit, juice.
Score (taste): 3
Score (over all): 3
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| Organic Coconut Water, $3.50 |
Ingredients: 100% coconut water
Nutritional Information: 67 cal for 330ml; >1g protein; <1g fat; 7.6g sugar
General Information: Coconut water is coconut water is coconut water. It's been so popular that most people would know what it tastes like. This particular brand boasts of only 2.3% sugar.
Amber's Comments: never tastes as good as an actual coconut. The taste gets really weird for some reason, no matter what brand you try. Unless, of course, you buy those delicious, heavily-sugared Asian coconut water - they are heavenly, but also incredibly unhealthy.
Score (taste): 3
Score (over all): 4
Final juice of this ordeal is another good night tonic.
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| The Sour Cherry, $9 |
Ingredients: alkaline water, montmorency cherry, lemon balm, nopal cactus, lavender
Nutritional Information: 51 cal for 330ml; 0.5g protein; 0g fat; 5.9g sugar
General Information: apparently montmorency cherry is rich in melatonin, which is something that helps with one's circadian rhythm. I tried to take melatonin tablets to battle insomnia once, but it gave me nightmares - oops. Maybe they should add a warning for that just like they did for the morning tonics.
Amber's Comments: for something with the word 'sour' in its name, it actually isn't sour at all. It tastes like a bland yet no-less-perfumed cough syrup. I don't mind the taste itself, but I do mind the sour aftertaste it leaves in one's mouth - not the aftertaste actual sour food leaves; but that weird, unpleasant sour sweet food tends to leave.
Score (taste): 2
Score (over all): 3
PART IV: COMMENTS AND REFLECTIONS
First of all, I have a pounding headache right now. It's the evening of the second day, and thank god this experiment is over - because I honestly don't think I can last another day.
Here is how I went with my nutrition today:
- Calories: 939
- Macros: 38% carbs, 47% fat, 15% protein.
- Protein: 35g. Much better than yesterday, but still 94g under my daily goal.
- Carbs: 87g! Not bad, not bad.
- Sugar: 47g
- Fat: 49g, but very little that - only 3g - was saturated fat.
- Sodium: 477mg, even lower than yesterday. But I miss it so, so much.
Was I hungry throughout this experience? Strangely, no. I did feel pangs of hunger on the first day around noon, but since then, I haven't really felt as ravenous as I'd expected to feel. I was, however, very sad, and kept thinking about food, and the joy food brings to my life.
Never again.
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