Hi, All. New here and really trying to track my foods to ensure optimal nutrition content. Do you have advice on how to track juicing on cronometer? I see some juices are listed but many are not. Any idea if the juice is equivalent in nutrition to the vegetable? For example, if I juice a cucumber, is it nutritionally accurate to list it as a cucumber if cucumber juice isn't in the database? I am not as worried about calorie accuracy as micronutrient accuraracy. Thanks.
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Thank you all for your valuable input. Any advice on how to get enough greens in on busy days, other than juicing?
Barley Green is dehydrated barley greens powder, not cooked. You just add it to water.
its a nice theory, but people, all foods are not made by nature to some numerical standard, just because chronometer has a value for a cucumber doenst mean your cucumber that u ate is of the same value..
the whole logic of using chronometer is flawed. noone is ever going to be able to continually input everythign they eat into a website blah blah blah... its OCD behaviour that everyone gets into and then falls away from.. chronometer.. because nature intended us to use a website to calculate our nutrition. um yea;) its been this way for thousands of years guys typical over obsessing + over thinking ..... i think u all would do better to meditate with neo and try to bend spoons with your thoughts
Yes, what John said, lol
Chris, I see your point but I am totally new to this and I am using it so that I can learn what foods give me what nutrition. I understand it is not totally accurate but if I see I am getting 500% of the RDA for vitamin A, I think it's safe to say it's all good, even if cronometer is 50% off from the actual vitamin A content in my food. If cronometer says I am getting 50% of my RDA for B6 then I am going to make an adjustment to my diet. Still, not totally accurate but it is a useful guide, a tool. Once I get the hang of what vegs and fruits I need I won't use cronometer any more. I don't want to have to log my food. I hate doing it and it's a PITA....but, I'm learning about food!!!
Chronometer is like training wheels for the HCRV lifestyle. You use it to make sure you are getting enough calories and to learn the different foods you need to eat to fill up the daily nutrient percentages. After you gain confidence, you will no longer need to use it. It's a very useful tool for beginners and from using it I've learned a lot about the composition of a healthy raw diet.
Click the food tab at the top and create a new food, if you have the relevant data.
There are a number of juices present in their database, if the one you make isn't there, you can just say you ate the whole vegetable in question. Because the veggies are basically chewed for you, better than you are likely to do with your mouth (like chewing each bite 200 times), the fact is when you juice you absorb more nutrition than when you eat it, minus the fiber. As long as your diet isn't deficient in fiber, you're fine.
Juicing usually reduces fiber and certain other nutrients so it is harder to track. Nothing wrong with adding juice to your diet but replacing meals with it is probably a bad idea. Eating a lot of fruit and veg, the majority of your micro nutrients should be well over par, so just underestimate. As long as your vitamins are showing above target on most days you shouldn't have a problem.