{"id":256,"date":"2021-07-07T13:46:50","date_gmt":"2021-07-07T13:46:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fit-juice.com\/?p=256"},"modified":"2021-07-07T13:46:50","modified_gmt":"2021-07-07T13:46:50","slug":"add-fat-to-your-carrot-juice-to-increase-carotenoid-absorption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fit-juice.com\/juices\/add-fat-to-your-carrot-juice-to-increase-carotenoid-absorption\/","title":{"rendered":"Add Fat to Your Carrot Juice to Increase Carotenoid Absorption"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The health benefits of juicing are myriad. Carrot juice is the powerhouse of juices because carrots are rich in\u00a0alpha and beta-carotene. (Pumpkins\u00a0are also rich in carotenoids.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The carotenoids in pumpkin and carrot juice are\u00a0scientifically\u00a0proven to make you more attractive\u00a0and eating a few\u00a0servings of carrots each day gives you skin the same glow as being out in the sun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But there\u2019s a catch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Most of us start juicing to get healthier and conventional wisdom says that fats are unhealthy. Yet you need fat to get the full benefits of carrot\u2019s carotenoids.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In \u201cCarotenoid bioavailability is higher from salads ingested with full-fat than with fat-reduced salad dressings as measured with electrochemical detection,\u201d scientists tried figuring out what would happen to a person\u2019s blood levels of carotenoids if they ate no fat, low fat, and high fat salad dressings with their carrots, tomatoes, and other vegetables. What they discovered might surprise you:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>After ingestion of the salads with&nbsp;<strong>fat-free salad dressing<\/strong>, the appearance of alpha-carotene, beta-carotene, and lycopene in chylomicrons was&nbsp;<strong>negligible<\/strong>. After ingestion of the salads with&nbsp;<strong>reduced-fat salad dressing<\/strong>, the appearance of the carotenoids in plasma chylomicrons&nbsp;<strong>increased<\/strong>&nbsp;relative to that after ingestion of the salads with fat-free salad dressing. Similarly, the appearance of the carotenoids in plasma chylomicrons was&nbsp;<strong>highest after the ingestion of salads with full-fat than with reduced-fat salad dressing<\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>There are several simple ways of adding fat to your juices:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>You can drink your juice before eating a fat-containing meal. Try steak, eggs, and green juice or wild Alaskan salmon with carrot juice.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" src=\"https:\/\/fit-juice.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Yellow-red-orange-bell-peppers.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-257\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Eat an avocado.\u00a0<\/li><li>Ean eat a handful of walnuts.<\/li><li>Add olive oil to your juice.<\/li><li>Add two raw egg yolks to your juice and mix them in with a fork.<\/li><li>Mix in some\u00a0liquefied\u00a0coconut oil, or just eat the coconut oil.<\/li><li>Take a few\u00a0fish oil pills\u00a0with your juice; or use\u00a0krill oil.<\/li><li>\u00a0Drink this fish oil. (It actually tastes pretty good.)<\/li><li>You can mix your juice with almond, hemp, or coconut milk. (Get the unsweetened stuff.)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>A quarter-cup of walnuts or almonds, 8 ounces of almond or hemp milk, a tablespoon of olive oil, coconut oil, flaxseed oil, or a few fish oil pills will do the trick.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Keep juicing!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The health benefits of juicing are myriad. Carrot juice is the powerhouse of juices because carrots are rich in\u00a0alpha and beta-carotene. (Pumpkins\u00a0are also rich in carotenoids.) The carotenoids in pumpkin and carrot juice are\u00a0scientifically\u00a0proven to make you more attractive\u00a0and eating a few\u00a0servings of carrots each day gives you skin the same glow as being out&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fit-juice.com\/juices\/add-fat-to-your-carrot-juice-to-increase-carotenoid-absorption\/\">Read On &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":257,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fit-juice.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fit-juice.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fit-juice.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fit-juice.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fit-juice.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fit-juice.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fit-juice.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fit-juice.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fit-juice.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fit-juice.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}