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What if you make fresh squeezed OJ at home, eat the leftover pulp and skins first, and then drink the juice? I wonder if that has the same glycemic impact as eating an orange.

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The juice is still much less healthy. It’s the act of having your guts extract the nutrients that makes fruit healthy, because it reduces how quickly your body absorbs it. Once you make it into juice (or a smoothie) by mechanically digesting it prior to consumption, you’ve removed the need for that.

You forgot about chewing. Nobody swallows oranges in chunks. You chew and that presses out the juice. Drinking the juice and then eating the pulp is no different although it does sound silly. At that point just eat the damn orange like a normal person.

> Drinking the juice and then eating the pulp is no different although it does sound silly. At that point just eat the damn orange like a normal person.

It's less silly than taking a shot of vodka and eating an orange. Tastier too.

Drinking alcohol is silly.

No doubt. We all need some silliness in our lives.

This sounds like a good idea for a science experiment and a following paper!

Why not just eat the orange. I can't be the only one who finds eating the pulp alone icky. Like chewing on a damp rag.

How do you put vodka into an orange?

Open the orange, remove the giraffe, put in the vodka.

(Variation on: <https://www.smart-words.org/jokes/giraffe-refrigerator-eleph...>.)

Alternatively, use an apple-corer to breach the peel, pour in a shot of vodka, and drink with a straw, much as with watermelon:

<https://www.thespruceeats.com/vodka-watermelon-recipe-417556...>.

The Irishman taught me how to put vodka into a watermelon.

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