[_jtrig]

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.

[jandrese]

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.

[ghostly_s]

You think the nutritional content of kale or beets increases when you juice them? Source?

[jandrese]

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...

[logfromblammo]

The effort to eat a bushel of kale dwarfs the effort to drink 1.5 juiced bushels of kale.

[blacksmith_tb]

Perhaps, though steamed or fried it'd probably fit on a single plate... and then you'd get the fiber, too.

[jandrese]

Supposedly cooking kale will destroy most of its nutritional value.