What Are the Different Ways to Use the Pulp After Juicing?

• Astandard juicing machine separates the pulp from the juice of fruits and vegetables. Depending on the style of your machine, you typically take the machine apart to clean it and remove the pulp. Instead of tossing that fiber rich pulp in the garbage, put it to good use.

Baking

• Add the pulp to baking recipes, for fiber-rich muffins and cakes. You can also mix some pulp in with your pancake or waffle batter. If you intend to add the pulp to a recipe, remove seeds prior to juicing. Some fruit seeds, such as apple seeds contain small amounts of cyanide, although you would have to eat a large number of the seeds for it to be harmful. Other fruits with toxic seeds include pears, peaches, apricots and plums. While eating a few may not cause a problem, beyond a stomach ache, if you regularly add pulp to baked items, you may want to keep free of toxic seeds.

Dessert

• Some fruit pulp is especially soft, such as blueberries and grapes. Use these soft and wet fruit pulps to make dessert toppings, or add them to plain yogurt, your oatmeal, breakfast cereal, homemade ice cream or sorbet. Place the pulp in a plastic freezer storage bag and freeze until you are ready to add them to your food.

Soups and Sauces

• Use pulp to make soups or sauces. To make soup, saute vegetable pulp with a little butter, and then stir in some flour to make a roux. While simmering, add milk, cream or broth to the roux for a fiber rich soup. For dinner, experiment with your vegetable pulp to make a sauce for pasta. Making sauce is similar to making soup.

Meatloaf

• Meatloaf is a mixture of ground beef, diced vegetables, breadcrumbs and egg. Vegetable pulp is a natural addition to a meatloaf recipe. Experiment by adding fruit pulp to your recipe for meatloaf with a tangy sweet flavor.

Compost Pile

• A compost pile provides rich garden soil and fertilizer for your garden, while recycling your kitchen scraps and garden debris. Select a flat area to build the compost, and layer leaves, garden trimmings, nonmeat kitchen scraps, coffee grounds, eggshells and shredded paper with a covering of fertilizer and top soil. The pile decomposes if it is kept moist and regularly turned. Once started, regularly add in new composting material such as the pulp from your juicer.