What better way to use fruit and vegetable juice pulp than to eat it?

Juice pulp is a daily reminder of my morning rise-and-grind rituals. After a run around the block, I pull out the juicer and make myself a green juice. Until now, I’ve only half-heartedly intended to one day teach myself how to compost. But, until I get to that place, I realized that I should at least find an easier solution to finding use of the vestiges of my detox elixir. With the right add-ins, juice pulp can be the basis to a delicious dish or, even more likely, as a sneaky, undetectable ingredient that offers texture, fiber, and moisture to an otherwise irrelevant dish. The following three recipes involve juice pulp in one way or another and lead to less food waste in the kitchen.

While preparing your juice, start by juicing the fruits, collecting their pulp, and setting it aside. Then juice the vegetables, collect their pulp, and set it aside. Store the pulps separately in Ziploc bags in the refrigerator.

3 Juice Pulp Recipes

1. Vegan Juice Pulp Muffins

Makes 24

Ingredients

• 2 cups whole-wheat flour
• 1 cup oat flour
• ¼ cup flax meal
• ½ teaspoon sea salt
• 1 tablespoon baking powder
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon
• ½ teaspoon nutmeg
• 2 cups fruit and vegetable juice pulp
• ½ cup coconut oil
• 1 banana, mashed
• ½ cup almond milk
• ½ cup maple syrup
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Directions

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit.

In a large bowl, mix together all of the ingredients until evenly combined. Scoop the batter evenly into 24 lightly-greased muffin tins. Bake for 20 to 25 minutes. Serve and enjoy!

2. Juice Pulp Crackers

Makes 20-25 crackers

Ingredients

• 3 cups fruit and vegetable juice pulp
• ½ cup flax meal
• ½ cup sunflower seeds
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon dried dill
• 1 teaspoon dried rosemary
• 1 teaspoon garlic powder
• 1 teaspoon red pepper flakes

Directions

Preheat the oven to 150 degrees Fahrenheit.

In a large bowl, stir together all of the ingredients until well combined. Transfer the mixture to a parchment paper-line baking sheet and spread it until it forms a ¼-inch thick rectangle. Use a butter knife to score the dough numerous times horizontally and vertically, forming cracker shapes.

Place the baking sheet into the oven and let bake for two hours. After two hours, flip the crackers and cook them for another two hours, or until the are crispy. If they are not yet crispy after four hours, flip them and continue to cook in 15 to 20 minutes intervals before flipping them again. Continue this process until they are crispy.

Once crispy, let the crackers cool at room temperature before snapping them apart and eating.

3. Fruit Juice Pulp Tea

Servings vary

Ingredients

• 1 cup fruit juice pulp
• 4 cups water
• 1/4-1/2 teaspoon of one or a mixture of spices: cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, etc.

Directions

Boil juice pulp in water along with your favorite spices. Once boiling, reduce heat to a simmer and let cook for another two to three minutes. Strain before serving.

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Remember when pulp was just an optional serving of fruit flesh in your morning glass of orange juice? Now it’s an optional serving of cellulose fibers at your dining table. Designer Debbie Wijskamp uses recycled newspaper to make delicate pulp objects and robust furniture. Yes, furniture. Each piece varies slightly in color depending on the amount of ink saturated into the materials. I think Ms. Wijskamp’s collection is monochromatic perfection.

Pulp isn’t the only form of paper beautifying spaces these days. Made in Poland, this recycled paper pendant ($25) is gloriously utilitarian. If you yearn for a little more charisma in your pendant, take to the paint yourself and brush on a little personality – it’s highly encouraged by the designer, aptly named Make Your Lamp.

Paper mache still makes me think of sticky hands and long afternoons in fourth grade art class. Assuming your memories of paper mache are as amusing as mine, you will definitely be smitten with these birds by Stray Dog. These lovely little avian sculptures are handmade by Haitian artisans, available in delicious hues like Bahamian Sea Salt and Pumpkin Blush ($45 each).

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“It’s time to change everything we know about paper,” is the mission statement of Sodra Pulp Labs.

And that’s what the Swedish architecture firms that partner with the labs are doing as they wrap their minds around 50 years of research on pulp-based materials.

“Could it be durable? Waterproof? Light and insulating? Hard as Kevlar? We don’t know the answers, but you’re welcome to join us as we find them out,” says the lab.

Well, one thing is for sure: it can be kid-proof, such as the Parapu kids’s chair by the architecture firm Claesson Koivisto Rune. Designed for the Milan Furniture Fair 2009, the chairs are stackable for extra play date seating and are seen as a great way to spare our forests and avoid petroleum-based plastics.

Made of compostable Durapulp (a combo of pulp and biodegradable resin from sugar cane), they are sturdy like their name indicates and a way to keep the well-designed nursery free of that oh- so-yucky chemical smell that can take weeks to air out.

Image via: Inhabitots

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