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Everything will be killing us in the future. Now it's the smoothies and fruit juices. I don't know what this health-society pretends, if ending all kind of consuming substances or really wasting time producing FUD. No offense to anyone.
Fruits contain fibers that are beneficial for your digestive system and control the spike of sugar level in you body. If you put them in a blender, you destroy much of the fibers and one of the major benefit of eating fruit.
A sugary beverage should be a celebratory drink, reserved for special occasions, like beer or wine, not a staple of our diet.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
People use the word jam in the states. I first saw the word used at Denny's.
Read wintermute's quote. ggp probably meant the word "jelly" instead of the word "jello". No one is contesting the word "jam". Don't reply to this comment.
Don't reply to this comment.
Fruits contain fibers that are beneficial for your digestive system and control the spike of sugar level in you body. If you put them in a blender, you destroy much of the fibers and one of the major benefit of eating fruit.
Blending speeds up digestion and reduces satiety versus eating whole fruit, but (unlike juicing) I haven't seen any evidence that it destroys fiber. Do you have a reference?
Apparently the lowered glycemic index for foods
of a smaller particle size is only for starchy
foods (smaller particles hydrolyze easier,
making them higher GI). So while my statement
may have held true for starches, it wouldn't for
fruits. I have no idea about smoothies! It's out
of the scope of the paper, though, so all we can
say is that the study suggests that juicing
increases diabetic risk and whole fruits lower
it.
I'd love to know how much of this pointlessly processed food contributes to environmental problems compared to cars, for example.
DO NOT DRINK FRUIT JUICES / SMOOTHIES without a straw. The acidity from the fruit will demineralize and erode your teeth. Here's what happened to my two front teeth. http://min.us/lbzsDfIjfJqxOz Luckily my two front teeth are large enough to sand and grind past the damaged bottom portions and look normal again. It happened in just 2 weeks of drinking fruit juices twice a day.
Fruits contain fibers that are beneficial for your digestive system and control the spike of sugar level in you body. If you put them in a blender, you destroy much of the fibers and one of the major benefit of eating fruit.
It's often quite surprising to read the ingredient list on these smoothies. They consist largely of apple juice concentrate, and rather small amounts of the fruits advertised on the front.
This is what I would like to know more about. Other day I picked up a 32oz smoothie, which said this is equivalent to 40 strawberries, 1 banana and 6 apples. How is that possible in only $5? Do they get fruits so cheap to make up for other costs? And true enough, there was strawberry puree, banana puree but apple juice concentrate and apple puree in it.
However, if you think of it purely from a volume standpoint... if you stuck 6 apples and 40 strawberries in a blender, I have a feeling that's gonna add up to significantly more than 32oz. Maybe they're really tiny apples...
Make your own smoothies -> super healthy stuff with plenty of energy to get you through the afternoon slump.