Re:Bill to put health warnings on soda and sugary drinks adv...
by kyriakos on Friday May 24, 2019 @11:33AM
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Blending breaks the fruit down much more than chewing so it probably it's a bit worse than just eating the fruit itself. Since it makes it quicker to absorb. It's obviously not as bad as juices and gives you the same nutritional value as fruit.
I really can't understand why anyone would put sugar in a smoothie. Blending a banana and a couple of berries tastes already very sweet.
I mean:
>What about smoothies?...
You can't expect us to just give a blanket answer to that question. Anyone who does give you a blanket answer is full of it. It's all going to depend on what you put in the smoothie.
If you're just mashing together bananas and, say, spinach or blueberries, along with some crushed ice? Well, yeah, that's obviously no different than eating bananas and spinach or blueberries. That's what our teeth have done for millennia... mash up bananas.
But if you're adding sugar filled vanilla milk? (Or vanilla soy milk, or vanilla almond milk, or etc etc etc, you get the picture.) Well, now the whole thing is not that good for you is it? But it's not the bananas, or the spinach, or the blueberries, or the blackberries, or what have you that all of a sudden become bad...
it's the sugary vanilla milk and yogurt that you dumped into the smoothie that makes it bad.