7 A Day - Really ?

[Tuppy_Glossop]

I'm pretty sure liver contains way more minerals and vitamins than any fruit or veg.

Only the fat-soluble ones.

 

[Haggisman]

How exactly is making your fruit into a smoothie any different from eating it and washing it down with a glass of water? It gets pureed when you chew & digest it anyway...

 

[Chiz]

Only the fat-soluble ones.

And a good multi vitamin will take care off the water soluble ones

 

[scorza]

How exactly is making your fruit into a smoothie any different from eating it and washing it down with a glass of water? It gets pureed when you chew & digest it anyway...

I could be wrong here but I think it may be do to surface area. If you eat fruit you swallow it in chunks, and so the sugar is absorbed into the body at a slower rate than if you drink it as liquid, and therefore less strain on the pancreas.

 

[Tuppy_Glossop]

And a good multi vitamin will take care off the water soluble ones

Polyphenols ?

 

[Chiz]

Here's a good example. A comparison between carrots, apples, meat and liver

http://chriskresser.com/natures-most-potent-superfood

 

[Chiz]

Polyphenols ?

Ahh.. Red wine, dark chocolate and coffee will cover those

 

[Tuppy_Glossop]

Ahh.. Red wine, dark chocolate and coffee will cover those

Cheat

 

[arctine]

Don't you get potassium poisoning from eating shed-loads of bananas??

That would be my next question

 

[Spit]

Today I have had:

Banana
Sultanas
Tomatoes
Onion
Carrot
Courgette
Red Pepper
Broccoli
Lettuce
Apple

Its not hard.

 

[Tonester0011]

Bacon is a fruit? Isn't it?

 

[dacads]

Good to see people don't just eat meat everyday

 

[badcompany]

they want you to eat less meat ( as its all going to china and getting expensive) this way we wont notice that we are becoming poorer.

 

[Energize]

I don't trust the labels that tell you how many portions of fruit/veg a product contains. I had some Heinz soup today which stated 3 of your 5 a day, for a tin of heavily processed soup? That can't be right..

What's so hard to believe about that? Soup is just blended vegetables...

Smoothies remove a lot of the fibre and vitamins and are highly concentrated in sugar.

If you have them there, don't butcher them in a blender. Just eat them. You may as well drink a cup of coffee instead.

Biggest load of rubbish I've ever heard. The chemical composition of fruit is not changed by blending them.

Not all fruits are high sugar, and your body reacts differently to fruits than it does to refined sugars.

Calories are calories. I was just joking about the diabetes, the evidence doesn't show that sugar is particularly harmful in itself.

 

[Diagro]

Smoothies remove a lot of the fibre and vitamins and are highly concentrated in sugar.

If you have them there, don't butcher them in a blender. Just eat them. You may as well drink a cup of coffee instead.

LOL LOL LOL

 

[pinkowl]

It should be about 700g a day anyways. Some of the "one of your 5 a day" things you see are just silly. Apple juice does not count as a fruit or veg.

Shows how bad UK is in healthy eating when it seems impossible for people to eat fruit and veg instead of the usual junk food.

 

[Nymins]

Don't see why it's funny or hard to understand. Blending the fruit removes a lot of the skin which is were most of the fibre is held.

People seem to think that they can pack in a ton of fruit at once into a smoothie, but that isn't particularly good for you. It's bad for your teeth for a start and the high fructose content means your pancreas is getting a work out. It's better to eat the fruit slowly, rather than gulping down loads at once with the expectation that it's good for you.

 

[Energize]

It should be about 700g a day anyways. Some of the "one of your 5 a day" things you see are just silly. Apple juice does not count as a fruit or veg.

What matters is the vitamins and minerals so yes it does.

Don't see why it's funny or hard to understand. Blending the fruit removes a lot of the skin which is were most of the fibre is held.

People seem to think that they can pack in a ton of fruit at once into a smoothie, but that isn't particularly good for you. It's bad for your teeth for a start and the high fructose content means your pancreas is getting a work out. It's better to eat the fruit slowly, rather than gulping down loads at once with the expedition that it's good for you.

Blending does not remove the skin, you eat what is blended including the skin. A smoothie has no more sugar than the fruit in it.

 

[Nymins]

But the problem is people add in more and more fruit into a smoothie because you don't get that much juice out of one piece of fruit. You need quite a lot to get a decent sized glass full.

Doing this massively increases the sugar content. The same thing happens with pure juice drinks, like pure orange. It has very high amounts of sugar in it, compared to just eating an orange which would be much better.

 

[MikeTheNative]

But the problem is people add in more and more fruit into a smoothie because you don't get that much juice out of one piece of fruit. You need quite a lot to get a decent sized glass full.

Doing this massively increases the sugar content. The same thing happens with pure juice drinks, like pure orange. It has very high amounts of sugar in it, compared to just eating an orange which would be much better.

This really, it doesn't fill you up as much but there is a lot more sugar in it.