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yup pressing/blending fruits destroys any nutritional value. You're left with basically sugar water. Yes it's "natural sugar", but it's still not the healthy fo

yup pressing/blending fruits destroys any nutritional value. You're left with basically sugar water. Yes it's "natural sugar", but it's still not the healthy food people make it out to be.

pvg 9y ago
Wouldn't chewing fruit destroy all nutritional value as well, if that were true?
- neaden 9y ago
  You eat the fiber when you chew the fruit, when you press it the fiber is left in the pouch.
  - pvg 9y ago
    Surely fiber is not the totality of nutritional value in fruit nor is a pouch some kind of magical fiber eliminator.
dragonwriter 9y ago
> yup pressing/blending fruits destroys any nutritional value. Pressing (but not blending) leaves some of the good bits (including bits that mitigate some of the adverse effects of sugars) behind, but it does not destroy the nutritional value, as many of the important micronutrients of the fruit are retained in the juice. Hyperbole isn't helpful here.
- nxsynonym 9y ago
  You're correct, I mixed up pressing and blending. My bad. Either way - an all fruit diet is not healthy or balanced. And as far as I can tell, whole fruits are still better for your health then pressed/blended/squeezed. Relevant : https://www.wired.com/2015/04/nobody-can-prove-cold-pressed-juice-better/ https://www.wired.com/2015/04/nobody-can-prove-cold-pressed-...
matthewmacleod 9y ago
yup pressing/blending fruits destroys any nutritional value That is utter nonsense. Yes, whole fruit is healthier than blended fruit or juice. No, that does not mean there is no nutritional value.
- icebraining 9y ago
  Why is whole better than blended? Assuming you blend everything that you'd otherwise eat, that is.
  - matthewmacleod 9y ago
    My understanding was that blending caused insoluble fibre to be less effective, but I might actually have been wrong about that. I would expect blending however to increase the adsorption speed of fruit sugar and affect blood sugar levels more rapidly, which might be somewhat negative. It’s certainly not as clear-cut as I thought, and I reckon smoothies are probably still pretty good if you aren’t overdoing it!

yup pressing/blending fruits destroys any nutritional value. You're left with basically sugar water. Yes it's "natural sugar", but it's still not the healthy food people make it out to be.

pvg 9y ago

Wouldn't chewing fruit destroy all nutritional value as well, if that were true?

neaden 9y ago
You eat the fiber when you chew the fruit, when you press it the fiber is left in the pouch.
- pvg 9y ago
  Surely fiber is not the totality of nutritional value in fruit nor is a pouch some kind of magical fiber eliminator.

dragonwriter 9y ago

> yup pressing/blending fruits destroys any nutritional value. Pressing (but not blending) leaves some of the good bits (including bits that mitigate some of the adverse effects of sugars) behind, but it does not destroy the nutritional value, as many of the important micronutrients of the fruit are retained in the juice. Hyperbole isn't helpful here.

nxsynonym 9y ago
You're correct, I mixed up pressing and blending. My bad. Either way - an all fruit diet is not healthy or balanced. And as far as I can tell, whole fruits are still better for your health then pressed/blended/squeezed. Relevant : https://www.wired.com/2015/04/nobody-can-prove-cold-pressed-juice-better/ https://www.wired.com/2015/04/nobody-can-prove-cold-pressed-...

matthewmacleod 9y ago

yup pressing/blending fruits destroys any nutritional value That is utter nonsense. Yes, whole fruit is healthier than blended fruit or juice. No, that does not mean there is no nutritional value.

icebraining 9y ago
Why is whole better than blended? Assuming you blend everything that you'd otherwise eat, that is.
- matthewmacleod 9y ago
  My understanding was that blending caused insoluble fibre to be less effective, but I might actually have been wrong about that. I would expect blending however to increase the adsorption speed of fruit sugar and affect blood sugar levels more rapidly, which might be somewhat negative. It’s certainly not as clear-cut as I thought, and I reckon smoothies are probably still pretty good if you aren’t overdoing it!