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The information I've seen would seem to suggest that smoothies are somewhere in between fruit juice and whole foods. Yes, you do start with whole fruit. But th
by bunderbunder 7y ago
The information I've seen would seem to suggest that smoothies are somewhere in between fruit juice and whole foods.
Yes, you do start with whole fruit. But then you stick it into a piece of food processing equipment and process the bajeezus out of it. That seems to have an effect on how your body digests it. One of the noteworthy differences is that it makes it a lot easier for your digestive system to extract the calories from it. So your body's going to see it as a more sugary food than if you hadn't used a machine to pre-digest your food a bit before eating it.
I've also heard tell that liquids just aren't as filling as solids. Meaning that liquefying your food before eating it makes it easier to over-consume.
- lixtra 7y agoIf you’re chewing the fruit as throughly as advised I doubt your stomach sees much difference between a smoothy and a fruit. Except that enzymes from salvia already started digestion.
- ebg13 7y ago> as throughly as advised Advised by whom? You could always chew less. > I doubt Why bother doubting or not doubting? People actually study this.
- bunderbunder 7y agoOne of the studies that struck me (don't have it at hand) involved taking exactly the same diet and feeding it whole to one group and pureed to the other. The pureed food group gained weight and the control group didn't. I've no idea how replicable that result is, but I'd still take that over a hypothesis that hasn't been tested at all.
- bilbo0s 7y agoJust as a pedantic point, (nothing to do with the topic at hand), if a study has not been replicated, and you cannot lay your hands on the replicated data... then it's pretty much the same as a "...hypothesis that hasn't been tested at all...".