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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
by dodyg 13y ago
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.
- coin 13y agoOr worse, removing the fiber during the juicing process.
- technel 13y agoBlending 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?
- pyre 13y agoApparently 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. Source: http://www.reddit.com/r/veg/comments/1le10o/eating_fruit_cuts_diabetes_risk_but_juice_raises/cbz2hd3 http://www.reddit.com/r/veg/comments/1le10o/eating_fruit_cut...
- dodyg 13y ago"Moreover, the process of blending fruit destroys its latticework of insoluble fiber, whose job it is to slow food’s digestion and absorption from the intestine into the blood, explains Robert Lustig, a pediatric endocrinologist at the University of California-San Francisco" http://www.slate.com/articles/double_x/the_kids/2013/03/pure_organic_buddyfruit_the_case_against_blended_fruit_snacks.html http://www.slate.com/articles/double_x/the_kids/2013/03/pure...
- adamdicarlo 13y agoDoes chewing partly destroy the fibers, too?
- dodyg 13y agoYes but not to the extent of a machine. We don't chew our food to mush.