red smoothie recipes-skip the juice, go for wholesome smoothie.
You walk into your neighborhood market and
want something cold to drink. The health conscious you by passes the soda
section and heads to the healthier juice section. Yes, red smoothie recipes ,there are rows of them orange, apple, grape
and with that oh, and look so many different smoothies loaded with blueberries,
pomegranate, strawberries, protein, aecia kiwi and none of them have any added
sugar.
I am sure it’s perfect for you, stop right there. You might as well back up to the soda section and grab a good old cola. Why? Because fruit juices and most commercial fruit juice smoothies are not for you than a can of soda.
Yep, you heard correctly. They are absolutely loaded with sugar. In fact, they have as much sugar and, in many cases more sugar, than an equal serving of soda. Still scratching your head over this one? 1 16 ounce serving cola has a hulking 13 ½ teaspoons of sugar.
A vast majority of the resumed healthy naked and oddball fruit smoothies have about 15 teaspoon of sugar. So stop and think about this. Imagine buying a coffee, stepping to the service counter, and ripping open between 13 and 19 packets of sugar to pour into your coffee.
If you saw someone do this you would be disgusted. And yet, that’s exactly what you do every time you reach for a fruit juice beverage. The fruit smoothies are equally bad. On average you are consuming 15 teaspoon of sugar with each 16 ounce bottle.
The marketing of these beverages, however, makes you believe that they are actually good for you. The label of the naked pomegranate acacia smoothie features an illustration that shows exactly how much fruit in each bottle 2/3 pomegranates, 95 acacia berries, 1/3 apples/2 banana, 14 red grapes and 14 white grapes. All of this fruit at the price of nearly 16 teaspoons of sugar.
Now here my question, what you happen if you actually sat down and ate 2/3 pomegranates, 95 acacia berries, 1/3 apples, ½ banana, 14 red grapes and 14 white grapes? It would certainly take a lot longer to consume all that fruit than it would to drink the smoothie, which would reduce the sugar spike.
You would also feel full, that’s a heck of a lot of fruit to eat in one sitting. From a nutritional standpoint juices also lose. The bitter truth about sugar is that the biggest problem with juices is that they are stripped of fiber. Fiber reduces sugar absorption, making you feel fuller faster and it suppresses insulin.
The pomegranate acacia smoothie, for instance has ZERO grams of fiber versus a whooping 45 grams of fiber in the actual whole fruit. Whoa, do you want to make a giant fruit salad. In reality fruit without fiber sets off a sugar bomb in your body.
In fact, the concentrated sugar in juice, stripped of all fiber, makes blood sugar levels and the corresponding insulin response soar. When the fiber is removed the chemistry of the sugar changes. In a while fruit the sugar is sucrose, which are ½ glucose and ½ fructose.
However, once separated the sugar becomes 100% fructose, which is metabolized ONLY in the liver. Instead of providing energy, it generates fat and becomes insulin resistant. What does this mean? There is a host of medical issues associated with consuming fructose which includes obesity, liver dysfunction, hypertension, high cholesterol, insulin resistance, systemic inflammation, increased appetite, chronic fatigue and sugar cravings.
Greater consumption of fruit juices was is associated with higher risk of type2 diabetes. Think about what this means for the millions of children in our country that drinks juices boxes and glasses of juice throughout the day.
From personal experience I can tell you that fruit juices are expounded as a healthy alternative to soda and milk. The amount of sugar children are drinking is alarming and perhaps the underlying contributor to the rise of obesity in our country.
The regular consumption of sugary drinks defined as one of more 8 ounce servings daily is associated with higher body mass index scores in 4 and 5 years old. An 8 ounce serving? That’s only one half of the typical Tropicana orange juice container.
Further a study found that 5 years old who regularly has sugary drinks are more likely to be obese and 2 years old who regularly drank sugar sweetened beverages has larger increase in BMI over the following two years than 2 years old who had sugary drinks infrequently or not at all.
Oh, I know, but they are all natural and full of vitamins. Yes, they are natural, and some have vitamins. However, many of the juices that meet the recommended daily allowance of particular vitamins ADD the vitamins to the juice.
For instance, in a popular juice there is 100% of the RDA of vitamin A, however it is added as beta carotene. The same juice only provides 10% of the RDA of vitamin C. If you ate the actual whole fruit listed on the label, however you would consume 156% of the RDA of vitamin C.
There really is no argument for drinking fruit juice. Taste? Convenience? Not worth the havoc. In fact the detriment far outweighs any positives. Some of my favorites? I nearly reach for water, because chances are I am actually thirsty.
But, when I want something with flavor I opt for 100% vegetable juices although I tend to steer away from more sugary carrot and beet juices, unsweetened teas, and sparkling water with a bit of fruit flavoring. And by the day all the electrolyte replacement drinks and vitamin waters?
Most of them red smoothie recipes contain even MORE sugar than soda or fruit juice. Check your labels carefully. So, next time you walk into the corner market to pick something to drink, don’t be fooled by the pretty packaging and the marketing allure of a natural, vitamin laden fruit juice. Walk on by the juice section and opt for something that does your body good and for that please visit here.
I am sure it’s perfect for you, stop right there. You might as well back up to the soda section and grab a good old cola. Why? Because fruit juices and most commercial fruit juice smoothies are not for you than a can of soda.
Yep, you heard correctly. They are absolutely loaded with sugar. In fact, they have as much sugar and, in many cases more sugar, than an equal serving of soda. Still scratching your head over this one? 1 16 ounce serving cola has a hulking 13 ½ teaspoons of sugar.
A vast majority of the resumed healthy naked and oddball fruit smoothies have about 15 teaspoon of sugar. So stop and think about this. Imagine buying a coffee, stepping to the service counter, and ripping open between 13 and 19 packets of sugar to pour into your coffee.
If you saw someone do this you would be disgusted. And yet, that’s exactly what you do every time you reach for a fruit juice beverage. The fruit smoothies are equally bad. On average you are consuming 15 teaspoon of sugar with each 16 ounce bottle.
The marketing of these beverages, however, makes you believe that they are actually good for you. The label of the naked pomegranate acacia smoothie features an illustration that shows exactly how much fruit in each bottle 2/3 pomegranates, 95 acacia berries, 1/3 apples/2 banana, 14 red grapes and 14 white grapes. All of this fruit at the price of nearly 16 teaspoons of sugar.
Now here my question, what you happen if you actually sat down and ate 2/3 pomegranates, 95 acacia berries, 1/3 apples, ½ banana, 14 red grapes and 14 white grapes? It would certainly take a lot longer to consume all that fruit than it would to drink the smoothie, which would reduce the sugar spike.
You would also feel full, that’s a heck of a lot of fruit to eat in one sitting. From a nutritional standpoint juices also lose. The bitter truth about sugar is that the biggest problem with juices is that they are stripped of fiber. Fiber reduces sugar absorption, making you feel fuller faster and it suppresses insulin.
The pomegranate acacia smoothie, for instance has ZERO grams of fiber versus a whooping 45 grams of fiber in the actual whole fruit. Whoa, do you want to make a giant fruit salad. In reality fruit without fiber sets off a sugar bomb in your body.
In fact, the concentrated sugar in juice, stripped of all fiber, makes blood sugar levels and the corresponding insulin response soar. When the fiber is removed the chemistry of the sugar changes. In a while fruit the sugar is sucrose, which are ½ glucose and ½ fructose.
However, once separated the sugar becomes 100% fructose, which is metabolized ONLY in the liver. Instead of providing energy, it generates fat and becomes insulin resistant. What does this mean? There is a host of medical issues associated with consuming fructose which includes obesity, liver dysfunction, hypertension, high cholesterol, insulin resistance, systemic inflammation, increased appetite, chronic fatigue and sugar cravings.
Greater consumption of fruit juices was is associated with higher risk of type2 diabetes. Think about what this means for the millions of children in our country that drinks juices boxes and glasses of juice throughout the day.
From personal experience I can tell you that fruit juices are expounded as a healthy alternative to soda and milk. The amount of sugar children are drinking is alarming and perhaps the underlying contributor to the rise of obesity in our country.
The regular consumption of sugary drinks defined as one of more 8 ounce servings daily is associated with higher body mass index scores in 4 and 5 years old. An 8 ounce serving? That’s only one half of the typical Tropicana orange juice container.
Further a study found that 5 years old who regularly has sugary drinks are more likely to be obese and 2 years old who regularly drank sugar sweetened beverages has larger increase in BMI over the following two years than 2 years old who had sugary drinks infrequently or not at all.
Oh, I know, but they are all natural and full of vitamins. Yes, they are natural, and some have vitamins. However, many of the juices that meet the recommended daily allowance of particular vitamins ADD the vitamins to the juice.
For instance, in a popular juice there is 100% of the RDA of vitamin A, however it is added as beta carotene. The same juice only provides 10% of the RDA of vitamin C. If you ate the actual whole fruit listed on the label, however you would consume 156% of the RDA of vitamin C.
There really is no argument for drinking fruit juice. Taste? Convenience? Not worth the havoc. In fact the detriment far outweighs any positives. Some of my favorites? I nearly reach for water, because chances are I am actually thirsty.
But, when I want something with flavor I opt for 100% vegetable juices although I tend to steer away from more sugary carrot and beet juices, unsweetened teas, and sparkling water with a bit of fruit flavoring. And by the day all the electrolyte replacement drinks and vitamin waters?
Most of them red smoothie recipes contain even MORE sugar than soda or fruit juice. Check your labels carefully. So, next time you walk into the corner market to pick something to drink, don’t be fooled by the pretty packaging and the marketing allure of a natural, vitamin laden fruit juice. Walk on by the juice section and opt for something that does your body good and for that please visit here.
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