• Eager Eagle@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Fruit juice is about as nutritious as a soda

    Not even close. Different kinds of sugar, preservatives, and vitamins all have vastly different ratios.

    • Wogi@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      Different kinds of sugar are all sugar when they get to your gut. Anything beyond “the body treats this like sugar” is just a pissing contest.

      When you juice something, you’re leaving 95% of the nutrients in the fruit, extracting the sugar water, and telling yourself you’re drinking healthy. That’s just not the case. The meat of the fruit is where that stuff is at. The fact that some of it makes it in to the juice is incidental. It would be better to drink a glass of water and eat the orange, than to juice the orange. Unless you then throw the juice away and just eat what’s left of the orange. That’s probably the best thing.

      • HappyRedditRefugee@lemm.ee
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        2 months ago

        Where I come from we just take the meat of the fruit and blend it with milk or water (and yes, we call that juice), I you have never try it, go get a ripe mango, blend it with milk and you’ll have a delicious smootie, you can use water but imh milk is superior for that use case.

        Of cours that is no possible with oranges for example, but there a aloooooot mor fruits than oranges.

        If you ever have the oportunity to have some guayaba-milk-juice, don’t pass it up, the shit is the nectar of the gods.