Eli5 – How is fruit that is chewed better for you than fruit that is blended / juiced?

Question

Is fruit that is juiced or blended better than no fruit at all? Or, is it better to avoid any juiced fruit?

I like the flavour of fruit but not the texture, because of this I avoid all fruit and am pretty close minded on trying anything new due to price and waste.

I recently debated buying baby blended fruit pouches to add vitamins into my diet; is this something that will be better than avoiding fruit all together?

Thank you for any comments in advance!

Edit: Thank you all so much for your replies, and as well for the suggestions and advice!

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Answer 1

Blended fruit would be the same a s whole fruit. Juice fruit doesn’t have any of the fiber of the whole fruit so it is higher in the percentage of sugar per measure and has little to no fiber.