Curious on behalf of my inner 5-year-old…
I’ve read that there is something about whole vegetables that make them more beneficial for your health, compared to eating ‘powdered’ vegetables in pills or shakes.
I’ve seen things like, “pills are unlikely to replicate the powerful, nutritional effects of whole food”, or… “supplements can help, but are not intended as a replacement for real veggies.”
But I’m confused: the (albeit not that trustworthy) marketing for powdered vegetable pills always sounds like they are literally just mashed-up and super dehydrated vegetables or something. So… if true, wouldn’t that have the same effect? Or is that a total misrepresentation of what the pills really are?
Thanks!
In: Biology
I read a website where a scientist(?) broke down the contents of one of those veggie pills, you know, the one claiming to be the same as eating 28 vegetables. Basically, she could definitely prove by the ingredients alone that there was maybe 12 at a stretch, but the main thing is the amount. In these pills is so little from the goodness that comes from veggies that it’s almost negligible. [This website](https://www.thenutritionguruandthechef.com/2019/10/24/the-truth-about-juice-plus/) has a nice breakdown of it.
So do they help? Maybe better than nothing. Can they replace actually veggies? Heck no
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