I was told about above truth? But I don’t know why, and if we chew the fruit by teeth very carefully, it’s bad for healthy cause you get more unnecessary sugar?
In: Biology
There’s no filler (the fiber, the pulp of the fruit) in the juice so you get straight up sugary water in your stomach. Those filler will slow down your metabolism as the stomach and intestines have to do more work digesting all of that.
This is the same reason why some medicines will tell you to take them with an empty stomach for quick absorption.
Blending breaks cell walls, releasing enzymes that help absorption, not just sugar content.
Just to counter-point your comment – eating fruit is NOT less healthy than drinking only the juice of a fruit.
Isn’t also just pure volume? How many oranges does it take to fill a tall glass of juice? Would you eat that many oranges at one go?
Chemical reactions only happen at the surface of the solid. When a fruit is digested in your stomach, it’s digested from the outside in. When it’s in juice form, it’s as if it’s billions of tiny particles, and so they’re all digested at once.
The food matrix is gone.
Good read: Ultra Processes People by Chris Van Tulleken. Also, the audiobook is one of the best non-fiction audiobooks out there. The guy is 1) a doctor, 2) a professor, 3) a tv personality and 4) a podcast host.
He has the voice to read a book out loud. Get it for free at your local library.
And remember, companies don’t make food to feed you. They make food because that is how they make money. That is why your sour cream now contains Xantan gum. Not because it is better, but because it is cheaper.
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