It is kind of obvious advice. By drinking juice, you are consuming an unusually large amount of processed fruit. I hardly touch the stuff. Stick to water or tea or whatever.
Friend: "Why aren't you getting one?"
Me: "Too much sugar. I'm trying to eat better these days."
Friend: "What?! This is a smoothie! There's nothing healthier!"
Me: "But you just saw them grind up 8 oranges, 5 bananas, and 2 pounds of strawberries and put them in a single cup."
Friend: "So?! Fruit is healthy, dumbass!"
Me: "Would you ever eat that much fruit in one sitting?"
I'll stop before it becomes painful. :) But you get the point. People have strong mental associations between fruit and health, no doubt conditioned by years and years of advertising, and USDA guidelines, and so on. But they don't get the whole "too much of a good thing" logic.
That's what makes smoothies particularly dangerous. People know they're not making a great choice when they drink a Coke. People firmly believe they're making a great choice when they drink sugary smoothies and fruit juices. And Jamba Juice, despite being a sugar bomb, at least uses whole fruit. A lot of the packaged drinks use heavily processed crap with added sugar.
How many people are having two or three smoothies a day vs. just a single smoothie? How many of those people would eat the amount of fruit in that smoothie over the course of a normal day? There might be something to be said for getting your daily dose of fruit at once instead of spread out over the day, but I doubt that we're talking about people that are overdosing on fruit.
> sugary smoothies and fruit juices
How is a smoothie more sugary than eating the equivalent amount of fruit? Do you claim that someone eating a bowl of strawberries is having a sugary snack?
> That's what makes smoothies particularly dangerous
How dangerous are they really? Plenty of people will drink > 2 litres of soda over the course of a day. On the other hand, do you think that anyone is drinking more than even a litre of smoothie in a day?
> But you just saw them grind up 8 oranges, 5 bananas, and 2 pounds of strawberries and put them in a single cup.
Really? I make smoothies at home, and it's more like: 2 leaves of kale, protein powder, a banana or two, and a handful (or 2) of frozen strawberries (and maybe an apple or pear). This makes enough smoothie for 2 adults and a child. Are you really don't to claim that this isn't something that could be eaten in a sitting by 2 adults and a child?
I drink water, black coffee, tea, vodka and terribly illegal moonshine.
If you've ever made jam (jello to our American cousins) before adding the sugar to your stewed fruit, taste it. Definitely lots of sugar in there!
I think you mean jelly.
ggp probably meant the word "jelly" instead of the word "jello".
No one is contesting the word "jam".
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