Is one of the biggest health food misconceptions the obsession with smoothies and bowls of fruit?

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Anonymous wrote:Why is she putting that much sugar in a smoothie? It should be mostly protein.

It's not added sugar, it's the fruit itself. When you blend it you're mainlining all that sugar into your bloodstream. And really, those pretty bowls overflowing with 5 servings of high-sugar fruit aren't much better.

Your body needs sugar, better from fruit than candy

Our bodies need glucose but absolutely don't need sugar in the form of fructose or sucrose, i.e. sugars from fruit and candy. Fruit obv has lots of vitamins which are beneficial, but concentrated fruit juice is high in fructose, which is metabolized by your liver like alcohol. You don't need fructose just like you don't need alcohol, but fruit is beneficial in appropriate amounts, i.e. eating whole fruit and not drinking a liter of fruit juice a day.

And blending fruit is not the same as Juice.

[Anonymous]

TIL there are people out there that believe blending fruit makes it not fruit.

[Anonymous]

I make smoothies every day. I track what I eat, so I know they are not loaded in sugar. I also know several other people that make smoothies at home. Consistently we all do this:
1. Unsweetened nut milk or water
2. Protein powder
3. Frozen fruit prices.
No one adds an entire mango, or an entire banana. Most add 1-2 cups of berries (which most are lower on the sugar scale for fruit)
Most add spinach or kale or beets.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Tell me you have disordered eating habits without telling me you have disordered eating habits.

I eat oatmeal for breakfast because it is healthy but I don't use Oatley creamer in my coffee because I'm trying to be healthy.

[Anonymous]

apples and oranges.

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I have to wonder if the “grapes are sugar bombs” poster is contributing to the thread. Or the “single avocado for dinner is sufficient” poster.

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No one is getting fat off of fruit. Jeez.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I make smoothies every day. I track what I eat, so I know they are not loaded in sugar. I also know several other people that make smoothies at home. Consistently we all do this:
1. Unsweetened nut milk or water
2. Protein powder
3. Frozen fruit prices.
No one adds an entire mango, or an entire banana. Most add 1-2 cups of berries (which most are lower on the sugar scale for fruit)
Most add spinach or kale or beets.

Most recipes call for a banana and 1 cup of fruit, maybe a 1/2 of a banana, but don't pretend people don't put a whole banana in most the time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I make smoothies every day. I track what I eat, so I know they are not loaded in sugar. I also know several other people that make smoothies at home. Consistently we all do this:
1. Unsweetened nut milk or water
2. Protein powder
3. Frozen fruit prices.
No one adds an entire mango, or an entire banana. Most add 1-2 cups of berries (which most are lower on the sugar scale for fruit)
Most add spinach or kale or beets.

Most recipes call for a banana and 1 cup of fruit, maybe a 1/2 of a banana, but don't pretend people don't put a whole banana in most the time.

I don’t add banana.
Don’t pretend to know what “everyone” else does.

[Anonymous]

I was an early juicer devotee. Recommended by my osteopath.

Had to stop because the smoothies were making my blood sugar spike and I’d become queasy. I was juicing apples, kale, carrots

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I make smoothies every day. I track what I eat, so I know they are not loaded in sugar. I also know several other people that make smoothies at home. Consistently we all do this:
1. Unsweetened nut milk or water
2. Protein powder
3. Frozen fruit prices.
No one adds an entire mango, or an entire banana. Most add 1-2 cups of berries (which most are lower on the sugar scale for fruit)
Most add spinach or kale or beets.

Most recipes call for a banana and 1 cup of fruit, maybe a 1/2 of a banana, but don't pretend people don't put a whole banana in most the time.

I add a whole banana mainly because I don’t want to save half. I add 140 g of whatever type of other fruit I have on hand plus 85 g of kale or spinach, hemp seeds, some kind of milk or water, and plant based protein powder. I run a lot of miles and need the carbs.

[Anonymous]

I’m Brazilian and I love açaí bowls. But the açaí bowls that I eat are nothing like the plain açaí I have at home. I know it’s loaded with sugar and stuff and don’t think I am actually eating a health food.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m Brazilian and I love açaí bowls. But the açaí bowls that I eat are nothing like the plain açaí I have at home. I know it’s loaded with sugar and stuff and don’t think I am actually eating a health food.

*that I eat here

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I was an early juicer devotee. Recommended by my osteopath.

Had to stop because the smoothies were making my blood sugar spike and I’d become queasy. I was juicing apples, kale, carrots

Numerous posters have noted that juicing is not the same as making smoothies. Juicing removes all the fiber in a fruit; smoothies keep all the fiber and you ingest it. Drinking juice is very different than drinking a smoothie.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I make smoothies every day. I track what I eat, so I know they are not loaded in sugar. I also know several other people that make smoothies at home. Consistently we all do this:
1. Unsweetened nut milk or water
2. Protein powder
3. Frozen fruit prices.
No one adds an entire mango, or an entire banana. Most add 1-2 cups of berries (which most are lower on the sugar scale for fruit)
Most add spinach or kale or beets.

Most recipes call for a banana and 1 cup of fruit, maybe a 1/2 of a banana, but don't pretend people don't put a whole banana in most the time.

Horrors! An entire banana! It’s hard to believe that people are able to put one foot in front of the other for the rest of the day after eating an entire banana in a smoothie. Not to mention the absolute shame they must be feeling.