Is digesting fruit in liquid form as beneficial as solid fruit?

Answer 1

No for the simple fact that the fibre is usually partially dispensed with.

You can however make fruit smoothies with a stick blender, that way you are getting the whole fruit.

Try this one:

1 Mango
2 Bananas
5 Strawberries
1 Mandarin
1 cup Milk or Soya milk
1 tbspn Grecian style yoghurt
1 tspn Manuka 10+ Honey
1/2 tspn Vanilla extract (natural)


Whiz all the ingredients together in a large container then serve into tall glasses immediately.

This will give your fruit, vit C, & a quarter of your fibre quota for the day, and its tastes divine :-)))))

Answer 2

Some say that juicing makes all the nutrients from the fruit more easily absorbed by the body...and also you throw the whole food in there so it gets everything out of the peel, the seeds, the pith (white stuff inbetween fruit and peel on citrus), everything you would probably trim away and refuse to eat, which is where the real nutrition of the fruit is supposed to be. Plus you can mix and match and make tasty little wonder potions and mocktails.

But all the stuff that you might? eat (speaking of the muck left behind in the juicer)....contains a lot of fiber which is the healthiest TYPE of fiber to help your digestion and give you the most comfortable poo...not splattering but not blowing out veins in your forehead.

So as usual...a little of both is best.

As far as the food pyramid goes, a serving is a serving is a serving, liquid or solid. But the problem with the food pyramid is that these kinds of issues aren't addressed by it...and govt guidelines for nutrition are always changing, almost trendy.

Answer 3

Solid fruits will give you added roughage/fiber to your diet. Fruit juices are usually cut with water, sugars and sometimes vitamins added. Stick to the real stuff.

Answer 4

***it lacks the fibre so no.