Can vegetable drinks really help you lose weight and detoxify? Here comes the truth

Recently, kale drinks have become popular in tea shops, and some businesses claim that these "pure natural" vegetable drinks have significant slimming effects. Is it reliable to drink kale drinks to lose weight? Are there any health risks in long-term drinking?

Can vegetable drinks really help you lose weight and detoxify?

Be careful not to get fatter the more you drink!

Deng Yuhong, director of the Nutrition Department of the Second Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, said that kale is high in dietary fiber and low in calories. It is known as a super vegetable and gives a strong sense of fullness after eating it, but it is a little bitter.

Although it is a healthy vegetable, Deng Yuhong believes that product slogans such as "slimming, light" can easily mislead consumers. "Kale is a bit bitter, and in order to improve the taste, merchants will add white sugar, sucrose, avocado, food additives, etc., which will increase the calorie content and will not only fail to reduce weight, but will also make you gain weight."

△ Kale drink

A nutrition expert explained that when tea shops make fresh tea, they will chop the kale and squeeze out the juice, which will cause a lot of dietary fiber and nutrients to be lost. "Vitamins and antioxidants will indeed be squeezed into the juice, but after squeezing the juice, many fibers and minerals are gone. Many vegetable juices are not tasty after being squeezed, and they need to be seasoned with milk, sugar, etc. In the end, what determines whether the drink you get is healthy or not is not the vegetable juice, but how many other ingredients are added."

Doctor's interpretation:

Kale is not for everyone

According to nutrition experts, if you want to lose weight healthily, you can't just eat kale.

"When we say a vegetable can help you lose weight, whether it's kale or any other vegetable, it means that when you eat it, you reduce your intake of other foods and consume fewer calories overall, which helps you lose weight. It's not like a medicine that can help you lose weight if you eat it while keeping your other lifestyles the same. This is not only not possible with kale, but also with other foods."

Deng Yuhong reminds that even if you want to lose weight, it is not recommended to eat kale every day, and some people are not suitable for long-term consumption.

"Kale is high in vitamin K, which has a coagulation effect. If a patient has heart disease, long-term and large-scale consumption of kale will cause drug resistance. If you have hyperthyroidism or hypothyroidism, do not eat it in large quantities for a long time, as it will inhibit the absorption of iodine by the thyroid hormone," explained Deng Yuhong.

At the same time, some lawyers said that businesses have an obligation to truthfully label the ingredients, calories and additives of beverages. If businesses use vague language or false labels to cover up high sugar and high calories, they will infringe on consumers' right to know.