Don't be fooled by the healthy juices of online bloggers! Juicing like this is not as convenient as drinking Coke

You must have seen many posters on major online platforms such as certain books and blogs promoting homemade healthy freshly squeezed juices.

Let’s not talk about whether there is any suspicion of advertising to promote juicers or blenders, and let’s just talk about this healthy juice.

In recent years, making your own healthy juice instead of takeout juice has quietly become a highly respected healthy lifestyle.

But this so-called healthy lifestyle is actually not that healthy.

If you don't believe it, just listen to what Xiaoze has to say to you!

Juicing fruit does not help nutrients be absorbed better

Some people think that homemade juice is healthy because the nutrients in the fruit are concentrated into essence after juicing, making it easier for the human body to absorb.

In fact, it is quite the opposite. After squeezing the fruit juice, there is no concentrated nutritional essence at all, but a lot of concentrated sugar. Especially after filtering the juice, it is perfectly transformed into a cup of "sugar water" that can be drunk side by side with cola. Even if you don't filter the pomace, the dietary fiber is almost crushed to nothing. At this time, in addition to sugar, the remaining nutrients in the juice may only be the trace nutrients and phytochemicals in the fruit.

Do you think it is not a bad thing to have trace nutrients? Ozawa will cruelly reveal the truth to you. These trace elements are really very trace! Take the vitamin C in the fruit that we value most. It will oxidize rapidly after contacting with oxygen in the air during the juicing process, and the maximum oxidative damage can reach more than 84%! If the juice is not consumed immediately after juicing, the surviving vitamin C will continue to oxidize.

Fruit juice raises blood sugar levels faster than you can imagine

Juicing fruits destroys the original structure of the fruit, and the dietary fiber in it is almost crushed. Without dietary fiber, it is like sugar has lost its "shackles", and sugar will run freely into the blood. As a result, sugar becomes easier to absorb, and blood sugar soars faster.

This type of sugar that can be quickly absorbed by the body is free sugar. The sugar content of some fruit juices can be as high as 23.2g/100g. If a cup of juice is 250ml, the sugar content of this cup is as high as 58g! The "Dietary Guidelines for Chinese Residents" recommends that healthy adults should not consume more than 50g of added sugar per day, and it is best to control it below 25g. In other words, before a glass of juice is finished, the daily sugar intake has exceeded the standard. The impact of free sugar on human health cannot be underestimated. It will cause a large fluctuation in the blood sugar index, causing great pressure on the pancreas and sugar metabolism in the body.

Take oranges as an example. The GI value of a whole orange is about 33-40, but after juicing, the GI value will quickly soar to 46-54. In other words, even if you only eat one orange, drinking orange juice will make the blood sugar in the body rise faster and the insulin level higher. Over time, the pancreas will be overwhelmed, and the terrible type 2 diabetes will come knocking. Don't think that diabetes is an old age disease and has nothing to do with your youth. At present, my country is the world's largest country with diabetes. In recent years, the prevalence of diabetes has been increasing by leaps and bounds, and the age of onset is getting lower and lower. Now many young people are suffering from type 2 diabetes, and many people don't know that they have symptoms of insulin resistance.

Instead of waiting until health problems arise and then starting a cruel decades-long sugar control, it is better to start controlling sugar slowly now.

Fruit juicing puts stress on liver lipid metabolism

A study from the University of Copenhagen in Denmark showed that eating fruit directly would reduce low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL) in the blood. However, after juicing, LDL not only did not decrease, but even slightly increased. Even if the pomace is retained, the effect of lowering LDL will be greatly reduced.

You see, juicing fruits is harmful to your health.

So for healthy adults, if the fruit can be eaten, we don't need to squeeze the juice~

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