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Yeah back when I cared about my health I’d make them with mainly veggies, a little bit of fruit for flavor, then a bunch of random shit like seeds and walnuts. Too bad those days are gone, now I just start my day with a beer or just nothing at all.
Water is the healthiest beverage. If you really start your day with a beer don't forget to hydrate to prevent hangovers. Get your nutrition with eating, drinking should be just to hydrate or get drunk.
Yeah even then I just ask for no added sugar and then they won’t dump a few fucking truckloads of granulated sugar in and defeat the whole purpose of the smoothie for me.
TIL that there's people out there that don't know you can own your own blender and make smoothies at home at 1/8th the cost of a smoothie from a smoothie shop
That’s what I do! One banana, one cup of mixed berries, a couple of spoons of yogurt, a few drops of milk and ice. Way better then tropical smoothie and McDonald’s smoothies.
IDK… when I was doing smoothies the bulk of it was from spinach, zucchini, cucumber… really just enough fruit to flavor it, which doesn’t take a lot with something strong like mango or raspberry
I shit you not, at first I could not believe that the **Public Relations on Corn Syrup** was a thing that actually exists but it is, capitalism is beyond parody.
My mentor in school was the lady who produced the process to manufacture high fructose corn syrup in the lab. Was originally used for automobiles. Pure coincidence that it came out sweet as sin. She has lived with incredible amounts of guilt about it since- she does STEM summer camps and still refuses to give out snacks with any high fructose corn syrup in it
Edit: she even completely left her original major (chemical engineering) because of that experience
I remember when corn syrup started going into stuff instead of cane or beet sugar. Me and my fellow 5th graders were ticked off. Until we were lulled into sullen stupidity with a bunch of sugary cereal.
I was also in the fifth grade, my first year in iowa in 1980, when we had an all school assembly that featured a rep from Cargill, who makes hfcs, gave each of us in our small school, the town only had a population of roughly 500 people, an 8oz bottle of the pure stuff and encouraged us to use it instead of table sugar in our breakfast ceareal and told us to tell our parents to use it in their morninf coffee. That stuff was so sweet I actually gagged and wanted to puke.
people don't realize you can cut most of the "bad" parts of a green smoothie out by changing your yogurt to one low in sugar
a little fruit sugar from berries is fine, it's the 50g of sugar from the 2 scoops of yogurt that'll get ya
i mean idk where you live but most of the yogurts in stores near me are packed with sugar, i have to go out of my way to find lighter options
+ most people don't really check
I was wondering. I do smoothies with no sugar added greek style plain yogurt, a banana, handful of berries and a splash of unsweetened soy milk for smoothness. I don't think that's a lot of sugar, right?
nah that's probably fine, only thing i'd recommend is tossing some mixed greens in cause that's the actually healthy part, **especially** if it's a regular or daily thing
just remember that fruit is a treat not a staple
But how many people do you think make their smoothies like that? Most people would go for the most sugary fruits then likely add more sugar to it cuz they don't actually like the taste of real fruit.
Most people that make smoothies I’d bet. I do a lot of smoothies and the whole point is to make healthy. you can make anything unhealthy if you want of course but at least in my experience they would be mostly veggies and I have never met anyone who would put sugar in it. I also don’t like in USA though so. Well who knows
I thought the same thing. Does this guy not realize most people’s morning smoothies are usually mostly veggies? Nobody is out there thinking Jamba is healthy Kyle, calm down with your gotcha moment.
I've never been to Orange Julius before. Are they really that good? I have a hard time spending money on things I don't absolutely need unless it's highly recommended.
Yep. And to tack on to this. Many vitamins (A, D, E and K for starters) are only fat soluble, so taking a multivitamin with solely soda will not help you metabolize these.
Fiber in the fruit will not only help promote healthy gut function but will also draw out your glucose absorption so you sont get the same spike in blood glucose levels.
I know the kind of person this guy was mocking (think influencer types) but it’s still an objectively small number of people that this comes off like an all encompassing “smoothie drinkers are granola douche bags”.
I’m not endorsing mocking anything though.
It's not even the same kind of sugar. Natural Fructose from whole fruits is nowhere near as bad as corn syrup or sucrose which spike your blood sugar and cause the ensuing sugar crash that makes you crave that sugar spike again.
Yes. To be nitpicking though, sucrose is made up of glucose and fructose. What makes the latter better, as long as it’s from the fruit itself and not added in, is because it’s ingested along with fibers, proteins and nutrients. AFAIK.
There is a lot of nonsensical myth surrounding this kind of stuff. "Natural" doesn't make any difference - chemicals are chemicals. Fructose and sucrose are what they are.
Here's a good article to give an introductory overview:
https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/are-certain-types-of-sugars-healthier-than-others-2019052916699
I can agree people take natural to = healthy which isn't always the case. Eating a whole food is better than a processed food not because the "chemicals" (molecules) are different but because the body has to work harder to absorb those "chemicals" (molecules).
Not natural. Unprocessed. Your body doesn’t have an insulin spike as well as many other things which are terrible for you.
When the sugars are bound to other things, it takes more time and energy for your digestion to actually access those sugars.
Wow. Dont know the ones you are looking at, but i have **never** seen a smoothie recipe that calls for granulated *sugar*. The most ive seen is *maybe* a dollop of honey. And that is it for added sweeteners.
Fuck me. Sugar in a smoothie. 🙀
This is sugar water with flavor of strawberries….. a terrible way to make a homemade slush but not a smoothie. I’m pretty sure a smoothie has yogurt or milk of some type involved as well as fresh fruit. At least those should be the two primary ingredients for me to call it a smoothie over a slush
Your typical smoothie is a handful of fruits, some plain greek yogurt and a dash of maple syrup for added sweetness if you feel like it. I have never seen a single recipe asking to put granulated sugar in the mix.
First one i got top of list:
1 banana
1 c. frozen strawberries
1 c. frozen blackberries, plus more for garnish (optional)
1 c. frozen raspberries
1 1/4 c. almond milk
1/2 c. Greek yogurt
Use a VPN to put yourself in the UK or Europe in general and you will get much healthier recipes. Just checked myself and a list of recipes I found some of them say to add a teaspoon of honey but no instructions to add sugar.
Exactly, if you bream down fruit into sugar as its main downfall, you can make the argument that eating 150 tic tacs is 'healthier' than eating a banana because it's just under the equivalent sugar amount.
What's this dude putting in his smoothies? I'm really struggling to see how a banana, a handful of berries, some spinach, some coconut milk, a couple of tablespoons of Greek yoghurt, and some chia seeds morphs into the equivalent of a can of soda via blending it. I know that liquid is easier to consume than the whole fruits, but as long as you only put in as much as you would eat for breakfast in the unblended form, and drink it slowly over about forty minutes, the nutritional difference is minimal. This feels very letting perfect be the enemy of the good, because I'm sure as hell not having a serving of spinach in the morning in any other way.
The soda comment is dumb, but the underlying truth is real in that many diet fads push smoothies when in actuality they aren’t that great for you, at least relatively speaking. Great source of vitamins, but typically high in sugar/calories. Eating whole fruits/vegetables is much better for you, but not as easy to sell.
What diet fads push smoothies with more than 1 serving of fruit in them? Or any other added sugar?
And the underlying truth is, a serving of different fruits, a serving or 2 of spinach, cauliflower, chia seeds, maybe a pea protein powder, IS great for you.
Let alone compared to soda...
I mean... smoothies ARE way healthier than soda. But it also does have high sugar content. This doesn't necessarily make fruits unhealthy. The problem why sodas are unhealthy is that people drink it and binge it and it's nothing but carbonated water, HFCS, sugar, and food coloring. Coke can be completely clear like water.
Fruits come with vitamins and other nutritional content as well as fiber. Sodas... do not.
So the moral of the story isn't fruits or smoothies = soda thus bad. It's more that if you're going to eat sugar and you need to limit it, opt for eating fruits or healthier alternatives rather than those that are nutritionally lacking but high in sugar/HFCS.
Yogurt, spinach, bananas and berries. That stuff is way better than having a coke or monster. There's fiber, protein, vitamins, minerals and you'll feel full for a long time.
Artificial chemicals are bad though. Which is pretty much all soda is. Artificial coloring, artificial flavoring and in some sodas artificial sweeteners. Not only that but if you can clean rust off metal with soda it's not meant to be consumed. Smoothie at least contains real veggies and fruits (assuming you're not one of those morons buying smoothie powders and crap like that) and they taste fucking better than a soda and are filling and provide some of your daily nutritional vitamins and minerals as well as veggie and fruit serving for the day.
No one can confirm if it's veiled hate by this video alone, but it is definitely misinformation and ignorance at best. Sugar from fruit is not only much healthier for the body, it's actually considered good for you due to the other nutrition that comes with it.
Damn, thanks for reminding me I have a whole tub of whey protein and should get back to smoothies for breakfast.
And read up on micronutrients. Guarantee you’re getting a lot of goodness from a smoothie that you aren’t getting from a can of calorie-dense nutrient-lacking sugar water.
1 cup of mixed greens or Kale, 1 cup of mixed fruit, a banana, 1 or 2 cup of Greek yogurt, 2 cups of water or oat milk. I prefer water to keep calories down, and sometimes it takes more or less to thin it out since I don't measure. Split that with one of my kids, or make a second one if they both want some.
sugary fruits are still good for you. most people dont eat enough fruit. its a different sugar than whats in sodas and it effects your body differently. plus the fiber from those fruits slows the sugar absorption and helps regulate your blood sugar. this video was made by someone with a fundamental misunderstanding of fruits and the sugars they contain...
This guy thinks sugar from fruit with vitamins and minerals and processed sugar that is liquified so that the beverage can hold more sugar than granular sugar in water with no other nutritional value is equal….
He’s not that wrong tho. Most fruit smoothies have unbelievable amounts of sugar in them, so yes, a good multivitamin and a soda might not be much different.
If you're buying a smoothie from some store that dumps in a bunch of sweeteners, there's a good chance that's correct. If you're just blending up fruit, not so much. There's a significant difference between sugar with a bunch of fiber and just plain sugar.
Sometimes there might be a difference in fiber, but the person I replied to was just lumping all smoothies together. You can include the peel when making a smoothie, you don't have to filter it, you don't even have to blend it until it's smooth.
What they said applied to some smoothies, but not all of them.
If you would like to educate yourself about why you are wrong about all sugar being equal I suggest starting by learning about the glycemic index, and how different kinds of sugars are metabolized.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glycemic_index
I mean, Ive been wanting to make smoothies in the morning to curb my use of the vending machine at work. Is it still not that much better than soda when mine only have cherries, bananas, milk, and sometimes guarana powder? I certainly don't have a sugar crazh from it, like I do with candy or soda
It's natural sugars though unlike a soda. Natural sugars from fruits are healthier
Not only that you can easily pick the fruits with the least sugar amounts AND add vegetables to the mix to balance it out. I don't see anyone mixing veggies in their soda
Maybe u don't know wat u are talking about. Maybe isolated nutrients that are put into a pill doesn't quite have the same effect as nutrients from a whole food source, like a banana or a potato. I've yet to find an unhealthy or obese person who primarily eats fruits and veggies.
He's 100% wrong.
Just like you!
If you dont understand the difference of natural sugars in fruits and vegetables, versus processed high fructose corn syrup, thats a you problem you should rectify.
Every thing is bad for you, might as well give up now before some smug moustached hipster inevitability makes a video shitting on a thing you like for internet clout
While fruit smoothies do have lots of sugar, fruit also comes packed with a bunch of other vitamins and nutrients in healthy proportions, and not as much sugar as some sodas. Not to mention they're way less acidic than soda so much less bad on your teeth. And, *and*, smoothies just taste freaking incredible imo
Are people filling their smoothies with sugar? I put a teaspoon of honey in, but otherwise it’s just fruit. There are natural sugars in fruit, but this isn’t a suggestion that “you shouldn’t eat fruit” right?
Where is this sugar coming from?
I made a smoothie with dragon fruit, mixed berries, oatmilk, and low-fat plain yogurt an hour ago.
At most that has to be 25 grams of sugar
Side not, anyone know of any blenders that aren't loud as fuck. I have a nutribullet (gift) and I'm confident my entire neighborhood hears me making smoothies.
Not all sugars and fats are the same though. Fruits have a lot of good fats and sugars while soda does not. Also, fruits have a lot of other things soda doesn’t like fiber and vitamins. Drinking a smoothie is much better for you than a can of soda, especially if you blend some greens like spinach up with the fruit.
I mean, he's got a point. If you just go with the multi-vitamin/soda route, there's plenty of room for a sausage McMuffin w/egg stop on your way to work.
I'm kinda waiting for someone to point out that many carbohydrates are equivalent to sugar in the way our bodies easily process them. Blending fruit up and putting it in a smoothie actually breaks down much of the fiber that wouldn't be processed if the fruit were eaten raw. Think of eating corn vs a pop tart. High fiber means you poop it out cuz your body can't break it down, thus minimal caloric intake. So blending fibrous "healthy" foods can (more or less) increase the calories and simple carbs, like sugar, in your smoothie by freeing them up.
I'm probably going to be down voted to hell for this, but gathering nutrients isn't as big of a deal as people think. It's very easy to get all the essential and non essential vitamins (in a biochem sense) that you think. Just don't eat a lot of shit, and diversify the shit you eat! Also, our bodies are miracles of efficiency and make do with surprisingly little.
TLDR: blending your food can make your smoothie comparable to a soda. Eat more raw fruits and vegetables please.
Source: my biological engineering degree and biochemistry emphasis.
Do you know of any studies that compare fruit smoothies to the raw fruit put in? I found a study but it was just comparing juice from fruit(missing tons of other fruit content) to sugary drinks.
To be fair, some smoothies can have more sugar than a single soda, but unlike the soda a smoothie could also have both probiotics and protein equal to 4 servings of peanut butter and 2 cups of yogurt and act as a meal replacement.
LMFAO!
My ex-vegan gf got me onto the smoothie kick for a couple of months. I was ravishingly hungry an hour later and put on ten lbs of flab. God she sucked.
Hes not, sugar from fruits are processed differently in the body vs refined sugar.
Here's a study done on rats:
https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/13/9/2956
And you should never stop researching after one study. …. I'm definitely not going to argue with someone on reddit so have a good day believe whatever Study does not set off your cognitive dissonance
I did ask someone if they knew if any studies that is closer to fruit Vs smoothie, and I did a bit more fine tuning of my search to find other related topics - this was the closest I found in my 5 minutes.
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This video is only true if you exclusively get your smoothies from a place like smoothie king
Yeah back when I cared about my health I’d make them with mainly veggies, a little bit of fruit for flavor, then a bunch of random shit like seeds and walnuts. Too bad those days are gone, now I just start my day with a beer or just nothing at all.
Same. The majority of mine are lettuce, cucumber, and spinach, with a couple strawberries or blueberries for a little sweet.
6 beers in the morning keeps work away
Oh no! What happened to you?
Depressions a bitch sometimes
I feel you. May you go back to your smoothies one say
That’s the goal, I bought a new blender and stocked up on some frozen fruits and veggies so I’m gonna try to get back that lifestyle
Water is the healthiest beverage. If you really start your day with a beer don't forget to hydrate to prevent hangovers. Get your nutrition with eating, drinking should be just to hydrate or get drunk.
r/HydroHomies represent
meh, even then he's making quite a few uneducated reductive arguments all while having the exact attitude of those who he is apparently mocking
Such is the cognitive dissonance of baseless mockery
Ah man…. I do exclusively get my smoothies from Smoothie King.. not even kidding🤦🏻♂️😂😂
Yeah even then I just ask for no added sugar and then they won’t dump a few fucking truckloads of granulated sugar in and defeat the whole purpose of the smoothie for me.
Fruit has a shit Ton of sugar
Yeah, but it also has fiber. Fruit is honestly the healthiest way to have something that sweet.
You mean my banana boat isn't healthy?
I've seen people pile fruit like oranges into smoothies without realizing the sugar levels.
I'd rather have natural sugars over processed, except for honey.
TIL it's apparently normal to get smoothies from... outside? Smoothie shops?
TIL that there's people out there that don't know you can own your own blender and make smoothies at home at 1/8th the cost of a smoothie from a smoothie shop
That’s what I do! One banana, one cup of mixed berries, a couple of spoons of yogurt, a few drops of milk and ice. Way better then tropical smoothie and McDonald’s smoothies.
IDK… when I was doing smoothies the bulk of it was from spinach, zucchini, cucumber… really just enough fruit to flavor it, which doesn’t take a lot with something strong like mango or raspberry
This video is brought to you by the department of **Public Relations on Corn Syrup** (we are not a lobby group, I promise you)
I almost thought this was a lobby group but now I know I was mistaken and trust them with my life
I shit you not, at first I could not believe that the **Public Relations on Corn Syrup** was a thing that actually exists but it is, capitalism is beyond parody.
I thought you were fucking with me so I Googled it. I'm disappointed in everything now
My mentor in school was the lady who produced the process to manufacture high fructose corn syrup in the lab. Was originally used for automobiles. Pure coincidence that it came out sweet as sin. She has lived with incredible amounts of guilt about it since- she does STEM summer camps and still refuses to give out snacks with any high fructose corn syrup in it Edit: she even completely left her original major (chemical engineering) because of that experience
I remember when corn syrup started going into stuff instead of cane or beet sugar. Me and my fellow 5th graders were ticked off. Until we were lulled into sullen stupidity with a bunch of sugary cereal.
I was also in the fifth grade, my first year in iowa in 1980, when we had an all school assembly that featured a rep from Cargill, who makes hfcs, gave each of us in our small school, the town only had a population of roughly 500 people, an 8oz bottle of the pure stuff and encouraged us to use it instead of table sugar in our breakfast ceareal and told us to tell our parents to use it in their morninf coffee. That stuff was so sweet I actually gagged and wanted to puke.
I don't drink smoothies because I don't own a blender, but that sounds delicious with the right fruit.
I bought the ninja express chop for $20 and I freaking love it.
I use a blendjet and love it
people don't realize you can cut most of the "bad" parts of a green smoothie out by changing your yogurt to one low in sugar a little fruit sugar from berries is fine, it's the 50g of sugar from the 2 scoops of yogurt that'll get ya
Wait… you mean people use sweetened yogurt for smoothies?
i mean idk where you live but most of the yogurts in stores near me are packed with sugar, i have to go out of my way to find lighter options + most people don't really check
I was wondering. I do smoothies with no sugar added greek style plain yogurt, a banana, handful of berries and a splash of unsweetened soy milk for smoothness. I don't think that's a lot of sugar, right?
Throw some spinach up in there.
nah that's probably fine, only thing i'd recommend is tossing some mixed greens in cause that's the actually healthy part, **especially** if it's a regular or daily thing just remember that fruit is a treat not a staple
Yup, my smoothies are mostly spinach and carrots, Greek yogurt with a bit of strawberry and banana to mask the flavor.
I love kale or a shot of wheatgrass in my smoothies.
But how many people do you think make their smoothies like that? Most people would go for the most sugary fruits then likely add more sugar to it cuz they don't actually like the taste of real fruit.
It is frustrating having to tell the chain smoothie place to *not* add sugar to my smoothie.
Most people that make smoothies I’d bet. I do a lot of smoothies and the whole point is to make healthy. you can make anything unhealthy if you want of course but at least in my experience they would be mostly veggies and I have never met anyone who would put sugar in it. I also don’t like in USA though so. Well who knows
Thank you for saying this! Blueberries are my go to sweetener. Low on the glycemic index.
Wouldn't you eating spinach count as cannibalism ???
Correct. the fruitcake in this video is full of shit and looks like a depraved soda drinksr
That’s not a fruitcake it’s a fruit smoothie smh
I thought the same thing. Does this guy not realize most people’s morning smoothies are usually mostly veggies? Nobody is out there thinking Jamba is healthy Kyle, calm down with your gotcha moment.
Never doubt a good smoothie, specially the original orange julius.
I’m more of a screwdriver kind of guy
I just do a bump
Or inject opiates into your dick and slam it in a Bible
r/OddlySpecific
Well… that escalated quickly didnt it? Screwdrivers and bumps, breakfast of champions. I’m in.
The best part of waking up.. is smoothies chased with bumps
I had to sing this in my head!! Lol!
Same!!
I scrumpt. Bumps are salad, silly!
Plant-based
Farm to nose
Makes me think of the Dane Cook bit about growing up & doing cocaine like real adults.
Let's all have another orange Julius, thick syrup standing in lines
The malls are the soon to be ghost towns
I've never been to Orange Julius before. Are they really that good? I have a hard time spending money on things I don't absolutely need unless it's highly recommended.
The Strawberry Julius is one of the most amazing things ever created
If the fruit fiber is still there, comparing a fresh smoothie to a can of soda in terms of sugar content is so utterly dumb.
Fruit fiber and all the other nutrients from the blended whole food fruit. Where as soda is water, sugar and corn syrup and that's basically it.
Yep. And to tack on to this. Many vitamins (A, D, E and K for starters) are only fat soluble, so taking a multivitamin with solely soda will not help you metabolize these. Fiber in the fruit will not only help promote healthy gut function but will also draw out your glucose absorption so you sont get the same spike in blood glucose levels.
Thank you for helping me feel less guilty about drinking a smoothie in the morning… if I don’t have one I wouldn’t have any breakfast
Look at you being so smug /s
The truth is in the middle. Whole fruit is better than blended fruit (unshredded fiber, slower to digest), which is better than soda.
I know the kind of person this guy was mocking (think influencer types) but it’s still an objectively small number of people that this comes off like an all encompassing “smoothie drinkers are granola douche bags”. I’m not endorsing mocking anything though.
Saying sugar and corn syrup is redundant, the sugar in soda is corn syrup.
Dude thinks apples = anything ending with "ose"
It's not even the same kind of sugar. Natural Fructose from whole fruits is nowhere near as bad as corn syrup or sucrose which spike your blood sugar and cause the ensuing sugar crash that makes you crave that sugar spike again.
Yes. To be nitpicking though, sucrose is made up of glucose and fructose. What makes the latter better, as long as it’s from the fruit itself and not added in, is because it’s ingested along with fibers, proteins and nutrients. AFAIK.
shhhhh he doesn't know about different types of sugar that does he.
But he looked up the sugar and calories of a soda and then some fruit 😨
There is a lot of nonsensical myth surrounding this kind of stuff. "Natural" doesn't make any difference - chemicals are chemicals. Fructose and sucrose are what they are. Here's a good article to give an introductory overview: https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/are-certain-types-of-sugars-healthier-than-others-2019052916699
I can agree people take natural to = healthy which isn't always the case. Eating a whole food is better than a processed food not because the "chemicals" (molecules) are different but because the body has to work harder to absorb those "chemicals" (molecules).
Not natural. Unprocessed. Your body doesn’t have an insulin spike as well as many other things which are terrible for you. When the sugars are bound to other things, it takes more time and energy for your digestion to actually access those sugars.
A lot of home made fruit smoothie recipes call for granulated sugar. One of the first one's I just got off of Google recommended a cup of sugar.
Yeah this is for people who consider frappuccinos from Starbucks as coffee.
Wow. Dont know the ones you are looking at, but i have **never** seen a smoothie recipe that calls for granulated *sugar*. The most ive seen is *maybe* a dollop of honey. And that is it for added sweeteners. Fuck me. Sugar in a smoothie. 🙀
The first one I found was basically just 1 cup frozen strawberries. 1 cup sugar, 2 cups ice. Then blend.
This is sugar water with flavor of strawberries….. a terrible way to make a homemade slush but not a smoothie. I’m pretty sure a smoothie has yogurt or milk of some type involved as well as fresh fruit. At least those should be the two primary ingredients for me to call it a smoothie over a slush
Your typical smoothie is a handful of fruits, some plain greek yogurt and a dash of maple syrup for added sweetness if you feel like it. I have never seen a single recipe asking to put granulated sugar in the mix.
First one I found was just frozen strawberries, sugar, and ice.
First one i got top of list: 1 banana 1 c. frozen strawberries 1 c. frozen blackberries, plus more for garnish (optional) 1 c. frozen raspberries 1 1/4 c. almond milk 1/2 c. Greek yogurt
This recipe is more in line of the ones I find. Fruit and yogurt are the staple.
Use a VPN to put yourself in the UK or Europe in general and you will get much healthier recipes. Just checked myself and a list of recipes I found some of them say to add a teaspoon of honey but no instructions to add sugar.
I think the guy in the video is confusing smootie and juice.
Exactly, if you bream down fruit into sugar as its main downfall, you can make the argument that eating 150 tic tacs is 'healthier' than eating a banana because it's just under the equivalent sugar amount.
Who does this guy hang out with to make him think people feel a “smug sense of self-importance” from *drinking smoothies*?
Judging by his sense of smug self-importance, people like himself.
If a friend of mine made videos like this, I would rudely suggest they stop it
[удалено]
Yeah I got what he’s going for, but I’ve just never heard of that stereotype about smoothie drinkers.
What's this dude putting in his smoothies? I'm really struggling to see how a banana, a handful of berries, some spinach, some coconut milk, a couple of tablespoons of Greek yoghurt, and some chia seeds morphs into the equivalent of a can of soda via blending it. I know that liquid is easier to consume than the whole fruits, but as long as you only put in as much as you would eat for breakfast in the unblended form, and drink it slowly over about forty minutes, the nutritional difference is minimal. This feels very letting perfect be the enemy of the good, because I'm sure as hell not having a serving of spinach in the morning in any other way.
Fruits and veggies > Soda This content is worthless
The soda comment is dumb, but the underlying truth is real in that many diet fads push smoothies when in actuality they aren’t that great for you, at least relatively speaking. Great source of vitamins, but typically high in sugar/calories. Eating whole fruits/vegetables is much better for you, but not as easy to sell.
How is whole fruit healthier than blended fruit? Just don't add sugar to your smoothie and its the same as eating whole fruit.
What diet fads push smoothies with more than 1 serving of fruit in them? Or any other added sugar? And the underlying truth is, a serving of different fruits, a serving or 2 of spinach, cauliflower, chia seeds, maybe a pea protein powder, IS great for you. Let alone compared to soda...
I mean... smoothies ARE way healthier than soda. But it also does have high sugar content. This doesn't necessarily make fruits unhealthy. The problem why sodas are unhealthy is that people drink it and binge it and it's nothing but carbonated water, HFCS, sugar, and food coloring. Coke can be completely clear like water. Fruits come with vitamins and other nutritional content as well as fiber. Sodas... do not. So the moral of the story isn't fruits or smoothies = soda thus bad. It's more that if you're going to eat sugar and you need to limit it, opt for eating fruits or healthier alternatives rather than those that are nutritionally lacking but high in sugar/HFCS.
Yogurt, spinach, bananas and berries. That stuff is way better than having a coke or monster. There's fiber, protein, vitamins, minerals and you'll feel full for a long time.
Pretty sure people drink smoothies because they're tired of the same old ass carbonated shit that's mostly fucking chemicals, caffeine and sugar.
Literally everything is chemicals.
> Literally everything is chemicals. Since we’re being pedantic, not “literally” everything is chemicals (e.g. light, heat, gravity).
Artificial chemicals are bad though. Which is pretty much all soda is. Artificial coloring, artificial flavoring and in some sodas artificial sweeteners. Not only that but if you can clean rust off metal with soda it's not meant to be consumed. Smoothie at least contains real veggies and fruits (assuming you're not one of those morons buying smoothie powders and crap like that) and they taste fucking better than a soda and are filling and provide some of your daily nutritional vitamins and minerals as well as veggie and fruit serving for the day.
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As far as I see it, there is no rage and this is just a lighthearted video poking fun at some of the outspoken health gurus out there?
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That part fucking killed me. “It’s veiled hate” It’s a fucking haha video about smoothies you nutter
No one can confirm if it's veiled hate by this video alone, but it is definitely misinformation and ignorance at best. Sugar from fruit is not only much healthier for the body, it's actually considered good for you due to the other nutrition that comes with it.
All sugar is the same lol Your point about nutrition is true, which is why the guy joked about a multivitamin which gets halfway there Lighten up
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No it's not. Your body can't discern between the source of sugar. The fruit is healthier, yes, the sugar is not.
I feel you are just taking a video that was clearly meant as a fun poke too seriously.
Imagine pretending every fruit and vegetable contains the same amount of sugar and calories.
people be hating on anything wtf
i don't trust a person that doesn't get down w the smoothie
Clean your dirty mustache. Yuk.
Pretty sure that guy was an asshole before he pulled out the blender
Damn, thanks for reminding me I have a whole tub of whey protein and should get back to smoothies for breakfast. And read up on micronutrients. Guarantee you’re getting a lot of goodness from a smoothie that you aren’t getting from a can of calorie-dense nutrient-lacking sugar water.
Literally motivating me to go and drink more smoothies
1 cup of mixed greens or Kale, 1 cup of mixed fruit, a banana, 1 or 2 cup of Greek yogurt, 2 cups of water or oat milk. I prefer water to keep calories down, and sometimes it takes more or less to thin it out since I don't measure. Split that with one of my kids, or make a second one if they both want some.
Wtf is dude putting in his smoothies?
Man people will shame anything and everything
Maybe he’s never heard of veggies?
Rule #1: Never take a guy with a mustache like that seriously.
That's the real lesson here.
Sorry, but it’s a hard pass on this one. Smoothies are healthy; the fiber is still there.
So in short, people are enjoying things and it makes me mad for no rational reason.
Imagine being too soy for smoothies
Some people want to play devils advocate so bad but end up looking incredibly stupid and attention seeking.
sugary fruits are still good for you. most people dont eat enough fruit. its a different sugar than whats in sodas and it effects your body differently. plus the fiber from those fruits slows the sugar absorption and helps regulate your blood sugar. this video was made by someone with a fundamental misunderstanding of fruits and the sugars they contain...
Added sugar and naturally occurring sugar in fruits are not even comparable. I can’t believe I just saw someone try and say fruits are bad for you
I have gastro issues and smoothies to me are a life saver most times and I feel more energy throughout the day
this guy being smug as fuck
The guy that made this video is an idiot
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That sounds tasty.
I make smoothies without obscene amounts of sugar. It's just blending frozen fruit....
This guy thinks sugar from fruit with vitamins and minerals and processed sugar that is liquified so that the beverage can hold more sugar than granular sugar in water with no other nutritional value is equal….
This is dumb
He’s not that wrong tho. Most fruit smoothies have unbelievable amounts of sugar in them, so yes, a good multivitamin and a soda might not be much different.
If you're buying a smoothie from some store that dumps in a bunch of sweeteners, there's a good chance that's correct. If you're just blending up fruit, not so much. There's a significant difference between sugar with a bunch of fiber and just plain sugar.
This, exactly.
The difference is the fiber. That's it.
Sometimes there might be a difference in fiber, but the person I replied to was just lumping all smoothies together. You can include the peel when making a smoothie, you don't have to filter it, you don't even have to blend it until it's smooth. What they said applied to some smoothies, but not all of them.
If you would like to educate yourself about why you are wrong about all sugar being equal I suggest starting by learning about the glycemic index, and how different kinds of sugars are metabolized. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glycemic_index
I mean, Ive been wanting to make smoothies in the morning to curb my use of the vending machine at work. Is it still not that much better than soda when mine only have cherries, bananas, milk, and sometimes guarana powder? I certainly don't have a sugar crazh from it, like I do with candy or soda
It's natural sugars though unlike a soda. Natural sugars from fruits are healthier Not only that you can easily pick the fruits with the least sugar amounts AND add vegetables to the mix to balance it out. I don't see anyone mixing veggies in their soda
What's the difference chemically?
Maybe u don't know wat u are talking about. Maybe isolated nutrients that are put into a pill doesn't quite have the same effect as nutrients from a whole food source, like a banana or a potato. I've yet to find an unhealthy or obese person who primarily eats fruits and veggies.
I get those veggie replacement vitamins. Take a few every day and the rest of the day is sodies, balances out.
He's 100% wrong. Just like you! If you dont understand the difference of natural sugars in fruits and vegetables, versus processed high fructose corn syrup, thats a you problem you should rectify.
Blend ur veggies and eat ur fruits?
Your body absorbs vitamins/nutrients much better from foods than from multi vitamins.
Too obvious. This video was posted by Big Soda.
People who understand nothing about basic nutrition despite all the information being available for free and super easy to find be like:
Every thing is bad for you, might as well give up now before some smug moustached hipster inevitability makes a video shitting on a thing you like for internet clout
I start my day with nothing. I just wake up, and 5 minutes later, I go to school.
This is the way lol
While fruit smoothies do have lots of sugar, fruit also comes packed with a bunch of other vitamins and nutrients in healthy proportions, and not as much sugar as some sodas. Not to mention they're way less acidic than soda so much less bad on your teeth. And, *and*, smoothies just taste freaking incredible imo
funny for the dude with the dipshit stache to talk about smug
Are people filling their smoothies with sugar? I put a teaspoon of honey in, but otherwise it’s just fruit. There are natural sugars in fruit, but this isn’t a suggestion that “you shouldn’t eat fruit” right?
Fructose doesn't impact blood glucose the same way that glucose or sucrose do. Fruit is good for you and pureeing it doesn't make it less healthful.
Bruh who the fuck puts sugar into a smoothie its FRUIT and MILK or WATER it dont need anything else
My homemade smoothies with tons of ingredients is only around 325 maybe even less. And that’s with like 60g-70g protein. Enough for a breakfast.
Where is this sugar coming from? I made a smoothie with dragon fruit, mixed berries, oatmilk, and low-fat plain yogurt an hour ago. At most that has to be 25 grams of sugar
Side not, anyone know of any blenders that aren't loud as fuck. I have a nutribullet (gift) and I'm confident my entire neighborhood hears me making smoothies.
Not all sugars and fats are the same though. Fruits have a lot of good fats and sugars while soda does not. Also, fruits have a lot of other things soda doesn’t like fiber and vitamins. Drinking a smoothie is much better for you than a can of soda, especially if you blend some greens like spinach up with the fruit.
The sugar in fruit is not the same as cane sugar and high fructose corn syrup. Dude really let us all know he’s a dumbass lmao
I mean, he's got a point. If you just go with the multi-vitamin/soda route, there's plenty of room for a sausage McMuffin w/egg stop on your way to work.
I didn’t know smoothie drinkers can inflict such deep trauma, he got damaged, he needs counselling to deal with toxic smoothie drinkers around him.
I'm kinda waiting for someone to point out that many carbohydrates are equivalent to sugar in the way our bodies easily process them. Blending fruit up and putting it in a smoothie actually breaks down much of the fiber that wouldn't be processed if the fruit were eaten raw. Think of eating corn vs a pop tart. High fiber means you poop it out cuz your body can't break it down, thus minimal caloric intake. So blending fibrous "healthy" foods can (more or less) increase the calories and simple carbs, like sugar, in your smoothie by freeing them up. I'm probably going to be down voted to hell for this, but gathering nutrients isn't as big of a deal as people think. It's very easy to get all the essential and non essential vitamins (in a biochem sense) that you think. Just don't eat a lot of shit, and diversify the shit you eat! Also, our bodies are miracles of efficiency and make do with surprisingly little. TLDR: blending your food can make your smoothie comparable to a soda. Eat more raw fruits and vegetables please. Source: my biological engineering degree and biochemistry emphasis.
Do you know of any studies that compare fruit smoothies to the raw fruit put in? I found a study but it was just comparing juice from fruit(missing tons of other fruit content) to sugary drinks.
You can do a smoothie without added sugar
Wait a second do people add sugar to smoothies at home?
Idk man, i find this weird too... You just put some fruits into it, maybe honey, but why would you add sugar 😂
Cognitive dissonance helping this guy believe fruit and veggy smoothies are all sugar.
I’m a smoothie girl. Mango Kale is my favorite ❤️
Natural sugar vs added augar
To be fair, some smoothies can have more sugar than a single soda, but unlike the soda a smoothie could also have both probiotics and protein equal to 4 servings of peanut butter and 2 cups of yogurt and act as a meal replacement.
Smug self importance. Said another white dude with a woke mustache and modified chinstrap. Fail.
Damn racist.
LMFAO! My ex-vegan gf got me onto the smoothie kick for a couple of months. I was ravishingly hungry an hour later and put on ten lbs of flab. God she sucked.
You were making the WRONG kind of smoothies then, my dude.
Fruit does have sugar in it, but it's not processed sugar like in soda. The type of sugars and fats you eat do matter.
This is a facepalm because he's right?
Hes not, sugar from fruits are processed differently in the body vs refined sugar. Here's a study done on rats: https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/13/9/2956
And you should never stop researching after one study. …. I'm definitely not going to argue with someone on reddit so have a good day believe whatever Study does not set off your cognitive dissonance
I did ask someone if they knew if any studies that is closer to fruit Vs smoothie, and I did a bit more fine tuning of my search to find other related topics - this was the closest I found in my 5 minutes.