Smoothies and fruit juice are both an excellent way to provide you with the recommended five a day fruit or vegetable intake in a healthy drink. It is proven than taken in these forms they can help to control weight as well as benefitting you with calcium and vitamins which helps feed your brain too.
Fruit Juice
Fruit juice is literally that. The juice from fruit. Although it is a healthy drink it contains no pulp. The pulp is the most beneficial part of the fruit which contains the most vitamins and when making a fruit juice, this gets thrown away. The other good and bad thing about a fruit juice is:
a) The fruit juice contains natural sugars which are good for the body.
b) These sugars can be poor for the teeth
Smoothies
Smoothies are made up of a combination of fruit, natural yoghurt, juice and ice blended together into a thicker drink as it includes the pulp too. Consequently because it retains the pulp, the smoothie drink is actually more beneficial than the fruit juice drink.
Blenders
Purchasing a fruit juice blender is good as it can help you to prepare your own choice of fresh fruit for your own fruit drink rather than buying a carton of fruit juice. Remember, no pulp is usually involved in a fruit juice drink except maybe a few segment bits.
Smoothie Blenders
Buying a smoothie blender is a much better investment. Not only can you make any type of chosen fruit smoothie which includes the pulp, but you can blend vegetables too.
Firstly this is excellent when blending babies food which could come from a small portion of your dinner, freshly prepared and blended down into a pulp. This can be fresher than the baby foods sat on the supermarket shelf which does not taste so appetizing.
Secondly blending a portion of a freshly made dinner can help those who struggle to swallow solid food including many elderly people. This keeps the taste and all the vitamins and nutrients in the food which helps the person too.
Buying a Smoothie Blender
There are many different types of smoothie blenders around from hand held to kitchen work top, the decision is really yours and what suits you most.
Enjoying these drinks on a regular basis, especially a smoothie, can help ward off heart attacks and strokes besides a number of diseases.
Whether you prefer a fruit juice or a smoothie drink will always depend on the individual’s personal taste.
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In my opinion, Smoothie drink is better than fruit juice, because as you already mentioned juice can be poor for the teeth. Besides, i read that smoothie drink is better for weight loss
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