Drinking smoothies and blended fruit juices can have the unintended consequence of massively increasing the amount of sugar a person consumes, said scientists.
Retailers have reported a boom in the sale of juicers as part of a trend that
began in California and grew with the endorsement of celebrities including
Gwyneth Paltrow, the actress, and James Cracknell, the Olympic rower.
Juicing, which is different to blending or pulping, extracts the water and
nutrients from a fruit or vegetable while discarding the tough fibre which
aids the digestive system.
Barry Popkin, a professor at the department of nutrition at the University of
North Carolina, and Dr George Bray, an American physician, said people were
deceiving themselves about their sugar intake by swapping fizzy drinks for
juices and smoothies.
For example, one smoothie from Innocent — “pomegranates, blueberries and acai
superfood”— contains 34.3g of sugar in a 250ml bottle, while a 500ml bottle
of squeezed orange juice sold at Pret a Manger contains 51g of sugar. This
compares with 39g of sugar in a 330ml can of Coke.Culled from The Telegraph
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