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Fruits are a nutritious and incredibly healthy food source in many aspects of health. Adding fruit to your daily diet is essential, not only to help you strengthen your immune system but also to actively support the digestive system. However, many people wonder whether to eat fruit directly or drink fruit juice to get the most nutrients possible?
1. Should fruit juice be pressed into drinking water or eaten directly?
Researchers say that drinking fruit juice does not provide as many health benefits as eating fruit directly.
The amount of liquid in the fruit contains most of the vitamins, minerals and phytochemicals. However, in the process of juicing fruit has accidentally lost the healthy amount of fiber in them.
Some people believe that drinking fruit juice is better than eating whole fruit because the body will absorb the nutrients better and give your digestive system time to digest. fiber . Moreover, many people believe that drinking fruit juice also helps reduce the risk of cancer, remove toxins from the body, strengthen the immune system, aid digestion and help you lose weight effectively. However, there is no scientific evidence to prove that consuming the extract from juicing is better than eating the fruit directly.
But if you don't like eating fruit, you can still add fruit juices to your diet to try fruits you don't want to eat directly. Ideally, you should drink fruit juice immediately after juicing because harmful bacteria can grow quickly in the juice you have just squeezed. If you buy commercially produced fresh juice, choose pasteurized products.
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2. Why should we eat fruit directly instead of drinking juice?
In fact, the amount of fiber and nutritional components in fruit juices has been significantly reduced after processing, even they contain a large amount of sugar - the main cause of rapid weight gain. fast.
Most people do not clearly distinguish the different benefits of eating fruit directly and drinking fruit juice. We all believe that we will get all the same nutrients when consuming fruit in both ways. However, the truth is that the amount of fiber in fruit juice and the fruit you get is not the same.
On the other hand, packaged or canned fruit juices contain very little real fruit, even non-fruit flavors. With these fruit juices, you will not get the nutrients you expect, but only make the body load more sugar. Therefore, it is better to eat fruits directly and bring more nutritional benefits.
3. How should you consume fruit accordingly?
Most of the food, no matter how good and nutritious, but when consumed in excess, it will be counterproductive, even harmful to the body, including fresh fruit or fruit juice. So, with any type of food, you should only use them in moderation and moderation is best.
According to nutritionists, you should only consume about 400 grams of fresh fruit per day. For those who are in the process of losing weight, they should increase the amount of fiber that comes from vegetables instead of consuming fruit.
If you want to drink fruit juice, you should prioritize choosing fruits that contain less sugar and only drink a maximum of 1-2 glasses per day. Instead of using only one fruit, you can combine or change a variety of different fruits to help your body get more vitamins and minerals.
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Reference source: mayoclinic.org
