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Innocent smoothies/Tropicana drinks- good/bad?

  • 16-09-2010 11:59am
    #1
    dinneenp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,191 ✭✭✭


    Hi,
    I love Innocent smoothies and Tropicana juices (OJ or similar).
    they say nothing but 100% fruit.
    1. is this possible? if so why don't they go off sooner (if shipped from Florida etc, on shelf in shop, home etc)
    2. it says Xmls of a glass are 2 of you '5 a day fruit'. Does this mean that they're as good as eating 2 pieces of fruit? I think not as some 'goodness' gets lost when you juice.
    3. Some say they're very high in sugar. But I think this is natural, just that the fruit itself has high sugar. True.

    I know people think straight away 'just eat fruit instead.' And I do but am just wondering how good/much benefit I get from the juices as well?


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  • #2
    EileenG
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,775 ✭✭✭EileenG


    It's possible. The juice has been treated so it will stay drinkable during travel, same way milk usually keeps for at least a week, while fresh milk that's left to stand will go sour in a day.

    No, nothing like eating two pieces of fruit. There may be the juice of two pieces of fruit, but you are losing all the fiber etc. Plus you will lose some nutrition when you process and package.

    Yes, it's fruit sugar, but that doesn't mean it's a free food. Irish fruit is noticeably lower in sugar (and higher in fiber) than most of the fruit that goes into those smoothies. We did not evolve to handle that amount of fruit sugar, especially when there is no fiber to slow down the digestion of it. If you wanted to make your own smoothie with local apples and pears and strawberries etc, I'd say go for it. One based on banana and grapes and oranges, I'm not so keen.

    One of those smoothies could be useful, but you need to treat it as a meal replacement, not a snack or a drink. And it should be an occasional thing, not every day. See if you can find out what are the calories in one serving of those smoothies, and see if you are still so keen.


  • #3
    ducie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 79 ✭✭ducie


    EileenG wrote: »
    It's possible. The juice has been treated so it will stay drinkable during travel, same way milk usually keeps for at least a week, while fresh milk that's left to stand will go sour in a day.

    No, nothing like eating two pieces of fruit. There may be the juice of two pieces of fruit, but you are losing all the fiber etc. Plus you will lose some nutrition when you process and package.

    Yes, it's fruit sugar, but that doesn't mean it's a free food. Irish fruit is noticeably lower in sugar (and higher in fiber) than most of the fruit that goes into those smoothies. We did not evolve to handle that amount of fruit sugar, especially when there is no fiber to slow down the digestion of it. If you wanted to make your own smoothie with local apples and pears and strawberries etc, I'd say go for it. One based on banana and grapes and oranges, I'm not so keen.

    One of those smoothies could be useful, but you need to treat it as a meal replacement, not a snack or a drink. And it should be an occasional thing, not every day. See if you can find out what are the calories in one serving of those smoothies, and see if you are still so keen.

    you dont seem to like bananas, any other frut high in sugar?


  • #4
    rubadub
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,386 ✭✭✭✭rubadub


    EileenG wrote: »
    The juice has been treated so it will stay drinkable during travel,
    Yes, it could be heat treated, like UHT milk, marks & spencer do a pastueurised pressed pineapple juice which tastes amazingly fresh, it is to be drunk withink 48hrs, they have another carton of pressed pineapple juice which is still nice but hasn't got the same zing to it.
    ducie wrote: »
    you dont seem to like bananas, any other frut high in sugar?
    Grapes are about 16%, bananas 22%, apples & oranges are 10-12%. Most berries would be less.

    I was reading about the natural methanol content in apple & orange juice.

    Some fruit juices are naturally high in methanol - for example apple juice can have 0.2-0.3% methanol, or if derived from pulp by enzymatic degradation, the levels can be 2 to 3 times higher.
    In http://archive.food.gov.uk/maff/archive/food/infsheet/1993/no17/17orange.htm orange juice contains 10 to 50 times as much methanol as sugarmash.

    The lethal dose of methanol is at least 100 ml that is equal to about 80000 mg or you need 27000 liters of mash at least to get that amount.

    also from the webpage: "Dietary surveys have shown that an extreme consumer of orange juice drinks slightly over 2 litres/day. The estimated maximum intake of methanol based on this consumption would be 455 mg for a 60 kg adult which is below the maximum advisory intake of 600 mg per day for a 60 kg adult, recommended by the Department of Health."
    Sugar mash is fermented sugar, this is from a site dispelling myths about home made alcohol/spirits making you blind.


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