No, it isn’t, clearly, fruit juice isn’t healthier than your whole fruit. Regardless of whether the juice is newly crushed on the spot, drinking the juice is less sound than eating the fruit in actuality. You might be enticed into believing that since the juice comes directly from the fruit itself, they should be healthfully the same. But this is a complete myth that the food industry has been selling it to you!

Research led by L. F. Burroughs which was published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition states, “Healthy volunteers ingested sugar-equivalent meals of oranges and orange juice and of grapes and grape juice. Satiety, assessed by two subjective scoring systems, was greater after whole fruit than after juice and the return of appetite was delayed. With oranges, as previously reported with apples, there was a significantly smaller insulin response to fruit than to juice and less postabsorptive fall in plasma glucose.” Interestingly, a study led by H. H. Stratton and published in the journal Pediatrics found that “Among children who were initially either at risk for overweight or overweight, increased fruit juice intake was associated with excess adiposity gain, whereas parental offerings of whole fruits were associated with reduced adiposity gain.”

So, next time, you better have your whole fruit! Say no to juices, especially the readymade ones that you get in the supermarket.

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