Compared with eating fruit, juice squeezed by a juicer is more nutritious and can ensure better absorption by the human body. There are many ways to squeeze juice with a juicer, so what kind of drinking method is more nutritious for squeezed juice? This article will share with you how to drink juice more healthily.
1. Fresh juice should not be sweetened
Fresh fruit juice should not be consumed with added sugar. Because fruit juice is a low-calorie food, the caloric energy content per hectogram is less than 50 kcal. After drinking it with sugar, it will increase the calorie and affect the appetite, resulting in a decrease in the amount of meals. In addition, the juice for babies should not be added with sugar, otherwise it will cause the baby's dependence on sweets, and even develop the habit of liking sweets. Do not heat fresh juice when drinking, heating will affect the taste of the juice, and more importantly, some nutrients, especially vitamin C, will be damaged.
2. Who is suitable for drinking fruit juice?
Juice is a drink for all ages, from nursing babies to the elderly. Fruit juice is considered to be a supplementary food that must be added to vitamin C supplementation for 3-month-old infants. However, there are also people who are not suitable for drinking juice, such as those suffering from ulcer disease and acute and chronic gastroenteritis. Some healthy people also experience bloating and diarrhea when they drink fruit juice, which is caused by the indigestible carbohydrates in fruit juice. People with poor kidney function should avoid drinking juice at night, otherwise they may wake up in the morning with swollen hands and feet.
3. Fruit juice is not a substitute for fruit
Freshly squeezed fruit juice retains a considerable part of the nutrients in the fruit, such as vitamins, minerals, sugar and pectin in dietary fiber, and has a good taste. However, there is a certain gap between the nutrition of fruit juice and fruit, and fruit juice cannot completely replace fruit. First, fruit juices are essentially free of the cellulose found in fruit. Second, the mashing and pressing process destroys some of the oxidizable vitamins in the fruit. Third, in the process of commercial fruit juice production, there are some additives that will inevitably affect the nutritional quality of the fruit juice, such as sweeteners, preservatives, coagulants that make the juice clear, and additives that prevent the juice from discoloring. Fourth, the nutritional content of commercially available fruit juices will also be damaged during the heating and sterilization process. Therefore, for those who can eat fresh fruit, fresh whole fruit is always the best choice.
4. Freshly squeezed juice should be consumed within half an hour
Experts point out that drinking fresh orange juice that has been placed for more than half an hour not only has no nutritional effect, but even brings negative effects. The health functions of orange juice can be said to be numerous. For example, drinking orange juice can help dilate blood vessels and enhance human immunity; orange juice can promote the normal work of the gastrointestinal tract and help remove harmful substances that enter the human body with air and food. However, if the fresh orange juice is stored for more than half an hour, its original nutrients and health effects will be drastically weakened.
5. 100% fruit juice is more nutritious
To distinguish the nutritional value of commercially available fruit juice, one depends on its purity, the second depends on the type of fruit, and the third depends on the pulp content. Juice of the same fruit, 100% pure juice is definitely more nutritious than 10% or other pure juice. Mixed juices are more nutritious: one nutrient for one fruit, and many nutrients for many fruits.
6. It is not advisable to take medicines with juice
When children are sick, some parents use juice instead of water to give their children medicine, which is unscientific. In all kinds of fruit juice drinks, most of them contain vitamin C and fruit acid, and the acidic substances easily lead to the early decomposition and dissolution of various drugs, which is not conducive to the absorption of drugs in the small intestine and affects the efficacy of drugs. Some drugs will increase side effects in an acidic environment and have adverse effects on the human body.
