Making smoothies is an art, and a science, and as Steemit's chief smoothie expert, I am here to help.
I have seen many smoothie posts on Steemit, and sometimes, the advice being given out makes me cringe. Such as adding extra sugar to a fruit based smoothie.
Someone is spreading bad advice on the internet, so I, the Steemit's internet police chief officer am here to save the universe from someone committing cybercrime of being wrong on the internet. Wrong according to whom? SHHHH!
I am here to protect you. To protect you from manifestations of pure evil, such as this one blogger girl who said green peas make great smoothies. She even went as far as to say it was her favorite. DO NOT PUT GREEN PEAS IN YOUR SMOOTHIES. I repeat, DO NOT PUT GREEN PEAS IN YOUR SMOOTHIES! Its a trap!
Now lets talk about sugar.
Sugar
Smoothies are already packed with sugar. Lets look at some common fruits we use, and their per 100g sugar content.
| Fruit (100g) | Carbs | Sugar |
|---|---|---|
| Banana | 23g | 12g |
| Apple | 14g | 10g |
| Mango | 15g | 14g |
| Pineapple | 13g | 10g |
If you're american, and can't do metrics, you can just think of values as percentages. For instance, 24.4g in 100g = 24.4%.
Perhaps, looking at per 1 fruit sugar content would be more practical.
| Fruit (1 piece) | Carbs | Sugar |
|---|---|---|
| Banana | 29g | 15g |
| Apple | 25g | 19g |
| Mango | 50g | 46g |
| Pineapple | 119g | 89g |
So, if we put 1 banana, 1 apple and a few slices of mangoes/pineapple in our smoothie, we are already over 50g of sugar. Which is quite a bit.
Fortunately, fruit comes with a sugar antidote - fibre. Fibre is a long-chain carbohydrate, that slows down the absorption of simple carbohydrates (ie. fructose sugar).
With slower fructose and glucose release into the bloodstream comes a benefit of reduced liver load, and lower insulin (fat storage hormone) response.
Unfortunately, processed sugars come with no such safeties. Because their chains are very short, they get absorbed almost instantly, reaping havoc in our bodies.
To learn more about toxicity and weight gaining properties of processed sugars, I highly recommend watching this video:
You may feel like your smoothie is not sweet enough. The problem is not in the smoothie, but in your sugar addiction. If you cut out all the sweets from your diet, and only restrict yourself to real fruits as a source of sugar, your sugar tolerance, cravings and body mass will go down. Your happiness and guilt-free fulfillment levels will go up, when you indulge in a all-natural fruit based smoothie.
This video explains how sugar addiction works:
In conclusion
Lets avoid putting nasty stuff in our smoothies. Things like, but not limited to:
- fake juice from the store
- yogurt packed with glucose-fructose syrup
- cheap honey
- artificial sweeteners
- green peas
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In the next post, we will be exposing the scam behind almond milk, and why you're much better off just eating half-a dozen raw almonds. Plus, I will show you the perfect binding ingredient as a replacement for processed almond milk in your smoothies.