What are the benefits of eating fresh fruit and vegetables instead of drinking the juice?
Juicing any fruit or vegetable removes its pulp, or fibre, unless you puree your chosen crop and consume the finely processed fibre with your juice. Typical juicing extracts the fluid and separates the pulp. In this process, some nutrient value is lost, although vitamins, minerals and sugars remain in the glass of clear juice. There are many reasons your body needs fibre, such as providing bulk for your digestive tract which helps to attract and remove all the by-products of metabolism from the body. Clear juices cannot be used as a substitute for whole fruits or vegetables, but only as a supplement to a balanced diet. What is the difference between carbohydrates in fruit and carbohydrates in sugar or grains? Fruit juices contain mostly sugars from fructose, the simplest type of sugar which is different from carbohydrates found in other foods. Fructose is a monosaccharide composed of one sugar molecule which is absorbed quickly as it doesn’t need further digestion. On the other hand, s
