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I bought a blender and started using it for smoothies. Anyone on CE drink this stuff a lot?

i mean, it depends on the smoothie

Plenty of smoothies can be unhealthy, especially if they have a lot of high sugar things like fruits

Yeah I like them. I don't really like wasting time eating so smoothies are a good way to get in a bunch of stuff at once. I use one of these because a blender is a bitch to clean.

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I used to drink them alot til i had to sell my blender
Good way to eat fruits n vegetables i dont like. Kale, bananas etc

I love them but the ingredients for me are just banana, strawberries, ice-cream and milk. Not terrible but I wouldn't call it particularly healthy

haloiscoolisbak posted...

I love them but the ingredients for me are just banana, strawberries, ice-cream and milk. Not terrible but I wouldn't call it particularly healthy

I stack a a bunch of spinach with 1 bananna and 2 strawberries with Greek Yogurt for Protein.

That's a pretty healthy work lunch, right?

luigi33 posted...

I stack a a bunch of spinach with 1 bananna and 2 strawberries with Greek Yogurt for Protein.

That's a pretty healthy work lunch, right?

See I'm not a fan of Greek yoghurt or spinach in a smoothie. But yes, definitely healthier than how I do them

Smoothies ain't healthy. Just take a multivitamin and save the sugar and calories.

I have mine with fruits , some milk and protein powder. Makes a great post workout drink

You should eat your fruit unblended.

luigi33 posted...

I stack a a bunch of spinach with 1 bananna and 2 strawberries with Greek Yogurt for Protein.

That's a pretty healthy work lunch, right?

Fruit is plenty healthy. It does have sugars, but everything in moderation. If you know how to portion your food properly fruit has many benefits.
It also have vitamins and can have antioxidants.
Greek yogurt is good for you too. Very high in protein and spinach is great for you.

No. I'm going to make something else if I'm going to make it myself, and if I'm buying it from the store I don't want to have to constantly check that it's not just apple juice.

As an example:
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Oh yeah, I want my passion fruit, mango, and guava smoothie to be 62% apple juice +>=6% apple puree (as it has to be bigger than/equal to the mango puree).

W_S_C_M posted...

I have mine with fruits , some milk and protein powder. Makes a great post workout drink

I'm interested in them for this reason as well. For now, they definitely make lunch at work stress free. No going to a fast food or spending a bunch of time preparing food for work. Just go idle and drink healthy shit is ideal as hell for me. But yes after workout this seems like a super healthy option.

I feel like a smoothie wouldn't be filling enough for a whole meal. And I wake up too early to make one in the mornings. Maybe on the weekend

luigi33 posted...

I'm interested in them for this reason as well. For now, they definitely make lunch at work stress free. No going to a fast food or spending a bunch of time preparing food for work. Just go idle and drink healthy shit is ideal as hell for me. But yes after workout this seems like a super healthy option.

Yep, you're getting all your macros and should be enough protein for protein synthesis to occur. Perfect for muscle recovery

W_S_C_M posted...

Yep, you're getting all your macros and should be enough protein for protein synthesis to occur. Perfect for muscle recovery

Sweet.

CE is super useful for healthy talk like this. Thanks guys I really appreciate ya'll.

haloiscoolisbak posted...

I love them but the ingredients for me are just banana, strawberries, ice-cream and milk. Not terrible but I wouldn't call it particularly healthy

Honestly, it's only the ice cream that makes your smoothie unhealthy. The banana is more than enough to sweeten the smoothie. Try without the ice cream and you'll most likely still enjoy it - and it'll actually be healthy.

I went on a couple smoothie kicks but it fizzled out both times. I got sick of buying fresh fruit all the time and cleaning the blender.

yep, life hack, but either extremely high maintenance or extremely expensive

I used to drink smoothies as a lunch replacement too. I never put veggies or yogurt in them though. I'd do a bit of juice, strawberries, bananas and sometimes blueberries. The blueberries though, tend to give the smoothie a very gritty consistency. Wasn't a fan of that, but I know they're good for you.

I think the idea of adding protein to it is a good one too. Should make it a bit more filling. With just fruit, I was pretty damn hungry by dinner time

yeah, i do bananas + strawberries, carrots, spinach, yogurt, protein powder, and also cacao powder

cacao is really good and imo a better energy source than caffeine (cacao has theobromine) but it makes the smoothie kinda fizzy

I'll go through smoothie phases every couple months. My go to smoothie is banana, organic peanut butter, spinach, and some oat milk. Sub pb with strawberries if we have some in the fridge that need to be eaten.

luigi33 posted...

I stack a a bunch of spinach with 1 bananna and 2 strawberries with Greek Yogurt for Protein.

That's a pretty healthy work lunch, right?

Pretty good, yeah.

Some people pack it with fruit and just because it's natural sugar doesn't mean it isn't still sugar lol you can definitely overdo it with fruit.

NoxObscuras posted...

I used to drink smoothies as a lunch replacement too. I never put veggies or yogurt in them though. I'd do a bit of juice, strawberries, bananas and sometimes blueberries. The blueberries though, tend to give the smoothie a very gritty consistency. Wasn't a fan of that, but I know they're good for you.

I think the idea of adding protein to it is a good one too. Should make it a bit more filling. With just fruit, I was pretty damn hungry by dinner time

What you really want is to add fiber. More fiber = less hungry because it's stuck in the stomach longer.

Spinach is one of the better sources of fiber that's commonly used in smoothies.

Get yourself an immersion blender because you can basically just rinse those off under the faucet and be done with it. A regular blender is too much work unless you're making a lot. Like for a party or something.

eggcorn posted...

Yeah I like them. I don't really like wasting time eating so smoothies are a good way to get in a bunch of stuff at once. I use one of these because a blender is a bitch to clean.

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Just pop soap and water into the blender and run it for a minute or so and you're g2g.

Smoothies are less healthy than simply eating the foods unblended. Obviously getting a more complete nutrient profile will have positive results, but the more processing done to your food, the less overall healthy it is. The more processed your food is, the less your body has to work to digest it, which means the sugars (which all foods eventually break down into) more rapidly pass into your blood. Highly processed foods greatly contribute to diabetes because (i think) they result in much higher amounts of sugar dumping into your bloodstream at once.

Japanties posted...

but the more processing done to your food, the less overall healthy it is.

This is not a universally true statement. It's also not really a scale from 1-100 either. Some kinds of processing can reduce some nutrients while increasing others. The overall effect of blending your fruits and veggies is not very big anyway as long as that's all you're doing. But it can also depend on what kind of fruits you're blending.

Pineapples have Bromelain, for example, which is an enzyme that can destroy the nutrients in other foods.

Tyranthraxus posted...

This is not a universally true statement. It's also not really a scale from 1-100 either. Some kinds of processing can reduce some nutrients while increasing others. The overall effect of blending your fruits and veggies is not very big anyway as long as that's all you're doing. But it can also depend on what kind of fruits you're blending.

Pineapples have Bromelain, for example, which is an enzyme that can destroy the nutrients in other foods.

I've also heard that blending bananas with blueberries destroys the nutrients in blueberries...? Therefore making a blueberry banana smoothie not the ideal combo. I think that's what it was anyway.

Tyranthraxus posted...

This is not a universally true statement.

Yeah, it's just my general rule of thumb. I've forgotten a lot about biochem since college when I was living with biochem students who wouldn't shut up about their lessons. It's exhausting trying to actively listen to people who just spew jargon and assume you understand.

Tyranthraxus posted...

The overall effect of blending your fruits and veggies is not very big anyway as long as that's all you're doing.

You're probably right, I'm just used to thinking in min-max mindset for stuff like this because internet groups for bodybuilding/weightlifting have an unhealthy fixation on optimal training and nutrition.

Tyranthraxus posted...

Pineapples have Bromelain, for example, which is an enzyme that can destroy the nutrients in other foods.

yeah but it makes your cummies taste sweet

Basically all the food you're eating is processed in some way unless you're buying it straight from a farm or a farmers market that sources only local farms.

It's less important to be concerned about whether something is processed or not and more important to be concerned about what kind of processing has been done.

And even that can change depending on personal situation. Someone with diabetes might want to eat some beef jerky (with no sugars added). Someone with high blood pressure problems might not be able to eat that because too much sodium.

The only nutrition advice you really need is go to the doctor for a physical and get blood/urine tests done and fix any problems identified in your diet.

I love smoothies
Need to prep some more soon

studies show that drinking nutrients isn't that healthy since you're not actively chewing and your body isn't properly taking in the nutrients since it thinks you're just drinking water :C

Another life hack I learned is just getting a French fry cutter, cut whole potatoes into fries in one go, season them then bake them. Boom. French fries with way less calories and without the grease. Hell you can do 3 potatoes, which is filling on its own, and probably only have it be about 600 calories. You just have to drain the starch out the potatoes after cutting them to make them crispy when they bake.

winged_weltall posted...

Honestly, it's only the ice cream that makes your smoothie unhealthy. The banana is more than enough to sweeten the smoothie. Try without the ice cream and you'll most likely still enjoy it - and it'll actually be healthy.

To add to this if your using ice cream to make it creamy then you can just use yogurt too.

dude don't eat pineapples if you want to be healthy. don't blend fruit otherwise you're just drinking a lot of sugar!

leex0 posted...

Smoothies ain't healthy. Just take a multivitamin and save the sugar and calories.

If you make the smoothie right it's healthy.

First off, shit like Jamba is out. They literally have sherbert in their smoothies.

I make my own, and I only put fresh or frozen fruit and fresh squeezed fruit juice. Fresh squeezed is the key. Because if it's fresh the sugars are the natural fruit sugars. Once it's pasteurized it cooks all the nutrients out of it and it leaves all the bad sugar.