Green Smoothie Detox - Make Fresh Or What Store Bought Brand Do You Recommend?

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  • lemurcat12
    lemurcat12 Posts: 30,886 Member
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    Hi,
    I make green juices or smoothies in my blender. The basic premise for me is for the majority of the drink to have greens (spinach, kale, parsley, etc.), then add a very small amount of fruit for some sweetness. Fresh ginger can also be wonderfully energizing. These green drinks have helped me to lose weight, consume the recommended amount of vegetables, and feel healthier. If you can commit to these drinks for a few days, you may come to crave them. I avoid store bought/pre-made for various reasons.

    Thank you! The ingredients you mention are on the infographic and I actually discussed going on a green smoothie detox with my naturopath and doctor who stated it has a lot of health benefits including weight loss. :)

    A naturopath would say that. They have no actual training in nutrition or medicine that actually works. I'm surprised your naturopath isn't selling them to you directly, to be honest. Also you'll gain any weight back when you go back to eating food again, since you'll be putting mass back into your body.

    The focus is not weight loss. My question is regarding making it fresh or go for store bought brand.

    And you're trusting a pretend doctor for advice. You have a built-in detox system that's running optimally - if it wasn't, you'd be in the emergency room. It's literally not going to do anything for you, and if it's getting nutrients that you want, why not eat the whole food which your body is built to break down and use, instead of liquids where half the good stuff is already tossed out and the rest won't get as absorbed fully into your system as it would if you actually ate the fruit and veg?

    :) How do you know I have a detox system that is running optimally?

    Are you on dialysis? Are any of your organs failing? If you don't have actual concerns with your liver or kidneys, your system is running fine. And anything that is actually accumulating in your body like heavy metals would need specific chelation therapy, not green drinks.

    Stick to the question. :)

    Please understand, this is an open forum and many come here via Google or other paths and may come across your post.

    To that end, it is important to respond to the ideas and concepts brought up by your post, as opposed to to a simple response, or no response, based on what you are looking for.

    So, you do not have the ability, nor should you, to limit the responses in the thread to just what you want them to be.

    It's important to point out the uselessness of the detox smoothies so the next person wondering about them has some useful information, like that they are a waste of time and money.

    So, take what you want from this thread but understand it's not all about you.

    Green smoothies just like green juices is filled with healthy vitamins and nutrients. A little weird how people would think consuming a beverage with healthy ingredients is worthless. But your right its your opinion.

    Why do you think consuming those ingredients as a smoothie (or only smoothies) is healthier than including them in whole form in your diet?

    Green juice is harmless, but I think removing the fiber is generally not a great idea for most people (there are exceptions, and it mostly depends on whether you keep them low cal or not and what else you eat).

    My regular diet consist of whole fresh foods with tons of fiber. I drink lots of water with fresh juices and will add green smoothie this week. Green smoothies consist of tons of fiber from fruits, vegetables, chia or flaxseeds and omega 3 oils.

    So you are now saying you are adding green smoothies to your normal diet? That wasn't the original premise, as a "detox" or "cleanse" is normally only consuming the thing (also bunk).

    Of course, as I said upthread, I enjoy smoothies and make them a few times a week for breakfast (or occasionally dinner instead if I get home super late and don't want anything else/am too tired to cook). I see no harm in a tasty, balanced smoothie as a meal. You just seem to think there's some magical property that smoothies provide, and that's not true. How do you think the ingredients in the smoothie transform by being eaten in a smoothie vs. some other manner?

    As for what is in a green smoothie, it obviously depends on what you put in it. Your "infographic" is hardly the be-all, end-all, and given that you were going to buy some premade one at the beginning of this thread (which have a wide range of ingredients), let's not pretend that all smoothies have "tons of fiber from fruits, vegetables, etc."

    I actually think it would be weird to add an omega 3 oil to a smoothie (what is that exactly? a crushed up fish oil pill? also, btw, what most people need to get for omega 3 is EPA and DHA, not merely ALA, which is all you get from flax and chia seeds -- I think they are nice additions, but don't think they are super as a source of omega 3).

    Anyway, the fiber is smoothies is fine, the same as whatever the ingredients you add (which varies a lot), and the ingredients I add are all things I'd eat anyway, which was my point. It's juice that removes the fiber so isn't all that (although it's tasty and not harmful, except in excess, I just prefer whole foods).

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