Does blending fruits and vegetables make them lose some nutrients?

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It is a complex answer:

1. For nutrients, they may make them more available. Because they do the purpose that teeth may do for chewing and break the cell walls more finely than otherwise. On thenegative, this may mean that calories otherwise that would have passed through your body undigested will get digested.
2. It shouldn’t have any effect on the total fiber consumed for your microbiome. The bacteria in your gut will eat them regardless.
3. Insoluble fibers impact on constipation is supposed to have some effect because the fiber is rough. This impact may get lessened.
4. Satiety of a smoothie is less than eating those veg/fruit whole. So, one may end up consuming more calories.

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Not if you’re drinking all of what’s in the blender. Not to my understanding, at least. I don’t think blending with any conventional kitchen blender actually breaks the chemical bonds between molecules within the vitamins and minerals.

But I could be wrong? Maybe?

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You are not losing nutrients when blending. Blending simply just changes the form of the fruit/vegetable. What does make them lose nutrients is oxidation. When they go through this process the nutrients are broken down and released via enzymes.

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No, they will not be less nutritious.

But keep in mind that by blending things down to the level where your smoothie doesn’t contain any chunks, you might be compelled to consume MORE, as they take up less volume.

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You don’t lose any fiber or nutrition when blending. You are putting in a whole food and then drinking that same whole food. Nothing is lost. Often, the nutrients are more bio available.

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You lose fiber if juicing. You do not lose any nutrients when juicing no matter they type of machine.

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No, you’re just cutting the fruit, not changing it chemically. Cutting is a physical change, not a chemical change.

Removing the peel removes the fiber of some fruit, like apples, which reduces your feeling of fullness. That’s why fruit juice isn’t good for you - you get all the sugar but no fiber, which saturates your liver with many times the ammt of juice you would get from 1 piece of fruit, but no fiber to give you a feeling of fullness. This promotes diabetes and obesity.

If you blend whole fruit with high fiber, like strawberries, youre fine. Also avoid adding sugar from add-ins like yogurt or peanut butter.

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All of my vegetable intakes comes from juicing. I can’t stand eating them, except for roasted Brussel sprouts. You lose the fiber, but the actual nutrition is still there and I just supplement the fiber with other complex carbs, whole grains, and supplements.

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The amount lost from the heat imparted by blending is negligible to the amount made available by mechanically breaking them down. Freezing/chilling them before blending can almost completely offset the heat breakdown from blending.

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Unless you are able to collect every single drop of smoothie from the inside of your blender, from the bender blades and from the recipient you pour the smoothie into, then, yeah, you do lose some nutrients because you lose some amount of the fruits and vegetables.

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Not in terms of vitamins and such, but you’re doing a process your body normally does outside of your body, therefore you won’t spend the energy breaking then down to liquids. You’re taking an already fairly simple, but still complex carbohydrate and breaking it down into something more simple so your body will probably store more sugar out of it, and things like blueberries that have a thickish skin, you won’t be benifitting from the fiber as much since it’ll already be torn to shreds, your digestive system will be able to break it down further. That doesn’t by any stretch of the imagination mean it’s a bad thing to do, I wouldn’t exclusively eat fruits and veggies like this though

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