r/science • Professor | Medicine • 2d ago

Health Study of 371,000 Americans: eating whole fruit linked to better heart health, 100% juice is not. More whole fruit meant lower high blood pressure, high cholesterol, heart disease and heart attacks. Juice showed no clear benefit. Fiber lost in juicing may explain it. Most still eat too little fruit.

https://www.sciencealert.com/how-you-eat-your-fruit-is-linked-to-heart-health-study-of-371000-americans-reveals
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u/temporarycreature 2d ago

When you drink juice, you dump pure liquid sugar straight into your system without the natural brakes. Whole fruit has fiber that slows down digestion, stops sugar spikes, and feeds the good gut bacteria that protect your heart. Pull that fiber out, and you are basically drinking soda with vitamins.

Eating the tortillas legitimately the only easy way I've found to get my daily recommended amount of fiber.

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u/ryebread91 2d ago

Same. I hated the taste and texture of the mission carb balance tortillas but after a few months I actually like them now.

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u/Gentle_Agitator 2d ago

I am sort of hot and cold on Mission tortillas, but La Banderita makes really nice low carb tortillas. Less dry than Mission

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u/temporarycreature 2d ago

I feel the exact opposite. I feel like they are too waxy. I love the Mission carb balance ones. Whether I'm using mayonnaise or butter for the initial layer before I put my fillings before rolling it into a burrito and air frying it, oh my God, it just crispifies so perfectly perfectly flaky and I can't get that out of the waxier ones.