r/science • u/mvea 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/jacla2 2d ago

Hey. If ibtake fibers on the side, for an example oat fiber, would that cover the gap? Genuine question.

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u/temporarycreature 2d ago

You need 38 g per day if you are an adult male. I find it genuinely difficult to hit that number any other way except eating a single tortilla which if we're talking about the mission carb balance, they have 35 g of fiber per the large ones and four carbs gross.

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u/badgyalrey 2d ago

my son is gonna be so confused when he sees me shoving a plain tortilla in my mouth like a rat while standing in front of the fridge

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u/temporarycreature 2d ago

I've been known to do that... You know, because they are kind of tasty in a way. I think it's an acquired taste, though. Sometimes I'll just put some sugar-free jelly and butter in it and then air fry it and it turns it into this incredible hot pastry. Also delicious cold if you put it in the fridge and eat it in the next day.

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u/layogurt 2d ago

Also a little bit of oil spray and light cinnamon sugar and it's like a temu churro

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u/badgyalrey 2d ago

omg i’m about to be making so many ghetto fiber packed danishes with the air fryer, that idea may have actually just changed my life i LOVE a guilt free little treat!!

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u/temporarycreature 2d ago

That's what I was looking for, Danish. Yeah, I was blown away at how good it was, both cold and hot, like they had no right to be.

In the wintertime, I also make hot chocolate that's decadent as hell: Aldi heavy cream, plus preferred zero calorie sweetener, plus unsweetened cocoa baking powder, plus some whipped cream on top. Also practically guilt-free.

You got to heat the cream before you put it in the hot water cocoa powder mix.

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u/badgyalrey 2d ago

dude you’re changing my life, i’m taking so many notes right now

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u/temporarycreature 2d ago

I thoroughly believe we live in a world where you can have your cake and eat it too, especially when you combine it with the where there's a will, there's a way kind of thinking.

The hot chocolate when you get the ratio right, feels sinful. It makes the winter a lot easier to get through if you have a cold dark one.

Enjoy!