Actually, it's worse. Ethanol can't be metabolized into adipose, while fructose (the closest sugar to alcohol) is more likely to be deposited as adipose if you consume it without the fiber.
So are you saying fruit juice is bad for you?
Why does eating fiber with fructose make a difference?
Yes, fruit juice can be bad for you. Anything more than a small glass that you made yourself. If you buy pre-made, that juice is more sugar than water that once passed by a fruit on it's way to bottling.
The fiber from the fruit's meat helps you get full thereby ensuring you don't eat a huge amount of the fructose. If you juice it, you remove the meat and fiber, concentrating the fructose into a much smaller form necessitating you use several fruits worth to get a good amount. That's a lot of sugar.
Ah understood, so fructose isn’t necessarily bad for you… just excess accounts found in juices and junk food are no good.
I’d assume fruit smoothies are okay because they keep the fiber off the fruit in the concoction.
Yes, fruit juice is roughly as hard on your liver as beer. Fiber matters because it causes steric hinderance, which makes the fructose enter your system much more slowly. Instead of a big spike of fructose hitting your liver, it's more spread out, giving your liver more time to deal with the byproducts.
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