... keeps the doctor away. Well, it does
not. Fruit is not as healthy as people think. If you believe the nutrition industry, every week produces some new superfood, often a fruit: blueberries, pomegranates, acai berries.
But fruit just doesn’t provide that much nutrition in the first place. Lets have a look at the content of most fruit: water, and more water, sugar (about 10%), some vitamin C and some potassium. That will be most of it, for most fruits. Hardly fibers, hardly other minerals and vitamins. Actually, there isn't much difference between drinking a smoothie compared to an ordinary glass of Coke.
Antioxidants in pomegranate, cranberry or blueberry juice, which supposedly fight diseases as different as cancer and arthritis, actually only last in the body for about one hour. Wheatgrass, that standby of the trendy juicebar, is said to be rich in detoxifying chlorophyll, but every green vegetable and leaf in the world contains cholorophyll – which is not, in fact, absorbable by our bodies.
Then what food is healthy, one might ask? The foods packed full of micronutrients are grains, seeds and nuts, the peas and beans. And don't forget the vegetables we should eat more often, such as cabbage, spinach and broccoli.