A good all-rounder would be the slightly indulgent cacao and cherry flavour which boasts more than half of the RDA in Vitamins B and E — and it has a super chocolatey taste too! If you are not a fan of bananas which seem to be a staple in most smoothies to add thickness to the texture then try the Uplift Super Smoothie. This is where Innocent smoothies do lose a few points in the healthy eating and drinking stakes.
Whilst there is absolutely no added sugar in their drinks, all the smoothies are quite high in natural sugar. This is unavoidable as natural sugar occurs in fruits and vegetables, but the important difference is that fruit and vegetables have not had sugar added to them to improve the flavour or preserve them. But fruit provides vitamins and fibre, making an Innocent smoothie a better option than reaching for the cookie jar!
The calorie count in Innocent smoothies and Super Smoothies ranges from calories per ml in the Recharge Smoothie, which includes apple, mandarin, banana, carrot, peach and flax seeds with a dash of ginger, to the more calorific Berry Protein Super Smoothie with calories per ml bottle. Whilst it contains more calories, it does also include 7.
Choose the smoothie that fits your unique health goals — if you are trying to lose some weight, go for the one with lower calories and if you are trying to increase your protein intake to build muscle, pick the one with added protein. Many of the smoothies, such as the Invigorate Super Smoothie contain Vitamin B6 which is key to helping your digestive system process any protein you eat.
Bananas contain potassium which helps maintain healthy blood pressure and normal muscle function, and the majority of the Innocent smoothie range include this potassium-rich fruit. For a real potassium hit, try the Cinnamon and Banana Split which includes three pressed bananas. So yes, Innocent smoothies do come with certain health benefits due to the vitamins and minerals they contain.
We should all try to consume more fruit and veg. The NHS gives clear guidelines on the benefits of hitting the 5-a-day target. Nothing special about it; our protein-packed office snacks are a better bet for mid-afternoon gains. Related: the beginner's guide to protein shakes. The green juice cleanse is a health-nut staple, but chugging one of these instead of reaching for the Mars bar isn't going to curb your sweet tooth.
The ml bottle it's the biggest on our list only packs kcal, but the insulin spike is real as it's condensed with 29g of sugar in there too. Squeaky-clean smoothie brand Innocent is dead clever at its marketing, with little knitted hats and squeezing 2 of your 5-a-day into ml.
But fruit is nature's dessert for a reason: the sugar content. Their ml Energise super smoothie is full of good stuff, but also contains kcal and a whopping 40g of sugar. Do Innocent smoothies contain sugar?
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Is store bought smoothie healthy? Is having a smoothie everyday bad? Why are homemade smoothies bad for you? Why am I gaining weight drinking smoothies? What can I add to my smoothie to lose weight? As sugary as a can of Coke, and with almost more calories to boot, you'd do yourself a favour by choosing a less sugary option. We are continuing to develop healthier formulations of our Ribena ready to drink products, by reducing the sugars and calorie content.
This Innocent smoothie has as much sugar as 3. Don't be fooled by the two portions of your five a day. The high fructose sugar content piles the pressure on your liver, and the fact that it's a smoothie makes virtually no difference. The fibre has been so heavily pulped during the manufacturing process that the full sugar load of this smoothie is still rapidly absorbed by the body.
Recent recommendations Dr Lustig have suggested that we need to get our sugar intake down to six teaspoons for women and nine teaspoons for men. On that basis, this drink would deliver per cent of your RDA. Not good. Our smoothies contain all the good stuff that fruit does like fibre and vitamin C. As a standard ml serving of one of our smoothies contains two portions of fruit, i.
Not all Coca Cola is created equal. This abomination from Burger King contains 50 per cent more sugar per ml than the same size drink from Coca Cola. It's all in the process.
This is draught Coke, made by mixing soda water with concentrated sugar syrup, which somehow manages to be even more sugary than the original! The jury's still out on whether diet drinks are an acceptable alternative, but in the meantime, if you have to have fizzy drinks, stick with diet. This Starbucks coffee manages to pack in 74g of sugar, calories and 26g of fat a third of a woman's recommended daily intake and a quarter of a man's. Let's take a moment to absorb that That's a coffee with more fat than a Big Mac and more sugar than 2 cans of Coke.
To work off these calories you'll need to spend an hour and a half in the gym on the bike, and you'd still have 50 more calories to work off! Lower fat milk and sugar-free syrups can ensure our customers get healthier versions of the same great flavours they enjoy. This oversized beverage has double the sugar content of semi skimmed milk as well as a host of E number additives.
At Milk based drinks contain lactose which is a sugar naturally present in milk, and all our products have clear nutritional labelling to enable our consumers to make informed choices. To put g of sugar in perspective, that's over 20 teaspoons worth.
Can you ever imagine adding that to your morning coffee? The drink also packs a hefty calorie punch, coming in at calories; the equivalent of 2 extra cheeseburgers with your meal. To burn off the calories in this behemoth, you'd have to swim front crawl for over an hour! It takes the biscuit that this water is advertised as water, but only has 20 per cent less sugar than a full fat Coke.
The sugars found in our drinks are made up of the sugars in fruit juice and sucrose which is needed to ensure that our drinks taste great without it they would taste too sharp.
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