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Do juices and smoothies have the same nutritional value?

Fresh juices as smoothies are healthy drinks that allow us to enjoy the beneficial properties of the fresh ingredients contained in them, especially fruits and vegetables.
The main ingredients of many industrially prepared juices are, if we read the label, water and sugar and only then a small percentage of fruit. However, while shopping or out of home and even at the bar, we can find good natural juices with no added sugars or colorants and these can be a great way to replenish liquids and vitamins.
A separate discussion is made for fresh juices prepared with an extractor, of which we currently hear much talk. These are extracted at low speeds so as not to heat the ingredients, in order not to affect their vitamins and enzymes.
We thus obtain beverages rich in water (biological water present in fruits and vegetables), enzymes, vitamins and mineral salts, but poor in fibres which remain as scraps of the product.

Instead smoothies, in addition to the juice, contain also fibres, which then help transit through the intestinal tract, and they are also great if we add coconut or almond milk, turning them more delicate (smooth). During the day, additionally to the amount of water needed, we enjoy our favourite fruits by preparing a mixed fruit smoothie or an extract of seasonal fruit and vegetables.
A tasty and light appetizer? Let’s combine Grok with melon cubes and watermelon, cucumber, strawberry and mint juice for a refreshing and summer mix, so we will enjoy the water, potassium, magnesium and calcium, carotenoids, vitamin A and vitamin E that you surely need after a long hot day.

Groksì
06 aprile 2016
Dr.ssa Elisabetta Orsi

Dr. Elisabetta Orsi
Naturopath Nutritionist

Nutrition expert Elisabetta Orsi

She has been dealing with nutrition and natural therapy during twenty years, basing her own philosophy on one simple rule: a natural diet and regular physical activities are essential for a healthy lifestyle.
Her philosophy is based on Nutraceutics or functional food, much more useful in synthesis integration because foods naturally rich in...

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She has been dealing with nutrition and natural therapy during twenty years, basing her own philosophy on one simple rule: a natural diet and regular physical activities are essential for a healthy lifestyle.
Her philosophy is based on Nutraceutics or functional food, much more useful in synthesis integration because foods naturally rich in beneficial properties in a complete and balanced diet act as prevention and health maintenance factors improving the athlete’s performance.
She worked as a service manager dietary for the S. Raffaele Hospital in Milan from 1985 to 1995.
During those same years she collaborated with A.C. Milan in the nutritional aspects of the first team.
She collaborated (1992-95) with the FISI (Italian Winter Sports Federation) in nutritional and integration programs for athletes, including MAIO, BELMODO and DI CENTA.
In 1998 she founded QI STUDIO s.r.l., an integrated medicine centre that offers natural nutritional choices, care and prevention programs and exclusive diagnostic protocols in order to evaluate the overall well-being of the individual.
She collaborated since 2000 with Dr. Gabriele Rosa of the Marathon Centre of Brescia (from 2000 to this date), is an expert in sports nutrition, and has followed for years and still follows professional and amateur athletes belonging to different disciplines.

She was involved in:

  • The Parliamentarians in Shape project, developing nutritional programs for Italian Parliament members training for the New York marathon
  • Preparation of a food program and integration to train for extreme marathons in the desert and in Alaska (Stefano Miglietti and Roberto Ghidoni)
  • Management of food programs for world marathon records
  • Marlene-Sport Project
  • Together with Gazzetta dello Sport, she has managed the nutritional aspect of the RUNNER CRUISE project (with participation of the Olympic marathon champion Lucilla Andreucci) in addition to promoting sport nutrition meetings
  • She followed the nutritional program and integration for TEAM ULTRA BOLIVIA RACE 2014 led by Katia Figini
  • She was official nutritionist of the Italian National Football team of the F.I.G.C (Italian Football Federation) for the World Cup 2014
  • She participated, upon an invitation of Minister Maurizio Martina, to the thematic table “FOOD SPORT WELL-BEING” to draw up the MILAN CARD for EXPO 2015
  • She is following the lone sailor Mario Girelli in his next challenge around the world with no stops and assistance
  • She promotes corporate projects focusing on spreading well-being awareness by means of courses, programs and collaborations, such as Galbusera and San Lucio
  • She is responsible for Autogrill SPA of Good for Me, a project to foster nutritional education
  • She is following the Megared One step for the heart project