Detoxifying and Cleansing Fruit and Vegetable Juice

There is no fruit and vegetable juice that can "detoxify". The so-called intestinal cleansing effect is essentially to supplement the dietary fiber that is insufficient in daily intake and promote intestinal peristalsis. It is neither the "miraculous weight-loss water" promoted on the Internet, nor is it a useless IQ tax. How you drink it and who you drink it to are much different than you think.

A few years ago, I opened a light food bar in Hangzhou. For three years, the best-selling item at the bar was various types of fruit and vegetable juices for intestinal cleansing. At most, I drank more than 40 cups a day. I have seen many situations, but I don't have so many black and white judgments about this thing.

What impressed me the most was a sophomore girl who came last summer, clutching a guide from Xiaohongshu. She asked for pure celery juice, without sugar or ice, and said she wanted to drink it for seven consecutive days to "fast and detoxify." I gave her some advice at the time, saying that pure celery juice was too cold and you'd better mix it with some apples or bananas to neutralize it, but she didn't listen and said that the blogger said it would have no effect if you add something else. As a result, on the third day, she was helped by her roommate and came to my store. Her face was pale and she said she had been having diarrhea all night and could not stand upright. I quickly made her a cup of warm rehydration salt and waited for a long time before she finally spoke. She said that she had indeed lost 4 pounds. I thought it was due to defecation, but now she feels dizzy even when walking.

In fact, I have heard about 80% of the debate about intestinal cleansing fruit and vegetable juices. Akai, a fitness instructor who often comes to my store, regards this as a "regret medicine". Every time after having sex with friends and eating hot pot, he will buy two cups of kale and apple juice the next day and say "scrape the oil in your stomach." His body fat rate remains at around 14% all year round. In addition to regular exercise, a glass of fruit and vegetable juice every day really helps him supplement his vegetable intake - after all, he is a big man from Shandong and really doesn't like to eat vegetables. But I accompanied a friend to the Union Nutrition Department to see constipation. The doctor said it more bluntly: There are no concepts of "detoxification" and "defecation" in medicine. Normal people's intestines can metabolize waste by themselves, and there is no need for additional "intestinal cleansing". If you only drink fruit and vegetable juices every day, it will lead to electrolyte imbalance due to lack of protein and fat. Long-term drinking will also make the intestines dependent, which will aggravate constipation.

Oh, yes, both of these statements are actually correct, but they are applicable to different groups of people. If you usually eat takeout and eat less than half a kilogram of vegetables a day, and it is difficult to have a bowel movement once a week if you are sedentary for a long time, drinking unsweetened fruit and vegetable juice appropriately can really help you supplement your dietary fiber, and the effect of relieving constipation is more obvious than taking ordinary probiotics. But if you have a balanced diet and eat enough vegetables, eggs, and milk every day, and you still want to drink fruit and vegetable juice to detoxify and lose weight, then you are simply paying an IQ tax, and you may even hurt your stomach.

I have been making fruit and vegetable juices for so many years, and there are several combinations that have been verified by hundreds of customers, and the error rate is almost zero: For example, if I had something heavy with oil and spicy food the day before, I would use 3 slices of kale + half a banana + half a red Fuji + 100ml of nothing. Sugared coconut milk is sweet and has no grassy smell at all. The soluble fiber of bananas can wrap up the residue in the intestines. If you drink a glass of it on an empty stomach in the morning, you can have a smooth bowel movement in basically half an hour. It will not cause you to break into a cold sweat like drinking pure celery juice. If you are an elderly person in the family or have a weak spleen and stomach and have diarrhea when drinking cold drinks, don't put ice. Use steamed small pumpkin + half a carrot + a small handful of spinach + 200ml of warm pure milk. It will have a warm and sweet aroma. My mother used to be constipated for almost ten years. After drinking this for half a month, she now goes to the toilet on time every morning, which is much more effective than taking medicine.

Don't believe those lies that say that drinking fruit and vegetable juices for 7 days can help you eliminate 10 pounds of feces. How did you get so much feces in your stomach? If you had really saved 10 pounds, you would have had an intestinal obstruction and gone to the hospital. The weight that fell off would be mostly water and muscle. Once you resume eating normally, the weight would be back in 3 days, and you might even be heavier than before. There is also the so-called intestinal cleansing fruit and vegetable juice with honey, syrup, and coconut added. One cup of it contains more sugar than Coke. Not to mention the intestinal cleansing, it actually makes you gain weight very quickly.

I often make fruit and vegetable juices at home. Yesterday I just made a cup with the remaining half red dragon fruit + half a banana + half a box of sugar-free yogurt. I drank it while watching variety shows. It was sweeter and tasted better than milk tea. I had smooth bowel movements this morning and no diarrhea. You have to say how amazing this thing is for detoxification. It really doesn’t. It’s healthier than drinking milk tea and eating ice cream. It can also make up for the vegetables you don’t eat every day. It’s that simple. Don't myth it, and don't beat it to death. Drinking it right is a good thing, but drinking it blindly will cause problems.