Difference -Juices vs Smoothies

Everyday when you are up for breakfast, have you ever wondered if you can simply make a juice or a smoothy? Or has it ever occurred to you if getting a smoothie and a juice are the same thing. Is there a difference?

Yes, these are two very different things. Both are very healthy for you, and one isn’t better than the other, necessarily.

A smoothie is made in a blender. It’s blended, not juiced. With a smoothie, you retain the pulp (which is insoluble fiber). This can be either gross or good depending on what you’re blending. A blended drink yields a lot more because of the pulp, and some people like that, but others find it difficult to drink all of it.

Juice is juiced with a juicer. Juicers ‘juice’ your produce and separate the pulp (the insoluble fiber) from it. You discard the pulp and drink the juice. You still get fiber in the form of soluble fiber. I know, crazy, right? You just learned something new today.

Juicers are things not a nutribullet! A nutribullet is a blender that blends. Those blades chop things up like every blender works. It has pulp in it no matter how much you blend it. It can’t turn into juice unless you separate the juice from the pulp or you apply magic to it (like their marketing team does).

If you only have a blender and still want to juice, you still can! If you get a cheese cloth or something similar, you can strain your blended drink and turn it into juice. It’s a little more work and wont yield as much as a good juicer, but it’s something.

If you want to read more about juicing vs blending, take a look at the Juice Recipes website.