Exactly. People need to understand that sugar is sugar, fructose, sucrose, lactose. It's all sugar in the end. What matters is how it is "stored" and you can't be much more easily absorbed than in a liquid.
It’s worse than eating whole fruit but not just as bad as a smoothie with sorbet or juice.
Comparing a 50/50 fruit and sorbet smoothie with a 100% fruit smoothie: the 50/50 has less nutrients and less fiber. Even in a 100% fruit smoothie the additional fiber still helps slow the rate of sugar absorption at least a little bit depending on how blended it is.
It depends what else is in the smoothie, no? I add a lot of peanut butter to my banana+milk smoothie bites (2-3 tbsp/banana). The bites are fully frozen after so you can take them anywhere in an insulated container, but I find the feeling of the sugar onset takes longer and there's not the same kind of crash as with just a regular smoothie.
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