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Celebrity trainer Harley Pasternak is back on Instagram with another PSA about "fake healthy" foods [2], and this time he's really coming for us with facts about juice.
"It's dessert," he says in his video. "It's delicious" and "it's a great natural dessert," but "it's not part of a regular healthy diet." Harley [3] compared juicing vegetables and fruits to juicing "salmon," describing "the pink water that falls on the plate" as "salmon water," not salmon "juice." We can't help but agree — while we love a delicious fresh juice (it's absolutely better than a soda), it's not a meal, and you're definitely missing out on fiber from the whole fruit or vegetable.
Juice is really just sugar, he explained, as "the majority of the nutrients are left behind [when you juice] — both macro [5] and micro" (think: healthy fats, protein, carbohydrates, vitamins, and minerals). Additionally, just one glass "counts as your daily intake of sugar — not worth it." Harley suggests leaving the juice for "that special Sunday brunch" and making a smoothie [6] instead to get delicious fruits and veggies with fiber and nutrients [7]. "BLEND, great. Juice, no."