if you use loads of friut in a smootie why doesnt it count as many fruit portions??

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I thought it did.
Innocent smoothies always have the number of fruit portions on the bottle and (if I remember correctly) an average serving is 2.5 fruit portions.

Fruit is best when it isn't blended as the fibres break down when it is. Smoothies are fine but should only really count towards one portion of fruit and veg a day.

Yes your body should be doing the work of breaking down the fibre, not the blender.

I know juice doesn't count as it is only the juice, not the fibre. So if you make a smoothie with 'blended' fruit it should count, but since you always need to add something like apple juice to thin it out it doesn't count. I make juices sometimes which I can only count as 1 portion, but if I add strawberries and whizz it in a blender, then I count a 2nd portion IYKWIM

Don't the fibres break down when you chew fruit?

Anyway, surely lots of smoothie and a tiny bit of veg is better than tiny bit of smoothie and tiny bit of veg? Smoothie must still have all the vitamins, anti-oxidants etc.

In any case, for most people, aren't smoothies too expensive to buy and too fiddly to make as an ongoing several-times-a-day contribution to a staple diet?

To my mind this is one of the finer points of helathy eating to wory about once you are already living the near perfect concern-free life

They do Blu, but not to the same extent. Most food is not the consistency of a smoothie before we swallow it!

The fibre is a big part of what 5-a-day is about. High fibre diets reduce appetite, reduce risk of bowel cancer, slow sugar absorption etc etc.