Innocent drinks

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So another brand proves that they’re not keen on women having thoughts

Do you not remember the things you post from one day to the next?

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(I'm not after a deletion/strike so I'll make do with the smiley.)

I love the patience and the humour on these boards, I really do.

Thanks to this thread I just learned that drinking a small bottle of Innocent smoothie equals eating 3 and a half doughnuts. Oh wow. That is disgusting.
www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2301135/15-WORST-health-drinks-Orange-juice-Innocent-smoothies-sugar-13-Hobnobs-3-half-doughnuts.html

Thanks to this thread I just learned that drinking a small bottle of Innocent smoothie equals eating 3 and a half doughnuts. Oh wow. That is disgusting

Shitting hell. No wonder, as a 'health brand' they've completely bought into the idea of self-ID.

Oh great, now I want a doughnut

Eating one doughnut will be healthier than drinking that anyway

Shockingly, Innocent's response to that DM article is still misleading and in some cases downright wrong:

"MANUFACTURER'S RESPONSE:
Innocent smoothies are made from nothing but pure, crushed fruit and juice, with absolutely no sugar added. Our smoothies contain all the good stuff that fruit does (like fibre and vitamin C).

As a standard 250ml serving of one of our smoothies contains two portions of fruit, (i.e. two of your 5-a-day), the sugars found in it are the same as the amount found in two portions of fruit (a banana and another portion of fruit)."

It's irrelevant that they haven't added sugar because the sugar is already in the drink - the doughnut makers might as well say "doughnuts with as much sugar as is in the doughnut, with no more sugar added". It's nonsense.

Smoothies do not contain all the fibre that is in the fruit - that is the problem. The fibre in fruit means that it is absorbed more slowly, preventing the blood sugar spike created by necking 33g of sugar.

A banana and an apple combined do not contain 33g of sugar, unless they are talking about a very big banana and a very big apple.

The five portions a day reference is also wrong and misleading. 'Five portions' is questionable in the first place, but if you want to use that measure, a smoothie can only count as one of your five, and there is no acknowledgement that more than one of the smoothies in the article would double your recommended daily sugar intake.

Basically this company is Goop, but founded by men, and successful in the FMCG market, so not so easy to mock.

Sports vegetables with added electrolytes (from all natural sources).

Smoothies do not contain all the fibre that is in the fruit - that is the problem.

Also, someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I've always assumed it matters to sugar absorption whether the fruit's structures are more or less intact. Eating an orange isn't the same as drinking its juice and then eating the pulp separately, which seems to be pretty much equivalent to what happens with a smoothie.

Thanks to this thread I just learned that drinking a small bottle of Innocent smoothie equals eating 3 and a half doughnuts.

Nasty 🤢 it's certainly been an education. No way am i buying those anymore. Well I wouldn't anyway tbh, not after they have shown what they really think about women's concerns. But this really is the icing on the cake (or doughnut, as the case may be)

@merrymouse

Sports vegetables with added electrolytes (from all natural sources).

This is brilliant. I really want some sports vegetables, now.

Hush ladies. Your science-based hate spreading is spoiling the sunshiney happy vibe.

Wow, so I can eat donuts now and class them as a healthy alternative to smoothies? Excellent!

Errol you mentioned water. A few years ago Coke tried selling bottled water, but the press caught on to the fact that it was tap water they were trying to sell.
That didn't work out too well for them

I'm about to have a small, delicious, smoothie. Well, more of a lumpy but that's fine by me. It comes in environmentally friendly packaging, and the pulverisation is performed without any mechanical aids.

sports vegetables

nicking that

Sports vegetables with added electrolytes (from all natural sources).
Brilliant, just change the packaging and promote them to sporty, health-conscious people.

Wow, so I can eat donuts now and class them as a healthy alternative to smoothies? Excellent!

I think that's a very good argument for putting doughnuts in lunch boxes for school. Possibly 5 doughnuts as a healthy equivalent.

So if you buy a pack of 4 doughnuts, but one of them is sugar fluid & only half of it identifies as containing sugar, you can scoff the lot instead of having an Innocent smoothie?

I can get behind this idea, definitely.

Rolling at sports vegetables hahaha

Can you please stop knocking smoothies with factual information?

I bought one this morning from a rival cheaper competitor (although the innocent one next to it was currently on offer, making them temporarily the same price) and it was quite nice.

@CorvusPurpureus TBH I'd prefer a nice jam doughnut over an innocent smoothie anyway.

www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-suffolk-55904239
Made it to the BBC now. Interesting they actually quote some of her earlier "offensive" tweets and the apology from Suffolk police where they say they made a misjudgement in asking her to tone down her tweets 2 years ago.
Anyone reading those with some common sense will realise they're not phobic, e.g." gender's fashionable nonsense. Sex is real."

I'm so glad to see the BBC have reported this with a bit more fairness and less bias than I've come to expect from them.

Mind you, given that the story at the top of the 'most read' column is the horrifically distressing reports of systemic rape and torture of women in the Uighur camp, it would be breathtakingly stupid of them to present Margaret Nelson's claims that 'sex is real' as some sort of extremist stance.

Can you please stop knocking smoothies with factual information?

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