Robert Lustig on Whole Fruit Instead of Fruit Juice: recommends

Dr. Robert Lustig recommends eating whole fruit rather than drinking fruit juice. He says fruit is healthy because its fiber is “food for your microbiome,” while juice lacks that fiber — and, he says, fiber is “actually the good part of the fruit.”

His stated reasoning is that removing the fiber turns fruit into a sugar delivery system: without fiber to slow absorption and feed gut bacteria, the sugars in juice behave more like the added sugars he warns against. (For his corresponding warning against fruit juice, see “Robert Lustig on Fruit Juice: warns against.”)

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