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**TughEmotteTug** · 03-09-2009, 02:25 AM

You can't put more calories or carbs into food by changing it without taking away from or adding to it.... if you take one raw apple and calculate the carbs/fat/protein then that is what is in it. Chop it, cook it, freeze it... the same. HOWEVER, processed (chopped, cooked, diced, mashed) can reduce the VOLUME of the food. That's why 1/2 cup of raw broccoli has fewer carbs (and therefore, calories... since calories are determined by the grams of fat, protein and carbohydrate in a food) than 1/2 cup cooked broccoli. That doesn't make raw broccoli "better". You're actually eating less broccoli when you eat 1/2 cup raw vs 1/2 cup cooked.

Processing foods doesn't make calories or carbohydrate more absorbable in the sense that your body gets more of it somehow. What processing does is make it easier for your body to DIGEST it... since part of the digestion is done before it even hits your mouth. If you drink your veggies your body doesn't have to chew in order to swallow and then break down the larger pieces in your gut. So digestion is FASTER. The fiber doesn't change, the nutrients don't change (the MICRONUTRIENTS may change when you heat a food, though), the calories don't change. Because it's partially digested, your stomach will empty much faster... and if there's any downfall, it's that you'll be hungry faster. And if you happened to be eating a high carb food, your body would absorb the glucose faster... and cause a larger insulin release. That's not good. But since we're not eating mashed potato we're ok.

As for making things easier on your digestive system... it might be that liquified veggies make the micro-nutrients more easily absorbed. Now THAT would be an advantage, wouldn't it?

03-09-2009, 02:25 AM	#11
TughEmotteTug Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 503 Senior Member	You can't put more calories or carbs into food by changing it without taking away from or adding to it.... if you take one raw apple and calculate the carbs/fat/protein then that is what is in it. Chop it, cook it, freeze it... the same. HOWEVER, processed (chopped, cooked, diced, mashed) can reduce the VOLUME of the food. That's why 1/2 cup of raw broccoli has fewer carbs (and therefore, calories... since calories are determined by the grams of fat, protein and carbohydrate in a food) than 1/2 cup cooked broccoli. That doesn't make raw broccoli "better". You're actually eating less broccoli when you eat 1/2 cup raw vs 1/2 cup cooked. Processing foods doesn't make calories or carbohydrate more absorbable in the sense that your body gets more of it somehow. What processing does is make it easier for your body to DIGEST it... since part of the digestion is done before it even hits your mouth. If you drink your veggies your body doesn't have to chew in order to swallow and then break down the larger pieces in your gut. So digestion is FASTER. The fiber doesn't change, the nutrients don't change (the MICRONUTRIENTS may change when you heat a food, though), the calories don't change. Because it's partially digested, your stomach will empty much faster... and if there's any downfall, it's that you'll be hungry faster. And if you happened to be eating a high carb food, your body would absorb the glucose faster... and cause a larger insulin release. That's not good. But since we're not eating mashed potato we're ok. As for making things easier on your digestive system... it might be that liquified veggies make the micro-nutrients more easily absorbed. Now THAT would be an advantage, wouldn't it?
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