Hope this isnt a dumb question. would i be getting any less nutritional value by blending my breakfast into a shake in the morning as apose to eating it whole?
ex: 1 cup oats, 1 banana, 1 pint milk, 1 scoop vanilla whey, 1 table spoon peanut butter.
the reason is i ask is because someone posted something like this in the oats good/bad forum(not sure the actual name) the other day and apparently eating it whole instead of blending it. if i dont lose nutrional value this is gonna be my most common breakfast. thanks in advance…
I’m pretty sure you lose the fiber when bleding somehow, but other than that nothing changes nutritionally. Jonny Bowden in his book always said that the downside for blending different veggies together is you lose the fiber.
i know when you use some of those juicers you lose some nutritional value. maybe if i just make the shake and then mix in the oats. anyways thanks. if i find out a for sure answer somewhere else ill post it. thanks for the input.
p.s. pb andy if your in the service thanks for that too, man.
It won’t lose any nutritional value by blending everything. Juicing is a different story.
I take my morning shake with me for my 40 minute drive to work. Eating a bowl of hot oatmeal and eggs while navigating through rush hour traffic is overrated.
[quote]JN7844 wrote:
It won’t lose any nutritional value by blending everything. Juicing is a different story.
I take my morning shake with me for my 40 minute drive to work. Eating a bowl of hot oatmeal and eggs while navigating through rush hour traffic is overrated.
well its not letting me pull up the link, oh well. well i feel more confident doing it this way, i can throw other stuff in their too and experiment. then on sunday cheat days do the whole eggs, bacon, pancakes w/ peanut butter and syrup thing. man i’m getting hungry. thanks again
I’m not sure why the link isn’t working. Here’s the recipe as written by Waterbury:
The Super Protein Shake
I put an apple and a handful of raw broccoli in my protein shakes every morning. Yep, you read that right. The sweetness of the apple offsets the “unsweetness” of the broccoli. With the following combination, you won’t even know the broccoli’s in there, but your health and body fat levels will thank you. Mix in 16-20 ounces of water in a blender:
Blending food for breakfast is a great option, generally you can always consume more food when in liquid form and I know I couldn’t eat as much solid food as I do liquid when I wake up.
The only thing I can think of that might make a difference would be digestion time.
I know Berardi wrote an article reguarding protein absorption as a shake as opposed to solid. Its just because as a liquid, your body doesnt have time to process all the nutrients as theyre kind of like half digested already and will pass them through the body faster.
I do not know if this applies to you since you have oatmeal to slow things down in there and a banana and some PB. Good stuff