Superfood Fruit and Vegetable Tea

Superfood fruit and vegetable tea is neither a "universal drink" that can whiten skin, lose weight, or cure constipation as marketed by merchants, nor is it an IQ tax that relies entirely on marketing - its essence is a fruit and vegetable nutritional supplement tool in a fast-paced life. The premise of being useful is that you choose the right formal formula without additives and use it in the right situation to make up for daily nutritional gaps. If you blindly believe in the "miraculous effect" advertised, or buy low-quality supplements, it is better to just drink boiled water.

I have been running a snack shop for almost 4 years. I have adjusted no less than 300 fruit and vegetable tea recipes, and the holes I have stepped on can fit half a refrigerator. I am familiar with the two schools of thought that are currently quarreling on the Internet: one school says that after drinking it for half a month, constipation is relieved and the face becomes brighter; the other school says that all nutrients of freeze-dried fruits and vegetables are lost, and a bunch of sugar is added, just like cutting leeks. To be honest, both statements are correct and neither is correct, it all depends on how you use it.

For example, the audit girl who often came to my store a while ago ate takeout for three days in a row while working on a project, without even touching a bite of vegetables. The corners of her mouth were so rotten that it hurt to speak. I stuffed her with a few bags of additive-free prickly pear and kale and asked her to drink a glass of it with water every day. Three days later, she came around to tell me that her ulcer was gone. Do you think this fruit and vegetable tea is so amazing? It's really not the case. It's just that the vitamin C and dietary fiber she lacked before have been supplemented. To change the scene, if you are at home on the weekend, with freshly cut sunshine roses and cherry tomatoes on the fruit plate, and washed lettuce on hand, and you still have to make a cup of fruit and vegetable tea as a nutritional supplement, it is really unnecessary and purely paying IQ tax.

Oh, by the way, the problem of nutrient loss that everyone is most concerned about, I specially asked a friend who does food testing to test different batches of goods: Dried fruits and vegetables made by the regular FD freeze-drying process can retain more than 90% of vitamins and dietary fiber, and the nutrients will be lost much less than if you fry the vegetables until they are soft or boil them until they turn yellow. But don’t buy the ones that cost 9.9 yuan for a large pack and have white sugar and fructose syrup in the top three ingredients list, as well as those that use high-temperature drying instead of freeze-drying. I bought a batch of them on the cheap the year before last, and they had an oxidized smell of rotten fruit. The measured vitamin C content was not as much as a mouthful of fresh lemon. I lost two thousand dollars by throwing them all away. I still remember the pain.

The recipe I often recommend to my regular customers is actually very simple. It is not a pile of more than a dozen superfoods advertised on the Internet. 3-4 types are enough: for cold brewing, add 1 piece of freeze-dried prickly pear + 2 slices of kale + 3 freeze-dried blueberries. The brew has a touch of fruit acid and no grassy smell at all. In summer, add a cube of ice and it is better than drinking half-sugar milk tea. A cup of Vitamin C can top 3 fresh oranges, and the dietary fiber is enough to equal half a box of lettuce. Don't believe the ones that are added with chia seeds and konjac powder and claim to be a meal replacement. I tried it myself and suffered acid reflux all afternoon. I really want to fill you up with a hard-boiled egg. It's better than anything else.

A friend who is a nutritionist also argued with me before, saying that even if freeze-drying retains nutrients, it is not as good as the active enzymes of fresh fruits and vegetables. I 100% agree with this. If you can spare 10 minutes every day to wash fruits and cut vegetables and ensure that you eat one pound of vegetables and half a pound of fruits a day, then there is no need to touch fruit and vegetable tea. But most of us are 996, and it’s past 9 o’clock when we get home from get off work. We don’t even want to wash our faces, so how can we have the energy to do all this? Fruit and vegetable tea is originally used to "fill leaks" for these people. It has never been used to replace fresh fruits and vegetables. If you don't understand this positioning, you will definitely be deceived by marketing accounts.

By the way, some parents have asked me before if they can give it to their children, but I usually dissuade them directly. Children have delicate stomachs and can chew apples and bananas directly, so avoid these processed ones. Even if they are without additives, they are not as easy to digest as fresh ones. There are also those who claim that "you can lose 10 pounds in a week" or "you can whiten your skin by three degrees in a month", you can just leave. If there is such a wonderful thing, the nutrition department of the hospital doesn't even need to open it, right?

To put it bluntly, this thing is a convenient nutritional supplement. If you use it as a substitute for milk tea or as a first-aid when you are too busy to eat fruits and vegetables, it is very cost-effective. If you use it as a magic tool to become beautiful and slim, you will definitely be disappointed. After all, there is no such thing as a good thing.