STILL having trouble understanding 5-a-day

[bednobs]

Hi i asked on here about smoothies before (as innocent count their smoothies as 2 portions of fruit in a serving but you are only supposed to count 1 juice per day) Anyway the consensus was that smoothies can count as 2 because it's whole fruit, just pulped/pressed. But now i want to know if i can have, say, an orange juice on top of that and count it as 1. So for example if i had the following :
1 glass of orange juice (1)
1 glass of smoothie (2)
1 portion of baked beans (1)
1 portion of salad (1)
I could say i've had my five a day?

[mummyh]

My understanding has always been that smoothies have more of the good stuff in because they're pulp, so i would count the glass of juice as 1 separate portion. I'm not sure why you can only count the first glass of juice though...

[Buenchico]

Yes. See the NHS website (and, if you want further information, use the email address which has been set up specifically for queries like yours):
http://www.nhs.uk/Liv...Pages/Whatcounts.aspx

Chris

[seadogg]

http://www.nhs.uk/Liv...atcounts.aspx#comment

Think this covers it bednobs. Personally never touch smoothies but they can count up to 2 and the orange juice (150ml) counts in its own right.
Dont think you will take much harm from that lot!

[seadogg]

Orange juice is low in fibre so its only 1 unit however much you drink mummy

[B00]

I read /heard somewhere t'other day that we should be on 8 a day not 5.

[Sqad]

Tell me ....do you really think that it matters whether you have 3,4 or 6 a day?

As long as your daily diet consists of fruit and vegetables, then that is the important factor.

This "5 a day" is a nonsense in my opinion.

[LoftyLottie]

I usually easily eat 8 portions a day without even trying. I loves me fruit and veg!! No problem at all!! I should be lean and healthy!! Something has gone wrong.

[bednobs]

hi squad, i find it really useful to have somegthing to aim for, and also if i make sure i get the 5 i find i'm not that hungry for the crap i normally eat

[Sqad]

bednobs...fine.

[LoftyLottie]

I tend to agree with Sqad, but see what you are saying bednobs. I seriously don't have to make any effort at all to stuff myself with Veg. Fruit doesn't tempt me as much but I eat it. I think cheese is my biggest problem! I could eat cheese for England. I don't though!! I also eat loads of fish!!

[237SJ]

I agree the five a day thing is not as crucial as we are led to believe. People didn`t get five a day veg during the war, they hardly had any veg at all unless it was home grown and I don`t see that generation dying of heart disease/cancer anymore than anyone else. Humans are by nature hunter/gatherers and they would eat a little bit of everything. It`s the same as the 8 glasses of water a day myth. Dreamed up by the food fascists.

[bednobs]

lol thanks for all your help and opinions :)

[Zeuhl]

5 a day is a figure snatched from the air.

Personally, I would aim for 8 a day but include;

fruit pastilles
tomato ketchup
Mr Kiplings apple pies

and a fruity Merlot
.

[Sqad]

Zeuhl......LOL.....LOL

[seadogg]

We had a healthy diet on the whole and us kids got orange juice and cod liver oil. Fewer people were clueless at making a nourishing meal from simple ingredients

[DTCwordfan]

sounds like your toilet has too...........

[Mamyalynne]

Careful Zeuhl that is very nearly cake!!

[LoftyLottie]

And we had loads of exercise and we had to eat what was put in front of us, which was usually stews with loads of root veg. We didn't have any opportunity to be faddy. We ate fatty dumpling, and suet puddings and pork dripping, but somehow people didn't get fat, they worked it all off!!

[LoftyLottie]

I think that cake should be mentioned in every thread on AB from now on. It should be a site rule!! ;o)

[ttfn]

carrot cake
date and walnut cake