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Sunday 12 April 2009

1, Appetite suppressing drinks: V8 vegetable juice and Smoothie


What kind of drinks helps Most drinks function to satisfy your thirst. But there’s one drink not only make you thirstless but also has the additional effect of appetite control. V8 vegetable juice and Smoothie are the most representative appetite suppressing beverages on the market.

V8 Vegetable Juice is a trademark name owned by the Campbell Soup Company for beverage products made from either eight vegetables or a mixture of both fruits and vegetables. A smoothie is a blended, chilled, sweet beverage made from fresh fruit. In addition to fruit juice, many smoothies include crushed ice, frozen fruit, or frozen yogurt. These drinks are thicker than slush drinks, but unlike milkshakes, they do not usually contain ice cream, but can contain milk.

A study found that drinking a glass of V8 vegetable juice or Smoothie 15 to 20 minutes before the meal helped reduce the calorie intake from food. This, to a large extent, is a mystery. But the researchers believe that it’s related with the density of the viscosity and calorie. However, don’t drink them during meals, it’ll lose afore-mentioned effectiveness.


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