So I bought a NutriBullet recently and have been pretty satisfied with it recently
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There's nothing particularly magical about it, it's just a blender, albeit a pretty powerful one which can turn everything, even seeds and peanuts, into a smooth liquid consistency. Of course, it's being advertised as a NUTRIENT EXTRACTOR which is obvious bullshit since it simply blends up the stuff you throw in it. So, disregarding the marketing hype, what's so good about it?
1) Shakes are incredibly convenient. Drinking your food compared to eating it is faster and the food is absorbed into your body way quicker. Which is good because if you've ever had to bulk the proper way (not just randomly eating whatever to get into a calorie surplus but actually eating the needed amount of protein etc.) then you know that you'll feel bloated and full most of the day with a full stomach, which isn't the most comfortable of feelings.
2) Don't have to prepare the food you throw into it because it'll simply liquify it anyway.
3) Closely related to point 2): because no food prep is needed, and all tastes are blended into one mixture, you can actually start "eating" veggies that you'd be too lazy/too disgusted/too disinterested to eat otherwise. Stuff like beets, turnips, brocolli, celery, ginger roots, colesaw, kale, different seeds, whatever you can throw it in, mix in some source of sweetness like an apple or banana and voila, you have a mixture that tastes well.
4) It's not juicing. Why is it good? Why are veggies so good for us: because of the minerals and the non-soluble fibres which aid in digestion. When you just extract the juice, you probably reduce the vitamins by half and completely eliminate the fibres. So basically you're just making very wasteful high carb drinks. No point in doing that if you can get the benefit of the whole veggies by simply blending them. If you add enough water into the blender, you'll get your sugar drink alright.
5) Protein drinks will never be the same. Of course just blending whey into milk to make it creamy is one thing, but why stop there? Blend like 250g of greek yoghurt (which is pure protein) and you're already getting a milkshake.
6) Good for bulking and getting calories in you. Today I made a nice "let's start the day" calorie shake. Bananas, frozen fruits, greek yoghurt, whey, olive oil (yes, you put about 20-30g of it in it and you won't even taste it, but it adds some needed calories), peanuts, grated coconut, chia seeds, milk, ananas and carrots. 1500cals, went down easy, felt full the first 20 minutes, then that feeling went away. Not hungry at all, but also no bloated feeling like I would've had if I ate 400g of meat with rice or other side dishes.
7) Good for cutting and getting satiated without putting much calories into you. That same shake can be made to be ridiculously low caloric if you just switch some things up. Put some Spinach, Brocolli, Celery, Beetroot, Water, Apple, Ginger or whatever you want into it, it'll be still very satiating but a smooth consistency and will total about 400calories. Same as a water 1L bottle of Cola or some Energy Drink, but what a big difference in satiation and ingridients!
8) Can make your own flour, oatmeal or shredd some other things.
tl;dr Blending feels good man
There's nothing particularly magical about it, it's just a blender, albeit a pretty powerful one which can turn everything, even seeds and peanuts, into a smooth liquid consistency. Of course, it's being advertised as a NUTRIENT EXTRACTOR which is obvious bullshit since it simply blends up the stuff you throw in it. So, disregarding the marketing hype, what's so good about it?
1) Shakes are incredibly convenient. Drinking your food compared to eating it is faster and the food is absorbed into your body way quicker. Which is good because if you've ever had to bulk the proper way (not just randomly eating whatever to get into a calorie surplus but actually eating the needed amount of protein etc.) then you know that you'll feel bloated and full most of the day with a full stomach, which isn't the most comfortable of feelings.
2) Don't have to prepare the food you throw into it because it'll simply liquify it anyway.
3) Closely related to point 2): because no food prep is needed, and all tastes are blended into one mixture, you can actually start "eating" veggies that you'd be too lazy/too disgusted/too disinterested to eat otherwise. Stuff like beets, turnips, brocolli, celery, ginger roots, colesaw, kale, different seeds, whatever you can throw it in, mix in some source of sweetness like an apple or banana and voila, you have a mixture that tastes well.
4) It's not juicing. Why is it good? Why are veggies so good for us: because of the minerals and the non-soluble fibres which aid in digestion. When you just extract the juice, you probably reduce the vitamins by half and completely eliminate the fibres. So basically you're just making very wasteful high carb drinks. No point in doing that if you can get the benefit of the whole veggies by simply blending them. If you add enough water into the blender, you'll get your sugar drink alright.
5) Protein drinks will never be the same. Of course just blending whey into milk to make it creamy is one thing, but why stop there? Blend like 250g of greek yoghurt (which is pure protein) and you're already getting a milkshake.
6) Good for bulking and getting calories in you. Today I made a nice "let's start the day" calorie shake. Bananas, frozen fruits, greek yoghurt, whey, olive oil (yes, you put about 20-30g of it in it and you won't even taste it, but it adds some needed calories), peanuts, grated coconut, chia seeds, milk, ananas and carrots. 1500cals, went down easy, felt full the first 20 minutes, then that feeling went away. Not hungry at all, but also no bloated feeling like I would've had if I ate 400g of meat with rice or other side dishes.
7) Good for cutting and getting satiated without putting much calories into you. That same shake can be made to be ridiculously low caloric if you just switch some things up. Put some Spinach, Brocolli, Celery, Beetroot, Water, Apple, Ginger or whatever you want into it, it'll be still very satiating but a smooth consistency and will total about 400calories. Same as a water 1L bottle of Cola or some Energy Drink, but what a big difference in satiation and ingridients!
8) Can make your own flour, oatmeal or shredd some other things.
tl;dr Blending feels good man
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