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We don't add sugar to any of our smoothies. Fruit, however, contains the natural sugars fructose, glucose and sucrose. And as our smoothies are made from nothing but fruit, they therefore only contain these natural sugars, most of which is fructose.

Sugar is an essential part of your diet. Natural fruit sugars are a valuable source of energy and bring with them the nutritional benefits of fruit, like the vitamins, antioxidants and fibre.

The quantity of sugar found in a smoothie depends on the fruits but each of our smoothies contains around the same amount of natural fruit sugar as 2 portions of fruit (i.e. medium size banana and another portion of fruit). You can find the exact nutritional information of all our smoothies on their individual pages of this website. You can get to them all by clicking here.

Another positive point to note is that the natural sugars combined with the presence of fibre help give our smoothies a low glycaemic index (GI) value. This means that the energy from our smoothies is released slowly over time, unlike sugars such as glucose, which has a high GI value and can raise blood sugar levels quickly.

If smoothies contain sugar, are they bad for your teeth?
An innocent smoothie is made of nothing but fruit, meaning it contains lots of the good stuff you find in fruit, like amazing vitamins, minerals and phytoprotectants as well as the sugar that occurs naturally within fruit. Getting your 5-a-day is a good way of ensuring that you are healthy overall and definitely helps with gum disease.

But basically, our advice is to drink a smoothie whenever you’d be comfortable eating a piece of fruit. As long as you are brushing your teeth twice a day, having regular check ups with your dentist and keeping a healthy balanced diet, you should be ok. But we’re definitely not dentists, so if you’re worried, make sure you ask yours about it next time you see them.

What we can tell you is that there is a new study being done by the Dental Research team at Leeds University all about this stuff, and their initial findings are that whole fruit and juices have a similar impact on your teeth. As soon as the final report is out, we’ll put up a link here.

Some of our drinkers have also let us know they drink our smoothies through a straw, whilst others stick to drinking them at mealtimes. A few have even said that eating cheese after drinking something like a smoothie can help with your dental health. Apparently.

The main thing we’d like to say is that 250ml of one of our smoothies gives you 2 portions of fruit, and after that, common sense applies. As your mum would say, everything in moderation.