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We don't add sugar to any of our smoothies. Fruit, however, contains natural sugars (fructose). And as our smoothies are made from nothing but fruit they therefore contain these natural fruit sugars.

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

The quantity of sugar found in a smoothie depends on the fruits (you'll find the amounts in the nutritional information on the individual drinks pages on this site) but each of our smoothies contains around the same amount of natural fruit sugar as a large banana.

Another positive point to note is that the fructose is combined with the presence of fibre - this means that our smoothies have a low glycaemic index (GI) value. Thus 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.

An innocent smoothie is made of nothing but fruit. It therefore contains lots of the stuff that fruit contains –amazing vitamins, minerals, phytoprotectants and the sugar that occurs naturally within fruit.

Getting your five a day is a good way of ensuring that you are healthy overall. And it definitely helps with gum disease.

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 and keeping a healthy balanced diet, you should be ok. But we definitely aren’t dentists. So if you are worried, you should ask their advice.

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.

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

So the main thing we’d like to say is that 250ml gives you two portions of fruit, and common sense applies – as your mum would say, everything in moderation.