Does juicing help detox or is it just a fad?

1001 detox juice recipes

On the TikTok channel NTG health shared: "Currently, every day people put into their bodies a lot of dirty food, polluted water sources and all the things around us that unintentionally create toxins that settle in the body. The detoxification formula includes celery, red apples, ginger".

MA account shares a 7-day body detox recipe. The first day's recipe includes 4 carrots (300g), 2 cucumbers, 1/2 pineapple, 1 piece of ginger. The second day's recipe includes 500g squash, half a pineapple...

Nước ép có giúp thải độc hay chỉ là trào lưu?- Ảnh 1. — Detox instructions with fruit juice

PNQ account shares a 6-day detox recipe. You will drink it 3 times a day, morning, noon and night. The morning starts with the first recipe with 300g of parsley, 1 cucumber, 1 small apple. According to Ms. Q., recently there have been many opinions that juice is not good because it contains a lot of sugar. If so, it is because you have not experienced and received the right results that juice brings. If the recipe has 50-100% sweet fruit, it is not really good, but if it only has 20% fruit to create sweetness, 80% vegetables, it is completely good for the body.

'Detoxification is not the function of juice, but of the liver and kidneys'

Associate Professor - Doctor - Doctor Lam Vinh Nien, Head of the Department of Nutrition - Dietetics, University of Medicine and Pharmacy Hospital, Ho Chi Minh City, said that fruit and vegetable juices contain many vitamins and minerals, but their purpose is to provide micronutrients for the body, not to detoxify or remove toxins. The function of detoxifying the body lies in other organs such as the liver.

"In addition, abusing juice to replace main meals will lead to severe malnutrition. Because juice only provides enough vitamins and micronutrients for the body but lacks energy and other nutrients. Therefore, if you use juice to detoxify according to the trend, it will be harmful to the body. Instead, choose a diverse and balanced diet that will bring many benefits to the body," Dr. Vinh Nien shared.

Nước ép có giúp thải độc hay chỉ là trào lưu?- Ảnh 2. — On social networking sites, many people share detox juice recipes as a magical method to help purify and detoxify the body.

Sharing the same opinion, Dr. Le Nhat Duy, University of Medicine and Pharmacy Hospital, Ho Chi Minh City - Branch 3, said that juice from vegetables and fruits can provide a large amount of vitamins, minerals and antioxidants, helping to support metabolism and improve overall health, but there is no clear medical evidence to prove that drinking juice will help "detoxify" the body. Detoxification is not the function of juice, but of the liver and kidneys.

According to Dr. Duy, drinking too much juice, especially fruit juice with natural sugar (fructose), can lead to increased blood sugar, increasing the risk of diabetes and obesity.

"In addition, some cases of replacing main meals with juice can cause a deficiency of protein, fiber and some other essential nutrients, seriously affecting health in the long term," Dr. Duy emphasized.

According to Dr. Duy, body detoxification depends mainly on internal organs, and they work naturally without intervention from the products or methods mentioned above.