Juice your veggies, eat your fruits

Starch is glucose molecules joined together in chains with glycoside bonds (an oxygen molecule replacing the hydroxyl molecule to join the cyclic glucose molecules at the #1 or #4 carbon position. We possess the enzyme to do that (break that bond). It likely will not effectively break with the shear action provided by a blender or juicer. - It takes the enzyme to catalyze the reaction.

You didn't ask, but we don't possess the enzyme to break the bond in cellulose. The angle of attachment of the oxygen atom is different and it requires a different enzyme to break it. Cows don't have that enzyme either. The bacteria that live in their (Low acid) first stomach (rumen bacteria) produce the enzyme (cellulase) that will break the oxygen bond angle of cellulose.

When we eat fiber, it goes right through us untouched because we can't break the molecular bonds. Without that first stomach, cows would be the same, and probably wouldn't eat grass. Or they would die of starvation if they did.

I never answered your question. I don't agree with that. However, my favorite way to eat an apple is to take a bite and not drink it, unless we're talking Angry Orchard Hard Cider, and then I like it just fine.

If my old guy memory is correct, there is no fructose in starch. Starch is all glucose. Carbon count is the same for both fructose and glucose but bonding structure is different.

I never liked those photos of brewmasters doing their stuff.

You'd have to be an idiot to draw out a glass of brew (or hard cider) and then pour it down the drain.

I have no experience, but common sense tells me that if no one is looking, they drink that glass of amber fluid after drawing it off the batch.

Also, never trust a brewmaster who is skinny or can walk straight. Obviously, they are not doing their job properly.

Always liked the Budweiser, Pabst and Sam Adams guys they show on commercials drawing the sample, looking at the bubbles and smiling. The smile means that when (as soon as) the camera turns away, the sample is going between the lips and down the throat.

Hard cider is a lovely way of preserving apples for future consumption.