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Fruit has a lot of sugar in it, too. Do you avoid fruit as well?
by eliben 11y ago
Fruit has a lot of sugar in it, too. Do you avoid fruit as well?
- Dolores12 11y agoSugar in fruits is not added sugar.
- eliben 11y agoIt actually is. Except it's not added between growing and fruit and consuming it, but before growing the fruit. Fruit have been bred and genetically engineered for high sugar content for millennia. ... none of this is to bash fruit - they are definitely a much better alternative to sugary drinks and even fruit juices, due to their low glycemic load. But still, it's important to remember that fruit, especially some fruit, are far from being sugar free.
- Dolores12 11y agoAdded sugars refers to sugar carbohydrates added to food and beverages during their production.(artificially) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Added_sugar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Added_sugar
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- kyle_t 11y agoFruit does not have added sugar and the fiber in fruit helps slow the digestion of the fructose greatly dampening the negative effects of the sugar. Plus fruit is loaded with naturally occurring vitamins essential to the human body.
- voidlogic 11y ago1. Fruit is not healthy in large quantities. (Everything in moderation?) 2. If you eat fruit in its natural form (with the fiber etc), it has a much lower glycemic index than processed. Also consider the glycemic index and load of an apple is much lower than a potato. Its worth noting that in the form of something like a smoothy, a person can consume more fruit than would be possible eating actual fruit. Imagine a counter top of fruit turning into a single large smoothy...
- debacle 11y agoDried fruit is also incredibly deceptive.
- hristov 11y agoFruit is perfectly healthy in large quantities if it is raw with nothing added. The human body is very capable of processing the sugars in fruit. It's when those sugars get extracted and concentrated we run into trouble. Juices and smoothies are more dangerous because they concentrate the sugars while removing fiber. This decreases the liver's ability to process the sugar. But actual refined sugar is most dangerous.
- nightski 11y agoDo you have any evidence to back this up? Glucose is glucose and fructose is fructose as far as I know. There are no fundamental chemical changes.
- hristov 11y agoYou should check out Dr. Lustig's youtube videos and his papers. He cites plenty of evidence. He also explains the mechanism by which fructose is processed by the liver, and why the fructose in fruits does not cause problems.
- vonmoltke 11y agoAh, Lustig. Many of his fellow doctors are not on board with his conclusions: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-katz-md/sugar-health-evil-toxic_b_850032.html http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-katz-md/sugar-health-evi...
- jryan49 11y agoI've read a few papers that suggest our bodies absorb sugars differently in the presence of other chemicals that are present in the fruits themselves, but not in the processed versions? I think this is one of those papers? http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2871121/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2871121/
- lasryaric 11y agoI eat fruit but I don't drink fruit juice. Today I prefer to eat a whole orange than drinking an orange juice.
- EC1 11y agoLet's all give ourselves a pat on the back for eating fruit.
- thrownaway2424 11y agoThat statement seems to draw a narrow definition of "fruit". Olives have no sugar. Tomatoes and cucumbers have very little. All three are fruits and good staples in any diet.
- xsmasher 11y agoUsing the botanical definition in a culinary context doesn't make any sense.
- thrownaway2424 11y agoAlright, let's just go with olives alone, then.