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Watermelon, bananas, melon. These fruits are basically water + sugar + pulp in convenient packaging.
by jtreminio 8y ago
Watermelon, bananas, melon. These fruits are basically water + sugar + pulp in convenient packaging.
- alphagrep12345 8y agoAre you saying they're okay to eat? Or not?
- meruru 8y agoHe's saying they are basically sugar, so not okay. Strawberries are a good fruit to eat. Edit: The graph here is pretty helpful https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fruit#Nutritional_value https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fruit#Nutritional_value Unfortunately it doesn't show the amount of sugar in each fruit.
- jtreminio 8y agoI'm sure you're an adult and can make your own choices, so don't take what I said as meaning "Don't eat this!". Just an observation that fruits are delicious _because_ they are so high in sugar. I have to avoid all fruits since I am on the keto diet. My mouth waters thinking about a cantaloupe drink, but if I drank even 4oz I'd be undoing a lot of work. I wouldn't eat fruits if I needed fiber, for that I would just add some psyllium husk to a drink.
- newnewpdro 8y agoRipened bananas sure, but bananas that are still at least a bit green instead contain a lot of resistant starch which functions like dietary fiber and works miracles for the bowels. The sugar content of bananas is highly variable with ripeness.
- gnicholas 8y agoDo less-ripe fruits contain fewer calories, and somehow “gain calories” as they ripen? Is energy transformed from less-digestible forms like complex carbohydrates or fibers into simpler sugars? I have long wondered about this.
- newnewpdro 8y agoYes. The resistant starch in bananas is essentially unavailable filler, but when ripened enzymes turn it into sugar. A green banana has medicinal value; you can use it to stop (or prevent) diarreah because of the resistant starch. But when ripe the effect is gone.