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By cutting out “fructose” surely you don’t mean cutting out fruit? Do mean derivatives like fructose syrup and stuff?
by rusk 6y ago
By cutting out “fructose” surely you don’t mean cutting out fruit? Do mean derivatives like fructose syrup and stuff?
- jjav 6y agoI avoid fructose, from any and all sources. Yes, it does mean limiting fruits but I eat them in moderation within my self-imposed 10g/day limit. I sometimes go up to 25g/day but only on special occasions no more than once a month or so. Here's one list of fructose content per type of fruit. I mostly stick to the ones with least fructose: http://nograiner.com/ingredients/fructose-content-common-fruits-chart http://nograiner.com/ingredients/fructose-content-common-fru...
- jkinudsjknds 6y agoWere fruits the thing most commonly cut out of your diet though? Most people (Americans at least) don't eat that much fruit, but eat a lot of fructose from other sources.
- ntsplnkv2 6y agoLooking at that list it seems easy to get in one or two servings of fruit a day with that fructose requirement, so long as you don't get it elsewhere. Thanks for sharing.
- AndrewDucker 6y agoI don't have gout, but my IBS is set off by fructose, and yes, I've had to drastically cut down on fruit. Fortunately, vegetables are even healthier for you, and don't have significant levels of fructose.
- simtel20 6y agoSince you mention IBS in the context of fructose, are you aware of the the phenomena of fructose malabsorption? My wife has this combination of issues at times, strongly related to eating or drinking of apples or apple juice and other similarly high fructose fruits and extracts like agave.
- AndrewDucker 6y agoYup. I follow a FODMAP diet and that really works for me.
- fodmap 6y agoI can vouch for the FODMAP diet as well, it really saved me from my daily misery.
- draw_down 6y agoI hadn’t heard of that but I have the same problem when I eat apples. Makes sense now.
- megablast 6y agoExactly. Such a weird thing to write. What were you eating too much of?
- Ragib_Zaman 6y agoMost fruit are nowhere near as healthy as most people expect they are. They have been selectively bred over many hundreds of years to be far larger, sweeter and more devoid of micronutrients than they were hundreds of years ago. The amount of sugar (especially fructose) in fruits like apples, oranges and bananas is shockingly high, and can cause or exacerbate conditions such as obesity, fatty liver, type 2 diabetes, gout and other metabolic or inflammatory diseases. Replacing some fruit with vegetables instead, and choosing less sweet fruit like various berries or melons may be a good idea for most people.
- kleiba 6y agoMost national dietary guidelines encourage eating fruits and vegetables, with an emphasis on the vegetables. The sugar amount in fruit has a direct impact on the overall calories you consume but since fruit are also high in fibre, the contained sugar is not comparable to, say, a chocolate bar.
- HighlandSpring 6y agoMost national dietary guidelines are backed by weak epidemiology and are rarely corroborated by RCTs. See: the food pyramid
- nerdponx 6y agoAnd are instead heavily guided by ag industry lobbyists.
- nordsieck 6y ago> The sugar amount in fruit has a direct impact on the overall calories you consume but since fruit are also high in fibre, the contained sugar is not comparable to, say, a chocolate bar. I think a more precise way to say this is: Due to the water and fiber in fruit, they tend to be more satiating than eating something like a chocolate bar on a calorie normalized basis.
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- pjc50 6y agoHigh-fructose corn syrup is in a lot of American food.
- zests 6y agoThe worst offender is fruit juice. It is practically soda with some vitamin C. Suppose I'm from a country that does not have fruits. How do you convince me to start eating them from a health perspective? Fibre is in vegetables and I'm not too keen on increasing sugar intake for no reason.
- hinkley 6y agoFruit juice removes all of the fructose from the fiber your body has to scrounge through to absorb the sugar. The overall quantity of sugar may be roughly equivalent, but the glass of juice is going to hit your blood stream almost as fast as a can of coke. Probably as fast since a typical bottle of fruit juice is running about 20 calories more than a soda. Also PSA: Watch out for apple juice in your 100% fruit juice. It is at this point a very old industry trick to use apple juice that's concentrated, increasing the sugar content drastically. If you got a press and juiced your own apples, it would taste like flavored water to you compared to the 'worst' case in bottled juices.