Crystal sugar vs Fruit sugar

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  • DisneyDude85
    DisneyDude85 Posts: 428 Member
    thevyrismark2 wrote: »
    diannethegeek wrote: »
    I just want to be sure, since it's a faq, but are you subtracting the weight of the core and parts you don't eat?

    I didn't do that on purpose. If I type in more than I actually eat I will think I ate more and cut down on snacks at the end of the day. So far I've stayed well under my calory limit everyday that way.

    2 things: 1) you shouldn't be eating well under your calorie limit, you should be eating AT your calorie limit :) Or, like some people do, eat 100-150 under during the week so you have a few hundred more on the weekends :)

    2) I, like rabbitjb, have swapped my sugar tracker for fiber. Most of the sugar I consume is from fruit, dairy, and veg. Fiber is more important to me :)

    And I second seeing a picture of the 4 lb pear :)
  • DeguelloTex
    DeguelloTex Posts: 6,652 Member
    rabbitjb wrote: »
    I need to ask

    I always thought that the larger the fruit the less likely it would be to be absolutely delicious ...almost like the fruit delight is spread over too much mass

    Are 2kg pears as yummy as a 100g one?
    Your husband told you that, didn't he?
  • TR0berts
    TR0berts Posts: 7,739 Member
    DeguelloTex wrote: »
    rabbitjb wrote: »
    I need to ask

    I always thought that the larger the fruit the less likely it would be to be absolutely delicious ...almost like the fruit delight is spread over too much mass

    Are 2kg pears as yummy as a 100g one?
    Your husband told you that, didn't he?




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  • thevyrismark2
    thevyrismark2 Posts: 36 Member
    VeryKatie wrote: »
    Are you sure you didn't mean 0.2 kg? 200 grams? Or did you mean 2 lb? Which is still 900 g. I saw in your diary you're logging more like 160 g - 200 g pears... which is a pretty standard pear size.

    Not all of my pears are that big of course, but 2kg was the largest one I've had this year. I think I ate that one about a month ago. I wish I had taken a picture of it on the scale now haha
  • Sued0nim
    Sued0nim Posts: 17,456 Member
    DeguelloTex wrote: »
    rabbitjb wrote: »
    I need to ask

    I always thought that the larger the fruit the less likely it would be to be absolutely delicious ...almost like the fruit delight is spread over too much mass

    Are 2kg pears as yummy as a 100g one?
    Your husband told you that, didn't he?

    You've weighed it on your kitchen scale, haven't you?
  • lemurcat12
    lemurcat12 Posts: 30,886 Member
    edited November 2015
    rabbitjb wrote: »
    I need to ask

    I always thought that the larger the fruit the less likely it would be to be absolutely delicious ...almost like the fruit delight is spread over too much mass

    This is usually my experience.

    I'm just trying to imagine what a 4.4 lb pear would look like!
  • yarwell
    yarwell Posts: 10,477 Member
    some 2 lb fruit in http://forums.gardenweb.com/discussions/1508231/what-is-the-largest-pear-you-know-of
  • spoonyspork
    spoonyspork Posts: 238 Member
    At last, context for this picture!

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  • Speckle38
    Speckle38 Posts: 53 Member
    If I was growing 2kg pears on a regular basis, I'd be aiming to break the Guinness World Record for heaviest pear.
    The heaviest pear was 2.948 kg (6 lb 8 oz) and was grown by JA Aichi Toyota Nashi Bukai (Japan) and presented at the JA Aichi Toyota main office in Toyota, Aichi, Japan on 11 November 2011. The pear was an atago pear. This variety is the biggest pear in Japan and it is original from the Okayama prefecture.
  • VeryKatie
    VeryKatie Posts: 5,961 Member
    Speckle38 wrote: »
    If I was growing 2kg pears on a regular basis, I'd be aiming to break the Guinness World Record for heaviest pear.
    The heaviest pear was 2.948 kg (6 lb 8 oz) and was grown by JA Aichi Toyota Nashi Bukai (Japan) and presented at the JA Aichi Toyota main office in Toyota, Aichi, Japan on 11 November 2011. The pear was an atago pear. This variety is the biggest pear in Japan and it is original from the Okayama prefecture.

    I agree with you! I'd add a little fertilizer at the base of the tree. If it's doing 2kg without aid, then it could do better with!
  • GaleHawkins
    GaleHawkins Posts: 8,159 Member
    allaboutthefood wrote: »
    Your body registers sugars all the same way. The thing with sugar in your fruits is that there is a lot of other good things in that fruit that you are eating, but if you juice that fruit and only drink the liquid that comes out of the fruit, you are drinking sugar and do not get all the other good stuff fruit has to offer same with veggies. I don't worry to much if my sugar goes over due to fruit, but I do try not to go over by much if any at all. I would be more concerned on added sugar and cutting those out.

    @thevyrismark2 @allaboutthefood does make a good point. Raw fruit and vegetables come with digestive enzymes that help us digest the entire fruit rather and do bad things in the gut like can happen with foods that have had the enzymes removed. Best of success.
  • blankiefinder
    blankiefinder Posts: 3,599 Member
    I personally did not track sugar while losing, and I eat / ate a ton of fruit, especially in the summer. It did not affect my weight loss. Track your calories and eat in a deficit. I also ate sweets if I had room in my calories for the day. Sometimes it was just a single square of high quality dark chocolate, but that's enough usually :)
  • BruceHedtke
    BruceHedtke Posts: 358 Member
    rabbitjb wrote: »
    I need to ask

    I always thought that the larger the fruit the less likely it would be to be absolutely delicious ...almost like the fruit delight is spread over too much mass

    I don't know about other fruits, but every bite of a jumbo sized honeycrisp apple is worth the cost.

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