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Fruit sugar

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  • FreyasRebirth
    FreyasRebirth Posts: 514 Member
    A comparison would be eating coco leaves. It may help with a toothache, but you aren't going to get chemically dependent on chewing/eating leaves. It is only when you process it to concentrate the cocaine alkaloid (removing over 99% of the other constituents) that you get the drug that can kill you. "Added sugar" is typically the same deal. Even maple syrup is concentrated by evaporating 95%+ of the original volume before straining.
  • LiveLoveFitFab
    LiveLoveFitFab Posts: 302 Member
    I eat a lot of fruit and veggies that have sugar. I even eat yogurt and honey every night. I think unless you have goals such as a figure competition. you're one of those keto people or you have a medical reason, there is no reason to cut out fruit. Maybe don't eat it all day, but a few pieces of fruit a day can't be bad for a healthy person. This shouldn't even be a question.

    Funny how we go from eating whatever we want that is totally unhealthy to looking at an apple and questioning it's intentions.
  • psuLemon
    psuLemon Posts: 38,438 MFP Moderator
    FreyasRebirth wrote: »
    A comparison would be eating coco leaves. It may help with a toothache, but you aren't going to get chemically dependent on chewing/eating leaves. It is only when you process it to concentrate the cocaine alkaloid (removing over 99% of the other constituents) that you get the drug that can kill you. "Added sugar" is typically the same deal. Even maple syrup is concentrated by evaporating 95%+ of the original volume before straining.

    Sugar is not even remotely the same thing as cocaine.
  • Pooshka2
    Pooshka2 Posts: 208 Member
    CafeRacer808 wrote: »
    Tiny_Dancer_in_Pink wrote: »
    I overate whole foods especially fruit. I hadn't realized you can't eat the whole box of persimmons and wonder why I was struggling with weight loss. Have you ever tried a fuyu persimmon. I betcha you can't gust eat one.

    Mine was definitely due to mangos and bananas, but I do love me some persimmons. My grandparents have a persimmon tree in their backyard. So good...

    Never knew what a persimmon was until I met my husband. He LOVED those seasonal persimmons and persimmon cookies!
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