Sugar

atmmassage

So I've had a cup of blueberries and plan to have a apple and it says I need to stay under 47 grams of sugar. Should I be worried when this is natural sugar?

ValeriePlz

I get annoyed by that, too. I try to steer toward natural foods that have sugar AND fiber, and MFP does not distinguish that from a pure sugar candy bar or soda. I wouldn't worry about it.

RunHardBeStrong

I don't count natural sugars as being against me. I wouldn't fret over it.

zcb94

I wouldn't, but then again I'm diabetic. Fruit contains fiber, vitamins and other yummy things, which help. If you have a decent doctor or Registered Dietician in your life, you can ask them for personalized guidance.

cee134

Depends. Do you need to be worried about any sugar?

Whether it’s in a piece of fruit, your soda or a pastry, sugar is made up of the same two components: fructose and glucose. The molecular structure and composition of sugar molecules is the same no matter where they come from.

The ratios of fructose and glucose are pretty much the same in both fruit and table sugar. Most fruits are 40 to 55 percent fructose (there’s some variation: 65 percent in apples and pears; 20 percent in cranberries), and table sugar (aka sucrose) is 50/50. Neither type of sugar is better or worse for you, but your body processes them differently. Fructose breaks down in your liver and doesn’t provoke an insulin response. Glucose starts to break down in the stomach and requires the release of insulin into the bloodstream to be metabolized completely.

Don’t get the idea that because the sugar composition is the same in fruit and cake, they’re interchangeable. (Seriously, they’re not.) For one thing, fruit offers good stuff like vitamins, antioxidants and water, while candy and desserts are nutritionally void. Fruit also tends to have less sugar by volume. Half a cup of strawberries: 3.5 grams of sugar. Half a cup of strawberry ice cream: 15 grams.

Plus, whole fruit has a lot of fiber, which actually slows down your body’s digestion of glucose, so you don’t get the crazy insulin spike (and subsequent crash) that candy causes. That also means your body has more time to use up glucose as fuel before storing it — as fat.

On average, Americans don’t eat enough fruit, so don’t cut it out of your diet in an attempt to limit your sugar intake! Sugar itself isn’t toxic. But getting too much of it from cookies and cake is.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/29/fruit-sugar-versus-white-sugar_n_3497795.html

ValeriePlz

@cee134 - your post is everything I've wanted to say in tons of sugar-related posts and have not had the eloquence.

SomebodyWakeUpHIcks

@atmmassage wrote: »

So I've had a cup of blueberries and plan to have a apple and it says I need to stay under 47 grams of sugar. Should I be worried when this is natural sugar?

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