Sugar and Fruit

Catlinfit

Trying to cut down on sugar but love fruit. When you want to reduce sugar in your diet do you need to worry about sugar in fruit?

LyndaBSS

I think it would depend on whether or not you have a medical condition. Sugars in fruits are naturally occurring unlike table sugar you put on your cereal, which is considered added sugar.

cwolfman13

cathylinthicum wrote: »

Trying to cut down on sugar but love fruit. When you want to reduce sugar in your diet do you need to worry about sugar in fruit?

That depends. The recommendations for sugar that come from the WHO and other health organization are for added sugars. That said, sugar is sugar to your body...fruit just comes with more vitamins and minerals than, say, a Jolly Rancher...but the sugar is the same. Diabetics can eat fruit, but they have to limit it because sugar is sugar. In an otherwise healthy person, I see no reason to worry about fruit unless you're eating so much of it that it's crowding out other nutritional needs.

MikePTY

Unless you have specifically been advised by a doctor to reduce sugar in regards to a medical condition, reducing sugar is just a personal preference. So you can include fruit in that or not include fruit in that. It won't make a difference. Your body treats sugar the same way regardless of the source.

But if you do reduce your fruit consumption, you need to replace the nutrients from somewhere. Otherwise you will be doing more harm than good to your health.

NovusDies

The sugar thing makes no sense to me but then I don't track it so I guess it is okay. You would think it would mean sugar you added to things not just sugar in natural forms.

Apparently I am an expert at a low sugar diet because I just looked at my 90 day report on sugar and I have only gone over whatever the limit is one time. If you want to be under the limit you would have to eat like I do which I would not advise because I feel I don't eat enough fruit.

My number 1 sugar source in the last 90 days is... Salad (tomatoes). Isn't that ridiculous?

Bananas are #2 and onions are #3

zylkm4

My sugar intake has been ridiculously high on my tracker, but I am eating very little processed food. I eat on average 3 servings of fresh fruit per day and two or three servings of fresh vegetables. I also eat beans everyday, and a few grains, all of which put my sugar intake very high. I am not a meat eater except very occasional fish. I think it's odd that the natural sugar in unprocessed food is counted. That food also gives me enough potassium, calcium, vitamin C, carbs, etc for my day. I'm not going to reduce it just to reduce my sugar number. My triglycerides are very low, fasting glucose (I have done several screenings) is always low to mid healthy normal range, I rarely get cavities, am not having any health issues because of my "sugar" intake. I do find it frustrating though that the tracking makes it seem like I consume way too much sugar. Sighs.