Please provide the truth about fruit sugars!

Kbasore
Kbasore Posts: 25 Member
in Food and Nutrition
I am trying to eat very healthy over the next few weeks. One of the things I make for myself is a fruit smoothie with greek yogurt, strawberries, bananas, and OJ. My food log here tells me that this meal alone goes over my sugar limits for the day. But these sugars are natural and found in fruits. Are these really unhealthy?

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  • _granola
    _granola Posts: 326
    The sugar limit provided here is the USDA recommended limit of added sugars consumed each day. Stop tracking it. It's useless, and fruit is good for you, so eat it.
  • kaervaak
    kaervaak Posts: 274 Member
    Sugar is sugar and comes from many sources. Essentially, all carbohydrates are processed into sugar by our bodies and we do it quite efficiently. Don't worry too much about sugar consumption as long as you're hitting your macros and calorie goals.
  • yarwell
    yarwell Posts: 10,477 Member
    But these sugars are natural and found in fruits.
    All sugars are natural and found in fruits (and other plants).

    There is a logical discontinuity in setting a sugars limit - in the UK it's 90g per day of added sugars for women (2000 calorie diet) and 120g for men (2500 calories). So one third more sugar for a quarter more calories - inconsistent !

    Turn it off, or set it to a level you like with Custom goals.
  • edleim
    edleim Posts: 81 Member
    I actually just changed my setting to track sodium instead of sugar. I eat pretty clean so most of my sugar comes either from stuff I know has sugar (desserts, honey) or fresh fruit. If you are the same way then I would turn the sugar tracker off. I eat fruit every day because I love it and it is good for me but I do lose more/easier if I don't. There is also sugar in wine but it does not realy show up on here so another reason not to track sugar since i drink wine so this makes my sugar consumption totals inaccurate.

    If in fact you eat foods with added sugar (pretty much any processed food) then you should track to get a sense of how much sugar the things you eat have in them and see if they are affecting your weight loss. You will be surprised that most "low fat foods" have sugar in them. Even bread.

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