Sugar in fruits

mamichal
mamichal Posts: 4
in Food and Nutrition
I continue to go over my sugar intake everyday. The only time I'm getting sugar in (95% of the time..) is from fruits! And we benefit from most fruit! So is it ok to go over?? I am usually at about 40/30grams. I don't want to cut out fruits! Thoughts???

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  • EvanKeel
    EvanKeel Posts: 1,903 Member
    1. Do you have some medical reason for wanting to track your sugar intake specifically? If not, then don't worry about it.
    2. You don't need fruit. It's tasty, and has all sorts of beneficial micronutrients and fiber etc, but "need" is a strong word.
  • Project_Jodie
    Project_Jodie Posts: 171
    Perhaps limit your fruit intake to 1 or 2 servings and replace with protein or veggies :) Fruit is good for you but does have hight :natural sugar which can impede weight loss.
  • drmerc
    drmerc Posts: 2,603 Member
    essential fruits
  • mamichal
    mamichal Posts: 4
    EvanKeel, very good point, i shouldn't have stated it as "need". I just meant they have great benefits! My bad :)
  • ladanivita
    ladanivita Posts: 31 Member
    I'm having the same problem! Most of my sugar is from the bananas and strawberries in my morning green smoothie, but they help ease up the flavor of kale/veg + water so I don't want to give them up! lol I'm so glad you posted this, because I was just thinking about this as well...mainly because I wanted a snack so reached for a little grapefruit, entered it, and was alarmed that something so bitter had 16+ grams of sugar! Sigh.

    I heard that sugars contribute quite a bit to chub in the belly which is why I wanted to keep an eye on my intake.
  • sillyli234
    sillyli234 Posts: 124 Member
    If it is naturally occurring sugar and you are exercising at least 3 times a week then i say it is not a big deal. Have you ever had your glucose tested? I too struggled with deciding how much sugar I should have on a daily basis. There is a good article on livestrong.org about sugar... if you google "daily amounts of sugar" it should come up.
  • mamichal
    mamichal Posts: 4
    ladanivita, fruit is such a love/hate relationship!!! haha
  • shivles
    shivles Posts: 468 Member
    Fruit is good, simple :)
  • skinnymck
    skinnymck Posts: 8 Member
    This is quite interesting - I never thought about how much sugar I'd be taking in eating a "healthier" diet of fruit. Also keep getting told off from my dentist because of acid erosion from fruit juices etc. This is a hard gig trying to be healthy while cutting down on sugars etc!
  • Annieapple12
    Annieapple12 Posts: 122 Member
    Try eating berries and kiwi fruits. They have less sugar in than other fruits.
  • Firefox7275
    Firefox7275 Posts: 2,040 Member
    Loads of threads on this. Most official guidelines worldwide are to eat far more veggies than fruits, if you adhere to this you likely won't eat an excessive amount of natural sugars. If you are still bothered eat more low sugar fruits like berries, red and black currants, grapefruit. Limit or avoid juices, they have the sugar concentrated and the valuable fibre removed.

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