Fruits in daily diet, HELP

They are healthy and lower in calories. Apples generally have a low GI so you're fine and don't stress it. Enjoy your fruits and stay within calories but I'd recommend sticking with Apples, pears, etc rather than bananas because bananas are great but tend to have more fructose sugar and more calories.

Do you have a medical reason that you need to keep an eye on sugar? If not, I really wouldn't worry about naturally occurring sugars. You don't even have to leave sugar as a metric on your diary if there is something else you'd like to track instead.

I largely ignore the sugar total and watch calories for the reasons you mention. I'm no dietician, but I do understand that natural fruit sugars are fine, it s the refined and added sugars that you need to watch. A quick bit of mental maths tells me if I am on the right track. Watch out for dried fruits though, as this has the effect of concentrating the sugar. I also avoid fruit juices and smoothies because it is all too easy to eat the calorific equivalent of 4-5 oranges, or a lb of mixed fruits without the fibre pulp or other goodness that you just wouldn't eat as fresh fruit.

same as what others are saying: I ignore the MFP sugar suggested intake. I do avoid processed sugar but eat as much fruit as I want. I even removed the sugar column from the tracker.

I have changed the sugar setting to iron, much more important for me.

Hello
well, my diet allows me to eat 50g of sugars a day, and the thing is, that according to MFP, a medium sized apple, pear, clementine, or whatever other fruits ive logged, are almost 15-20g sugars each.
i thought that sugars from fruits are healthy and shouldnt count, yet i hit my daily limit after 2 apples and another small fruit?
please help
and thank in advance MFP nation

MFP's sugar settings are ridiculously low!!! Ignore....especially since the sugar is coming from a healthy source!!

I do not agree with some of the comments about dont worry about the how much fruit you eat . I think we should, yes fruit is a good thing but to much of a good thing can be to much. Both my nutritionist and my Natural path say to only eat 2 servings Approximately 80 calories a serving and to try and have
1 Apples
3 med Apricots
1 cup of berries like Blackberries or blueberries
1.5 cup of strawberries or raspberries
1/2 medium cantaloupe
15 cherries
2 fresh fig
1 whole grapefruit
15 grapes
2 cups watermelon
1 medium pear
1 large orange
2 sm plums
2 sm peaches

They both recommend this list
and Berries being the top fruit
hope this helps

Thank you all for your replies
No, i dont have any medical issues
So would be it be wise if i just tracked the calories in fruit? And just added them using the "Quick add calories only" option?
Or should i ignore both calories and sugars?

Thanks

Definitely do NOT ignore the calories! While fruit is healthy it still has calories and those add up. I would enter the fruit as you have been doing so you can track everything, but remove the sugar column from your view. Go to Food, then settings, then under "nutrients tracked" change sugar to something you'd rather track. I changed mine to iron.

Don't focus on sugar alone just look at hitting your macro for overall carb intake and if you're trying for health not just weight make sure those carbs aren't all coming from refined sugars

I do not agree with some of the comments about dont worry about the how much fruit you eat . I think we should, yes fruit is a good thing but to much of a good thing can be to much. Both my nutritionist and my Natural path say to only eat 2 servings Approximately 80 calories a serving and to try and have
1 Apples
3 med Apricots
1 cup of berries like Blackberries or blueberries
1.5 cup of strawberries or raspberries
1/2 medium cantaloupe
15 cherries
2 fresh fig
1 whole grapefruit
15 grapes
2 cups watermelon
1 medium pear
1 large orange
2 sm plums
2 sm peaches

They both recommend this list
and Berries being the top fruit
hope this helps

This is unclear to me. Both of your advisors are telling you to have no more than two servings (measured at 80 cal each serving) of fruit per day, and to that you should try to have that entire list daily????? There is no way that is just two servings and no way that adds up to 160 calories.

That's the list to choose from, not that you eat the whole thing. That list shows you how much of each fruit equals one serving.