fruit sugar question

I'm curious about this too.
If I eat 1/2 of a peach for breakfast, would the natural sugars in the fruit actually be doing more harm than good?

Fruit wont make you fat, smoothies sure could.

Nature works pretty well. To get sugar, you have to work for it. Fruit has fiber in it. You can't eat it that fast or that much (or afford it for most of us lol!!!) to get fat on.

Smoothies are sorta processing out mother natures "brakes" on eating too much sugar.

At least that's my take.

Example---a normal human couldnt eat enough oranges to get fat on right? Apples? Peaches? Not likely.

But the average person sure as hell gets fat on orange juice, apple juice, etc if you just drank it all the time which is easy to do.

I eat a lot of apples during the day ( about 3-5) and they have sooo much sugar but I don't think you can get fat from it!!

MFP sets the sugar low already. I try not to look at mine, considering one apple can put me over. With that being said, I try to eat fruits at the beginning of the day (so my body can use them for fuel for the day) or right before a workout.

I eat a ton of fruit. It seems like everyone thinks the sugar in fruit is the equivalent to a snickers bar... This is an extremely controversial topic on myfitnesspal, but we won't get into that.

The sugar in fruit won't make you fat. Are the rising obesity rates in North America a result of people eating too much fruit? Probably not.

Fruit wont make you fat, smoothies sure could.

Nature works pretty well. To get sugar, you have to work for it. Fruit has fiber in it. You can't eat it that fast or that much (or afford it for most of us lol!!!) to get fat on.

Smoothies are sorta processing out mother natures "brakes" on eating too much sugar.

At least that's my take.

Common sense is key here. Fruit is healthy, along with the sugars that come with it. It would be unhealthy if you were going over your sugar by eating foods that are junk food, candies for example. I go over my sugar with fruits a-lot of the time, I wouldn't worry too much about it unless your doctor or whatever says that you need to watch your sugar intake due to health requirements. I focus on fat, and calories more than anything.

Good Luck!

I prefer the complex carbohydrates from cookes over the simple sugars in fruit

Unless your doctor told you to watch your sugar intake, there's no reason to watch your sugars. While you can get fat on fruit, it's pretty difficult. Fruit sugars "count," but sugar itself isn't an indicator of a food's nutrition. The reason we get fat from eating sugary foods isn't because of the sugar itself, but because sugar is usually added in large quantities to foods and increases calories. Even though they're full of sugars, fruit is usually fairly low in calorie and high in nutrients and worth what calories you get.

In short, don't sweat the fruit sugars. My daily half a grapefruit puts me over daily, still down 11lbs in 2 months.

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/983906-fruit-sugar?hl=fruit+sugar#posts-15929091
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/981307-another-fruit-sugar-question?hl=fruit+sugar#posts-14990941
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/952868-fruit-sugars?hl=fruit+sugar#posts-14524921

Careful, that's frowned upon round these parts. :grumble:

You need a hug, don't you?

Fruit wont make you fat, smoothies sure could.

Nature works pretty well. To get sugar, you have to work for it. Fruit has fiber in it. You can't eat it that fast or that much (or afford it for most of us lol!!!) to get fat on.

Smoothies are sorta processing out mother natures "brakes" on eating too much sugar.

At least that's my take.

Example---a normal human couldnt eat enough oranges to get fat on right? Apples? Peaches? Not likely.

But the average person sure as hell gets fat on orange juice, apple juice, etc if you just drank it all the time which is easy to do.

Fruit wont make you fat, smoothies sure could.

Nature works pretty well. To get sugar, you have to work for it. Fruit has fiber in it. You can't eat it that fast or that much (or afford it for most of us lol!!!) to get fat on.

Smoothies are sorta processing out mother natures "brakes" on eating too much sugar.

At least that's my take.




But the average person sure as hell gets fat on orange juice, apple juice, etc if you just drank it all the time which is easy to do.

The reason fruit juice makes us fat is due to the process of "concentrating" the fruit juice. That process strips away the fiber and healthy nutrients, essentially leaving behind a flavored sugar water. That's not technically what it is, but essentially that is the value of what is left after concentration occurs. The best form of making any kind of juice is to squeeze it yourself. If you want a smoothy, then make one with fresh fruits, it's way healthier and tastes better anyway :-)

Well who hey now look at this..an intelligent response with a thoughtful explanation instead of lame *kitten* gifs.

Its not fruit juice, but turning fruit into a smoothie is processing the food, and easier to eat, thus easier to overeat. The fruit juice was an exaggerated example to make a point.