Sugar from fruits

Same here ladies! It is a daily necessity... I can't give it up...

Trust me I love apples, pears, and many other fruits and eat many of them every day!

I had the same question not too long ago. I guess what sounded good to me is to make sure to eat in balance of more veggie than fruit. Dont worry too much of going over your sugar if its healthy sugar specially if you exercise too.

of course if you are going to have lots of sugar you want to have them from fruit. However, the high sugar content in sugars do cause a spike in your blood sugars. That is what our Dietitian told my wife and I. My wife is preggo & on a glucose restricted diet because she is glucose intolerant & they told her no fruit in the morning because how it can cause a jump in your blood sugar.

Sugars from fruits contain glycogen where as sugars from candy bars contain glucose.

This all means that the sugars from glycogen are an okay sugar to have because they slowly break down, preventing the 'sugar high' and are much better at sustaining fullness after eating than compared to sugar from a candy bar or another sugary processed snack.

I wouldn't worry about the sugars from fruits, although the sugars from candy and such aren't too good for you! I hope this helps!

Unfortunately this is untrue. Glycogen is simply long chain glucose strands held in a water solution in the liver and at some muscles sites. The body creates glycogen in the liver (mainly) from glucose molecules and holds them as storage and to a small degree distributes them to muscles for fast acting energy.

In truth, fruits contain both sucrose and fructose (different fruits have different percentages, berries are generally considered the best for this), the difference between added sugar and natural sugar is in the fibrous material that makes up the fruit, and the way fructose is broken down in the body. It is true that you probably won't spike the blood sugar when eating fruit. The blood sugar levels will go up, but not dramatically. Fiber forces the body to work harder to get at the sugar, making it take longer and slowing down the process of break down of the natural sugars in the body. All sugars we eat need to be converted to glucose before our body can use them as energy; so the slower we do that, the more even the distribution of energy (over time) from our food. Add to that the fact that fructose requires a more complex process to break down than sucrose and requires more time, and you have the main reasons why fruit sugar is better than added sugar (sucrose or HFCS). Any time you deliver a sugar without solid food, it's probably not as good for you, that includes fruit juices, HFCS, sucrose, or meal replacements. Fruit juice DOES have some benefits, namely you at least receive vitamins and some minerals, so there's a somewhat mitigating aspect of them, but that only really helps when taken in small quantities. Gorge on grape juice and you're still going to receive massive amounts of sugar in a short period, not a good thing. Regardless of the amount of anti-oxidants or vitamin C in it.

High Fiber/Low-Glycemic Carbohydrates
High in fiber, these are always your best fruit carbohydrate choices anytime of the day.

Blackberries, blueberries, boysenberries, elderberries, gooseberries, loganberries, raspberries, strawberries, lemons, limes, granny smith apples.

fruits are healthy. the end.