Sugars from fruit good or bad
dandayatra
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my daily sugar intake mostly comes from fruit is that good or bad
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Sugars are sugars, but fruit is more nutrient dense as you will be getting vitamins, minirals and dietary fibre. If you eat sugars, fruit is the better way!0
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Nothing wrong with a little sweetness in your life. Double-bonus if it comes wrapped in a fiber sandwich.0
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Food is neither good nor bad.0
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Fruit burns faster than other processed sugars because it is natural (easier to break down).0
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Good in moderation0
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dandayatra wrote: »my daily sugar intake mostly comes from fruit is that good or bad
Don't worry about sugar, worry about energy balance and macronutrients... in that order.0 -
If you are eating in a calorie deficit, it is unlikely the levels of sugar you are consuming are even remotely close to unhealthy, so it really does not matter.
Log it enjoy it.0 -
My brother told my diabetic dad that fruit sugars are 'time release'. That sounds like a load of crap to me. My doctor said sugar is sugar and diabetics have to watch ALL sugar intake.0
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Yup. Fruit that hasn't been separated from it's fiber is better for you than any refined sugar, including 100% fruit juices.0 -
HeidiHirtle wrote: »
Yup. Fruit that hasn't been separated from it's fiber is better for you than any refined sugar, including 100% fruit juices.
Sugar in and of itself is not good or bad for you, it's just sugar.
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_FATNSASSY wrote: »Fruit burns faster than other processed sugars because it is natural (easier to break down).
Ummm, nope.
Fruit is not one kind of sugar. Fruit has fructose and glucose. Glucose is processed the fastest, in all forms. Diabetics carry glucose tabs around for a reason. Artificial or not, the body processes it the same.
Faster is not always better. Diabetics typically don't want a fast absorption of sugar unless they are experiencing insulin shock. Slow and steady absorption is better. Which is where the fiber comes in. The fiber slows down the absorption of sugar from fruit.
@fbmandy55, I think your brother is right. Sugars from fruit because of the way they are packaged, absorb slower. Which is good. I know when I was more sensitive to sugar, I ate fruit just fine. Some carbs like refined rice, however, hit my system like a mack truck. Way too fast. Might as well have eaten a teaspoon of sugar straight.
I made this table, "all about sweeteners", if you want detail.
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_FATNSASSY wrote: »Fruit burns faster than other processed sugars because it is natural (easier to break down).
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_FATNSASSY wrote: »Fruit burns faster than other processed sugars because it is natural (easier to break down).
Ummm, nope.
Fruit is not one kind of sugar. Fruit has fructose and glucose. Glucose is processed the fastest, in all forms. Diabetics carry glucose tabs around for a reason. Artificial or not, the body processes it the same.
Faster is not always better. Diabetics typically don't want a fast absorption of sugar unless they are experiencing insulin shock. Slow and steady absorption is better. Which is where the fiber comes in. The fiber slows down the absorption of sugar from fruit.
@fbmandy55, I think your brother is right. Sugars from fruit because of the way they are packaged, absorb slower. Which is good. I know when I was more sensitive to sugar, I ate fruit just fine. Some carbs like refined rice, however, hit my system like a mack truck. Way too fast. Might as well have eaten a teaspoon of sugar straight.
I made this table, "all about sweeteners", if you want detail.
Totally right - sugar absorption and thus insulin response is affected by what else is being consumed along with it. Whether or not this will make a difference in a person's weight loss strategy depends both on their metabolic response and their over-all calorie intake. All of that being said, fruit has a load of micro nutrients that are good for health. They also taste good. No reason to curtail fruit just because of "sugar" - and plenty of reason to include fruit as a part of a healthy food intake - offered here with the acknowledgment that folks with diabetes or insulin resistance need to factor in fruit sugars as they eat to maintain healthy over-all blood sugar levels.0 -
_FATNSASSY wrote: »Fruit burns faster than other processed sugars because it is natural (easier to break down).
WTF?!0 -
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Sugars from fruit good or bad
very rarely are matters of nutrition this black and white.0 -
I stand by my anecdotal experience with fruit, and raise you by one scholarly study:
"Healthy volunteers ingested sugar-equivalent meals of oranges and orange juice and of grapes and grape juice. Satiety, assessed by two subjective scoring systems, was greater after whole fruit than after juice and the return of appetite was delayed. With oranges, as previously reported with apples, there was a significantly smaller insulin response to fruit than to juice and less postabsorptive fall in plasma glucose. With grapes, the insulin response to the whole fruit was, paradoxically, more than that to the juice, while postabsorptive glucose values were similar. The glucose in grapes appeared to be more insulinogenic than that in oranges and apples. Conversely, grape juice evoked less insulin than expected, possibly because its high osmolality delayed gastric emptying. However, diluting it did not increase its insulinogenicity. The plasma insulin and glucose responses to fruit appear to depend on the fiber as well as the glucose content of the fruit."
http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/34/2/211.short
So I am right about apples and oranges but wrong about grapes.0 -
Fruit is full of nutrients and has a lot of fiber to slow the absorption of the sugar. So enjoy your fruit.dandayatra wrote: »my daily sugar intake mostly comes from fruit is that good or bad
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_FATNSASSY wrote: »Fruit burns faster than other processed sugars because it is natural (easier to break down).
No, its because it contains mostly monosaccharides, not because its natural.0 -
_FATNSASSY wrote: »Fruit burns faster than other processed sugars because it is natural (easier to break down).
Nope :huh:
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I stand by my anecdotal experience with fruit, and raise you by one scholarly study:
I'll raise your quoted abstract by some data from the same study showing there is no difference between the rate of absorption of glucose from oranges or orange juice although differential insulin release causes a dip later than one hour after eating / drinking in the case of juice :-
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