Eating Fruit

4Deepak wrote: »

Not diabetic. Just that most fruit has high calories.

If you leave out Banana and grapes, not to mention any dried fruit, the sugar content and hence calories isn't that high. They are mainly water after all.

Apple :
Amount Per 1 medium (3" dia) (182 g)
Calories 95
Sugar 19 g

Neither good nor bad unless it affects your total calories.

I think eating fruit is good for me since I like them (the ones I eat, anyway), they tend to have micronutrients and fiber, and I find them pretty filling. I tend to eat fewer overall calories (within reason--you shouldn't have an absurdly low calorie goal) when I include fruit in my diet. Some people apparently eat insane amounts, and going over your calories is going to cause you to gain no matter how you get there, and of course you shouldn't eat fruit in lieu of protein or fat or veggies or other things you need.

Marillian wrote: »

Yes, fruit has natural sugar, which your body will process and not store it like refined/processed sugar.

No. It's the same molecule.

https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10197460/sugar-faq-june-2015

Marillian wrote: »

Yes, fruit has natural sugar, which your body will process and not store it like refined/processed sugar.

Your body processes whatever you give it. (Even storing excess as fat is a form of processing it, and beneficial in the vast majority of human environments, as the current situation where people have lots of excess is unusual if you take a broader view of it.)

It's simply not true that your body will not store certain things as fat. You are storing and burning fat constantly, no matter what you eat, and whether you have a net gain of fat depends on whether you eat excess calories or not, not whether you eat melon or some ice cream.

Also, the difference in GI (really what matters would be GL) between two kinds of fruit is unlikely to matter one whit for most people, especially if you eat fruit with other foods. For people who are insulin resistant it might be something to monitor and see if you get hungrier or have a response to certain fruits vs. others.

Worth noting, however, that the GL for banana is 16 and that for watermelon is only 4.

http://www.health.harvard.edu/healthy-eating/glycemic_index_and_glycemic_load_for_100_foods

4Deepak wrote: »

Not diabetic. Just that most fruit has high calories.

Watermelon, pineapple and cherries are lower than some other fruits.

cwolfman13 wrote: »

everyone knows that an apple a day is the root cause of the obesity epidemic...

not really, half the population don't eat that much fruit ;-)

4Deepak wrote: »

Interesting to note that the sugars, both fruit and beet/cane, are the same! Did not know.

Sugar is the same but with fruit we get fiber and other micro. Most added beet/cane sugar is stripped of these and hit the blood stream all at once; where sugar in it's natural plant form is metabolized more gradually and accompanied by more nutrition.