1cup of fruit= all m sugar for the day??
JasmineDiver22
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Why the heck is 1 cup of fruit all my sugars for the day? can this be? I'm allowed 56 grams of sugar. Why so low? What can I eat that's less sugar if I can't even freakin eat a dang cup of fruit
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Why are you tracking sugar?0
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Do you have a medical reason to track sugar?0
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Every time I log something, it'll say how much fat protein sugar calcium blah blah blah, that I'm "allowed"
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Unless you have some medical reason such as diabetes or prediabetes to restrict carbs, you can safely ignore this. Change the settings to something more suited to your way of eating. While it's recommended to keep an eye on too much added sugar, since it can add up so quickly, there is no real reason to limit the sugars naturally found in fruit and dairy. As long as you are under your calories and getting enough fat and protein you will be fine.
However, 56 g of sugar is one heck of a big cup of fruit. What kind of fruit was it?3 -
Go into the settings and turn off that notification. Unless you have a medical condition requiring it, you don't need to focus on those factors at this time. For now, focus on calories.4
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@Ready2Rock206
Nope no reason. I was just curious about why it notifies me for irrelevant things like that, if they shouldn't matter apparently. Should I just not even worry1 -
It was pineapple and strawberries0
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Try weighing your fruit instead.
Edit: weigh it instead of using volume measurements such as cups. Cups and such are typically for liquid measurements (unless you weigh it out as well. The beauty of the metric system is that one gram = one milliliter).
Solids should typically be weighed.3 -
JasmineDiver22 wrote: »@Ready2Rock206
Nope no reason. I was just curious about why it notifies me for irrelevant things like that, if they shouldn't matter apparently. Should I just not even worry
I changed mine to track fiber instead. Any fruit and you're probably over the sugar "goal" which if you don't have a medical reason to be concerned about it, doesn't really matter. I wouldn't worry.0 -
It's not irrelevant. If you ate a non healthy food, you'd want to know if it blew your sugar for the day. You'll learn good and bad sugar and not put too much weight on the better kind.22
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JasmineDiver22 wrote: »It was pineapple and strawberries
I agree that weighing is better.
I think you may have a dud nutritional entry. I normally weigh by grams, but the information I'm seeing on entries in cups say more like 20g sugar for that amount of mixed pineapple and strawberrries. Strawberries in particular are surprisingly low in net carbs.1 -
A lot of things in the nutrition summary you should just ignore. Read this, it's the best rundown I've found on the internet on what matters and what doesn't:
http://physiqonomics.com/fat-loss/3 -
MFP sugar goal is for added sugar, though it does not differentiate between added and natural when you enter food in your diary. If you are not diabetic or pre-diabetic there is no need to track sugar on its own, it is just a carb, and I assume you already track those.0
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Not that I would worry about sugar from fruit, but as others indicated:
USDA says that a cup of strawberries (144 g) have 46 calories, 7 g of sugar. A cup of pineapple (165 g) has 82 calories and 16 g of sugar. So 1 cup of the two, mixed, will have nowhere near 58 g of sugar, but more like 11 or 12 g. So something else is contributing the sugar or the entries you are using are off.1 -
can you post a picture of the actual fruit entry you used?0
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I typically try to use entries for raw foods that have the little green check mark. I *think* it means that they've been verified.0
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Unfortunately the check mark is pretty useless. Find the ones that are from the USDA -- you can usually tell because of the format of the entry (compare with the USDA) and the MANY unit options, including 100 g.2
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lemurcat12 wrote: »Unfortunately the check mark is pretty useless. Find the ones that are from the USDA -- you can usually tell because of the format of the entry (compare with the USDA) and the MANY unit options, including 100 g.
Thanks for clearing that up. I've definitely noticed the MANY unit option thing this week. I used a generic entry for raw chicken and got 2,800g of sodium on Monday.... THAT was fishy!2 -
@aeloine Hold on......chicken that did not taste like 'chicken'? The heck you say! I thought that everything tastes like 'chicken'!3
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I eat fruit all day everyday. It hasn't stalled my weightloss. Fruit is sooo good for you. It has so many benefits . In one day I eat watermelon, cantaloupe, grapes,nectarines, pears, and strawberries or blueberries with bananas almost every morning. I could never be without fruit.I don't understand why so many people are afraid of fruit.4
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CWShultz27105 wrote: »@aeloine Hold on......chicken that did not taste like 'chicken'? The heck you say! I thought that everything tastes like 'chicken'!
MY chicken was chicken. MFP chicken was more like salt water fish
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I swapped out Sugar and Sodium for Fiber and Iron.2
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It's not irrelevant. If you ate a non healthy food, you'd want to know if it blew your sugar for the day. You'll learn good and bad sugar and not put too much weight on the better kind.
I'm not sure what your idea of a non healthy food is, but let's say it did put a person over their sugar goal for the day, why would that matter? If they are under total calories for the day and eating a variety of foods, what would it effect?
Also, what are good and bad sugars? Your body doesn't know the difference, they are all processed via the same biochemical pathways.8 -
Yes I agree with the others, I switched mine to counting fiber and sodium because those make a difference in my daily life (constipation, water weight, etc)1
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That seems like a lot of sugar for just strawberries and pineapple as strawberries are actually quite low in sugar content. I'd weigh your fruit individually to get a more accurate log, not so much for sugar content (recommendations of maximum sugar amounts a day excludes sugar found naturally in foods like fruit and dairy) but for accurate calories consumed.0
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WinoGelato wrote: »It's not irrelevant. If you ate a non healthy food, you'd want to know if it blew your sugar for the day. You'll learn good and bad sugar and not put too much weight on the better kind.
I'm not sure what your idea of a non healthy food is, but let's say it did put a person over their sugar goal for the day, why would that matter? If they are under total calories for the day and eating a variety of foods, what would it effect?
Also, what are good and bad sugars? Your body doesn't know the difference, they are all processed via the same biochemical pathways.
If you are going to put 50grams if sugar in your body, you can do it via fruit or a cupcake. Yes, as long as both fit into your calories, so be it. But from a nutritional standpoint, consuming that sugar from fruits versus a cupcake is more beneficial. Make what you consume count, that's what I was getting to.5 -
WinoGelato wrote: »It's not irrelevant. If you ate a non healthy food, you'd want to know if it blew your sugar for the day. You'll learn good and bad sugar and not put too much weight on the better kind.
I'm not sure what your idea of a non healthy food is, but let's say it did put a person over their sugar goal for the day, why would that matter? If they are under total calories for the day and eating a variety of foods, what would it effect?
Also, what are good and bad sugars? Your body doesn't know the difference, they are all processed via the same biochemical pathways.
If you are going to put 50grams if sugar in your body, you can do it via fruit or a cupcake. Yes, as long as both fit into your calories, so be it. But from a nutritional standpoint, consuming that sugar from fruits versus a cupcake is more beneficial. Make what you consume count, that's what I was getting to.
not really - your body metabolizes the sugar the same way regardless of how you ingest it (fruit/cupcake/vegetables etc)7 -
deannalfisher wrote: »WinoGelato wrote: »It's not irrelevant. If you ate a non healthy food, you'd want to know if it blew your sugar for the day. You'll learn good and bad sugar and not put too much weight on the better kind.
I'm not sure what your idea of a non healthy food is, but let's say it did put a person over their sugar goal for the day, why would that matter? If they are under total calories for the day and eating a variety of foods, what would it effect?
Also, what are good and bad sugars? Your body doesn't know the difference, they are all processed via the same biochemical pathways.
If you are going to put 50grams if sugar in your body, you can do it via fruit or a cupcake. Yes, as long as both fit into your calories, so be it. But from a nutritional standpoint, consuming that sugar from fruits versus a cupcake is more beneficial. Make what you consume count, that's what I was getting to.
no really - your body metabolizes the sugar the same way regardless of how you ingest it
So you disagree with what I said above? You believe that nutritional value in fruit is the same as a cupcake, so long as both have the same amount of sugar?1 -
if you are comparing sugar to sugar then yes - all sugar is broken down to its simplest form to be digested - in fact, a cupcake could have protein/fat as part of the calorie make-up which would make it potentially a more rounded option than just straight fruit8
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WinoGelato wrote: »It's not irrelevant. If you ate a non healthy food, you'd want to know if it blew your sugar for the day. You'll learn good and bad sugar and not put too much weight on the better kind.
I'm not sure what your idea of a non healthy food is, but let's say it did put a person over their sugar goal for the day, why would that matter? If they are under total calories for the day and eating a variety of foods, what would it effect?
Also, what are good and bad sugars? Your body doesn't know the difference, they are all processed via the same biochemical pathways.
If you are going to put 50grams if sugar in your body, you can do it via fruit or a cupcake. Yes, as long as both fit into your calories, so be it. But from a nutritional standpoint, consuming that sugar from fruits versus a cupcake is more beneficial. Make what you consume count, that's what I was getting to.
That doesn't actually make sense - the nutrition in fruit and cupcakes is different but the sugar is the same and your body doesn't know what it comes packaged with.
Far better to think in terms of overall diet than individual foods, both fruit and cupcakes can be part of that diet. Neither is intrinsically good or bad and people do actually eat both, choosing one doesn't mean excluding the other.7
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