Since starting keto... Cherries, avocados, and heirloom tomatoes!

Lemons and limes (mainly juices).

I like cranberries added to salad.

Will probably add more... Need to grocery shop more!

The only fruits I don't like are pears and apples raw... Will eat, but don't like the texture.

avocado, berries and tomatoes

tomatoes, cranberries, strawberries, blackberries, raspberries, and blueberries

TheDevastator wrote: »

Thanks for the lists. I think lemon water is great to help the liver out but so is getting the right proteins and fats. I don't see myself eating that many fruits except avocados and some berries when in season.

Those are the fruits I stuck to while eating keto. Good choices.

My fruits are ones most don't know are fruits like peppers - mostly jalapeños, serranos and cayenne (hañero are not ripe yet) - and okra from my garden. Also, cucumber and some zucchini. I will occasionally have some blackberries, but that is a rare occasion where I will get a couple of 6 oz containers and eat them over the course of a week or so.

@macchiatto

Agree with TheDevastator, once processed foods are gone, a lot of health benefits should come.

I still eat clean and consume whole foods on keto. Processed foods are hard on the liver.

Part of my influence is Terry Wahls' research on MS. I want to get back to following her advice of 6 cups of fruits and vegetables a day (2 each of different categories) and some of her other guidelines, too. Her full protocol is a bit much for me at this point but I want to move more in that direction.

Two fruits I just added on a daily bases is one whole organic apple including the stem and one banana. I did start eating one tablespoon of raw honey at the same time. All three are for the health of my gut microbiome.

One day I saw some raw honey on the counter and wound up eating 8 tablespoons just to get it out of my sight. A positive change in my stools lead me to google honey's value to one's microbiome. That lead to learning about the value of a whole apple and a banana as well. After the first week I think adding these three carb sources may become a long term change.

Effect of honey in improving the gut microbial balance
https://academic.oup.com/fqs/article/1/2/107/3860141
"Conclusions and Future Prospects
Our understanding on the role of intestinal microflora in the maintaining host health and nutrition has vastly improved in the recent times, driven largely by the advancements in novel analytical techniques and global research initiatives on the gut microbiome. Dietary application of probiotic strains and non-digestible oligosaccharides aim to achieve a positive microbial balance towards a more favourable bacterial community. Furthermore, effective synbiotic combinations can potentially enhance the discrete health benefits of prebiotic carbohydrate and probiotic microorganisms, and also present development opportunities for innovative functional foods. The unique oligosaccharide components and antibacterial mechanisms of honey are of a great research interest for the physiological effects. A more rigorous evaluation of the potential prebiotic effect of honey on probiotic lactobacilli and bifidobacteria, and the action mechanisms involved, however, may be necessary to incorporate the functional ingredient with scientifically substantiated health claims. In vitro models of the human gut can be employed to test digestibility and fermentation selectivity of honey oligosaccharides, followed by in vivo animal studies and randomized control trials in human subjects. Although the selectivity of honey as a substrate for the probiotic bacteria is an important aspect of the prebiotic effect, the holistic metabolic benefits of gut microbiota modulation must also be adequately considered."

Study: One Apple Carries Roughly 100 Million Bacteria — Which Is A Good Thing

https://studyfinds.org/study-one-apple-carries-roughly-100-million-bacteria-which-is-good-thing/

“Freshly harvested, organically managed apples harbor a significantly more diverse, more even and distinct bacterial community, compared to conventional ones,” Berg explains. “This variety and balance would be expected to limit overgrowth of any one species, and previous studies have reported a negative correlation between human pathogen abundance and microbiome diversity of fresh produce.”

Furthermore, organic apples only were shown to contain Lactobacilli, a fairly well known probiotic. Conventional apples on the other hand, contained bacteria known to harbor pathogens. The research team even say that organic apples contain much more of a specific bacteria, methylobacterium, known to enhance flavor quality in fruits.

These findings mesh well with another recent study that found fungal communities among organic apples were much more diverse compared to regular apples grown using pesticides."

A Mix Of These Foods Could Restore Healthy Microbes In Malnourished Kids

https://npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2019/07/11/740820882/a-mix-of-these-foods-could-restore-healthy-microbes-in-malnourished-kids

This was the article that sent me down the banana rabbit hole.

Again it was the day after I ate 8 tablespoons of raw honey that turned me onto adding a one tablespoon daily of raw honey article. I just added the organic apple and a banana while I was at it. My n=1 testing of digestive enzymes had changed my stool somewhat and the day after the honey usage things were back to normal and was why I googled honey and the gut microbiome. Is there a connection with honey I can not say because I do not know. It is just my observation that was easy to see.

Berries, tomatoes, avocados, cucumbers (could not live without these!), plum (one occasionally), and muscadine (have to splurge when they are in season here because they are full of so much healthy stuff!).

Also since we are talking about more splurge stuff - wanted french fries when my husband and kids eating their burgers and homemade fried/chips. Found a garlic Parmesan carrot fries recipe on Tasty. Really good! And easy! Normally don’t eat a ton of carrots. But you can have a couple and get away with it. They tasted like sweet potato fries.

Yum! I looked at the recipe for carrot fries from Tasty. They do look tasty. Recipe printed.

I'm comfortable in where I am right now. I've been able to tract my food, and this is helping I think. I am eating more fruits as part of the main diet macros diet plan. This is mainly strawberries (3 cups in a shake, or 250 grams raw). I also like avocado. But no bananas as yet..I need to watch my carbs, which is so easy to rise.

I've added back in plums, peaches, nectarines. I've been trying to consume one to two fruits a day. Still coming in low net carbs. And not feeling bloated or blah.

I like fruits, but I changed the way I eat them. For example, I cut an apple to 4 pieces and eat one at a time for my snack, with something else like cottage cheese, etc. So, I still eat the fruits I like (Mellons, apples, grapes, bananas (those are tough), strawberries, tomatoes, avocados and more), but in less quantities and it does not seem to be too much of a problem.

Tomato, avocado, and very, very rarely I'll eat some berries. I also do the juice from lemons and limes.

To be fair, I'm not a huge fruit eater even when not doing a low carb diet. I could go months without eating fruit. Summer is a bit different because there are so many more options, and I'm a melon lover