Fruit Consumption = to much sugar?

Sugar is only one part of carbs. If you do not have insulin issues you don't really need to worry too much about exceeding one part of carbohydrates.

If you do want to go lower, change your fruit. Bananas are one of the highest in sugar (and a serving is 1/2 a banana so a whole one you are having 2 servings of the highest in sugar content fruit). Stay at the top of the list below.

Fruits Lowest in Sugar
Small Amounts of Lemon or Lime
Rhubarb
Raspberries
Blackberries
Cranberries

Fruits Low to Medium in Sugar
Strawberries
Casaba Melon
Papaya
Watermelon
Peaches
Nectarines
Blueberries
Cantaloupes
Honeydew melons
Apples
Guavas
Apricots
Grapefruit

Fruits Fairly High in Sugar
Plums
Oranges
Kiwifruit
Pears
Pineapple

Fruits Very High in Sugar
Tangerines
Cherries
Grapes
Pomegranates
Mangos
Figs
Bananas
Dried Fruit, such as dates, raisins, dried apricots, and prunes

I love bananas :sad: does this mean I shouldn't be eating them? I tend to have one a day :frown:

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Thank you, this helps alot I will try and eat more of the lower sugar content fruit, and if it still going over by a small amount im going to assume its better to go over my sugars eating fruits then junk?

Definitely, but not because of the type of sugar (that makes no difference). Junk has excessive fat, and generally very little nutritional value. Fruit is nutritious, and has negligible fat.

Fruit is just sugar.

The only thing fruit does for you is give you carbohydrates - sugar.

OK, it has a couple of vitamins, but so what? Any good green vegetables, not to mention any good piece of beautiful meat, utterly eclipses any trivial "vitamin" benefit in fruits.

If you must eat fruit, eat strawberries.

Interestingly strawberries are the one thing you can eat with the highest ratio of apparent sweetness, to actual carbohydrates.

(After strawberries, other berries.)

NEVER, EVER eat things like bananas. A typical whole banana has like FIFTY grams of carbs, for God's sake.

We were never "meant" to eat bananas, they are an utterly unnatural food imported from the far tropics.

Incredibly, an enormous HUNDRED GRAM serving of strawberries, has only a tiny say 5 or 7 grams of carbs.

THAT IS NOT A TYPO, read it again and check it up on calorieking or whatever.

Get facts on your side!

So a strawberry snack, say a huge 50 gram bowl of strawberries, gives you a massive sweet kick to the human olfactory / gustation / orthonasal / retronasal / chemesthesis systems .. and you've only eaten literally 3 or 4 carbs. Whereas eating a banana, which does not "seem" as sweet as a bowl of strawbs, has an insane FIFTY or much more grams of carbs.

If you're trying to lose fat, eating a banana is almost crazy.

Reach for the strawberries.

After gourmet strawberries, you have other gourmet berries like blackberries and blueberries - yum.

After that, what about some watermelon? Look at the figures. You can munch a huge 100 gram slice of watermelon and you get very few carbs or calories.

I like what researcher Gary Taubes says about fruit juice: "It is sugar, with some water in it, and a little multivitamin mixed in. The only thing worse for you that fruit juice is more fruit juice."

Get science and facts on your side! Eliminate fat!

LOOK at the carb grams contained in fruit before you eat it.

KNOWLEDGE is power -- don't act on vague rumours.

If you must eat fruit, eat strawberries, the "miracle" fruit.

Fruit is natural and still good for you. Don't listen to the guy who's saying to eliminate fats. I tend to think that eating a piece of fresh fruit is a better alternative to junk food any day. I don't track my sugars anymore - I have a frozen fruit w/ water smoothie every morning, i eat an apple almost every day, I have a banana occasionally (only because I prefer it in a certain smoothie I make that is not all fruit). I happen to LOVE raspberries which are super high in fiber, so bonus!

I've read quite a bit about sugar, and from what I've read I have come to understand that you should not worry too much about the sugar you are consuming from fruit or dairy. What you should be watching instead, is the added sugar consumed from mostly processed foods and drinks. Granted, if you are eating tons of fruit it can cause problems as well, but a few servings a day are nothing to be concerned about..