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Should I
Really Be Avoiding Fruit To Lose Weight??
Is 5 portions of fruit
a day really healthy?
Recently a study has just been released stating that instead of
eating 5 portions of fruit and veg a day, you should actually be eating between
7 and 10!! Now that’s a lot of fruit and veg to be consuming within a day,
especially when we take a more detailed look into what fruits actually contain
and whether or not we want to be consuming high amounts.
Fructose
When you take a look at what a fruit is made up from, obviously
depending on what fruit it is, the first thing you notice is they have a very
high water content, they also have a high sugar content! Now we’ve all heard
the “but its natural fruit” argument, but the form of sugar found in fruit is
actually remarkable similar to the sugar you put in your tea! (typically a 1:1
ratio of fructose and glucose) Fructose and glucose are both simple
monosaccharaides, that bond together to form the disaccharide Sucrose, this is
how you will find most sugar in both fruits and table sugar.
Now why would your body treat the same form of sugar any differently
just because it has come from fruit? That’s right, it wouldn’t! An Apricot for
example is made up of approximately 63.5% of sucrose, with the rest coming from
either free glucose or free fructose. And with 11.1g of Sugar, that’s the same
as 3 teaspoons in your morning tea! Quite scary isn’t it?
So What Do I Do?
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not trying to get you to eliminate fruit
from your diet as it has many phytonutrients, fibre, minerals, vitamins and
antioxidants that can help keep your body as healthy as possible. But you need
to start monitoring how much you are consuming on a day to day basis as this
may be drastically hindering your weight loss attempts. 3 bananas equal over
60g of Sugar, that’s more than a bottle of Coke! I would recommend no more than
2 portions of fruit today (however have as many portions of vegetables as you’d
like).
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