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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dark Horse" data-source="post: 1948440" data-attributes="member: 52527">The World Health Organisation (WHO) recommend a daily minimum of 400g of fruit and vegetables <a href="https://www.who.int/dietphysicalactivity/fruit/en/" target="_blank">https://www.who.int/dietphysicalactivity/fruit/en/</a> which can be thought of as five 80g portions per day. The slogan '5 a day' may have originated in California but the advice stems from a large evidence base, not from lobbying. For people who have problems with blood sugar levels, it might be better to limit fruit to 1 portion a day and take the rest as vegetables, with the focus on lower carbohydrate vegetables.Public health bodies have tended to use the '5 a day' message as they think that most people would find this achievable. The evidence actually suggests benefits from double that amount <a href="https://academic.oup.com/ije/article/46/3/1029/3039477" target="_blank">https://academic.oup.com/ije/article/46/3/1029/3039477</a> but it's thought that people might find that too daunting and give up trying to increase their fruit and vegetable intake. 5 a day is therefore a compromise.If you really love grapefruit, you could consider just reducing the number of times a week you eat it and/or do a swap whereby you cut back on some other carbohydrate in your diet which you don't love as much.</blockquote>

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