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Fruit. Enemy or Freind?

I love fruit! I used to eat a lot of fruit salad but I couldn't be bothered counting carbs so I don't do that anymore. I have some fruit with my breakfast, usually apple but recently I've been enjoying some peaches. And I have some cherries as part of my afternoon snack. I don't really spike when I eat fruit, or with most carbs really, so I think I will keep eating it. Also I need it for my bowels, I don't know why but I keep getting constipated.
 
Guzzler said:
I was never a big fruit lover but on occasion I would have a banana sandwich made with white bread and marg. There are more carbs in one banana sandwich than my daily amount these days and I never had just the one!
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Sometimes I can really get to hate people!!!! Now I really want to eat this!!!!
 
Tomatoes are my fruit! Every single day, raw or grilled but rarely from a tin.

Otherwise it's a few strawberries or raspberries once or twice a week with yogurt or cream, and even they aren't true friends.

My fatty liver has gone. (I think). I don't want it back again.
 
Guzzler said:
Well, there is nothing in fruit that can't be had from veggies and there are lots of vitamins and minerals only found in animal products, some of which I was certainly unaware of.
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Except taste.
I think seeing food as “the enemy” is a pretty unhealthy attitude.
I eat vegetables much more than I eat fruit and berries much more than any other fruit. There are many fruits and some vegetables that I dont eat because the sugar spikes simply arent worth it
 
I love fruit salad. I always made one if I had friends round for dinner: pineapple, mango, grapes, apples, pears sometimes, blueberries, strawberries, passion fruit; the fruit 'marinated' in its own juice and rum with a touch of Angostura Bitters. Absolute heaven. I used to have it for breakfast the next day and often made one as a pud. I dread to think what the carb count was but I would never regard fruit as an 'enemy', just something I can't have any more, except berries. I miss the 'cleanness' of fruit after a meal - it was my favourite pud if eating out - but raspberries and strawberries are now fine for that.
 
Interesting presentation, and again goes back to things I learned. So for foraging, avoid fruits & berries except as a morale boost, and focus on meat, fat & greens. Speaker made a lot of sense though. We like fruit because it's sweet and tasty. The food industry encourages that by developing fruits for sweetness, and also some veg. A while ago I saw a programme where they were developing a sweeter sprout to encourage consumption. I know from my own testing that eating apples & oranges for my '5 a day' spiked my glucose levels though.
 
Guzzler said:
I was never a big fruit lover but on occasion I would have a banana sandwich made with white bread and marg. There are more carbs in one banana sandwich than my daily amount these days and I never had just the one!
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Loved banana sandwiches with peanut butter! Oh the memories.

Wondering how pb and avo would go over ? Na.... each with a spoon separately I imagine would be better
 
Vegetables can also contain fructose, sometimes in fairy high quatities (e.g. a head of red cabbage contains more than an apple) so maybe we should be avoiding these as well?

Actually I've found so far that it's not easy to compare fructose values in fruit and vegetables as none of the info I've found has given fructose per 100g weight for veggies...

Robbity
Whio is starting to wonder whether it's getting to the point where anything will be considered safe to eat or drink :wideyed::wideyed::banghead:
 
Robbity said:
Vegetables can also contain fructose, sometimes in fairy high quatities (e.g. a head of red cabbage contains more than an apple) so maybe we should be avoiding these as well?

Actually I've found so far that it's not easy to compare fructose values in fruit and vegetables as none of the info I've found has given fructose per 100g weight for veggies...

Robbity
Whio is starting to wonder whether it's getting to the point where anything will be considered safe to eat or drink :wideyed::wideyed::banghead:
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Bacon and eggs. No fructose there;)
 
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