EAT MORE FRUIT!!!
An author should try to consider the impact of their words. So, with all awareness about yesterday’s posting about how fructose can stimulate an appetite, I would like to say this loud and clear….EAT MORE FRUIT.
Some folks will reason that they need to watch their weight, fructose stimulates an appetite, fructose comes from fruit, so they need to avoid eating fruit if they want to watch their weight.
The one problem with that argument is that fruit provides so much more to the body besides fructose. Namely, most fruits provide a host of vitamins, minerals, and fiber, all of which are needed if you are to effectively lose weight. And in the case of fiber, the bulk of fiber can create a satiated feeling so that you think you are full.
Okay, so how much fructose is in fruit?
Total Fructose Per 100g of Common Fruits
| Fruit | Fructose | Sucrose | Total Fructose | Total Sugars | % Fructose |
| Apple | 7.6 | 3.3 | 9.3 | 13.3 | 70% |
| Grape | 7.6 | 0.0 | 7.6 | 18.1 | 42% |
| Strawberry | 2.5 | 1.0 | 3.0 | 5.8 | 51.8% |
| Mango | 2.9 | 9.9 | 7.9 | 14.8 | 53.4% |
| Papaya | 2.7 | 1.8 | 3.6 | 5.9 | 61% |
| Sucrose | 0.0 | 97.0 | 48.5 | 97.0 | 50% |
| Honey | 42.4 | 1.5 | 43.2 | 81.9 | 52.7% |
| HFCS-55 | 42.4 | 0.0 | 42.4 | 77.0 | 55.1% |
Table information courtesy of LifeSpotlight
So, is there too much fructose in an apple? The short answer is “no”. If you plan to eat a half a dozen apples at one meal, that would be excessive. Then again, too much fructose is not likely to your only issue if you eat half a dozen apples at once. The point here is that it is difficult to go overboard with fructose if your only way of consuming fructose is through fruit. Fructose come packaged in a wide variety of processed foods and it is relatively easy to over consume fructose when it is hidden in these packaged foods.
Need some more reasons to eat apples? See these:
http://blog.wide-body.com/2008/10/13/dont-peel-that-apple.aspx
http://blog.wide-body.com/2008/10/17/eat-apples-lose-weight.aspx
http://blog.wide-body.com/2008/11/12/another-post-about-apple.aspx
So, have we learned? Eat your fruit, its good for you. Learn to read the labels on packaged foods. It may surprise you.
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