With everyone being an armchair-nutritionist we are constantly facing conflicting information, especially when it comes to sugar. Recently I read a comment on social media that stated fruit was just as bad as eating a doughnut when you considered the sugar. Well, this made me take a step back 😮. Yes, we know fruit is sweet, juicy, and quite frankly tastes like it’s heaven sent, so maybe there’s some truth lurking in this random “Fruit is bad” statement. Isn’t that usually the case when something is amazing? So, being my own armchair-nutritionist, I turned to the internet to see if treats like cupcakes and candy have the same effect on us as a piece of fruit.
Short
answer: No –Fruit sugar does not have the same effect on our system as refined
sugar 🥰.
Turns
out that both fruit sugar and processed sugar are made up of the exact
same components: Glucose and fructose.
What makes all the difference is the
context in which sugar is being consumed.
With a piece of fruit you’re
also getting fiber, vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, and water all which slows
your body’s absorption process allowing you more time to use up the glucose and
fructose as fuel instead of being stored as fat.
On the flip side, a cupcake
has little nutritional value so your system is flooded with glucose and
fructose faster than your body can burn it so it’s stored as fat which ends up
as extra weight on you.
To
the keyboard-jockey posting that fruit is bad:
“You’re incorrect, internet
person”😝.
Fruit is amazing for
you and it would take way more fruit than you could eat at one time to even compare
to the sugar you get in that candy bar so keep making the good choice with
natural fruit sugars🍉🍇🥝🍎🍊🍍.
Here’s
some great articles on the subject if you want to read more: Aaptive, Cancer
Treatment Centers of America, and Eaton.com
Written by Wenona Mertens
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