s/o Do you think fruit is good for you?
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There is a thread in teens/tweens about whether people allow "unlimited fruit" for their kids and it reminded me of several conversations I've had in the last few year that have made me realize that some (perhaps an increasing?) number of people believe fruit is bad for you, or only mildly better than sweet foods like candy or baked goods. I've encountered a number of fellow parents who limit how much fruit their kids have and discourage fruit for young kids in favor of veggies. And I've also encountered several adults who have told me that they try to stay away from fruit because of the sugar in it.
During the pandemic, my family started making fruit smoothies almost daily and we really enjoy it. I do sometimes throw in greens if I think they'll go well with the fruit (or be easily masked) because an extra dose of spinach or kale can't hurt. But mostly we do fruit (bananas, oranges, mangos, pineapple, berries, etc.) with some oat milk and call it a day. I find it such a great way to start my day and if I mix it with some protein (a poached egg or some toast with peanut butter) it feels like a super healthy meal. Lots of vitamins and fiber and the fructose is a shot of early morning energy that I think beats caffein in terms of waking me up. But I know a number of people who would disagree. So wondering where DCUM stands on this. Is fruit good for you? |
Anonymous
| Fruit is good for you! It has a lot of good vitamins and fibers. Like with any food though, moderation is necessary. If you binge fruit all day, your diet isn't going to be very balanced. |
Anonymous
| You don't need DCUM to tell you that fruit is good for you. |
Anonymous
| Yes, fruit is good for you. Whole fruit is good for you. I'm not sure smoothies are as good, but I suppose it's better than eating processed food. |
Anonymous
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Yes, of course food is good for you!
I just don’t get some of the extreme ideas about food that are out there lately. |
Anonymous
Smoothies are fine--blending it retains the whole fruit. Juice is what's bad because it loses the fiber. A lot of those smoothie chains like Smoothie King use juice and that's why they aren't healthy. Homemade is great. |
Anonymous
| Fruit as part of a balanced diet is perfectly fine. |
Anonymous
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OF COURSE FRUIT IS GOOD FOR YOU!!!!
Look at your teeth; you evolved to eat fruit! At the dawn of humankind we lived in equatorial zones and ate almost exclusively fruits that are native to those tropical zones. We are, after all, apes - and apes eat mostly fruit. |
Anonymous
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People with eating disorders will find a problem with everything.
Fruit has too much sugar Blending fruit removes chewing which burns calories Etc If 1 kid are a whole bag of clementines (which is what the other pilots asserted) I’d assume my kids were to lazy to make more filling food. |
Anonymous
This is true, a smoothie retains the fiber - BUT, it does break the fiber down into much smaller pieces and that does effect how the fiber and the fructose are processed by the gut and used by the body. A smoothie is a nice treat but it is preferable for gut and liver health to take most of your fruit in whole form. |
Anonymous
How is a smoothie where you’ve blended a lot of whole fruits any different than eating the fruits separately? It’s the same fruit, just with some milk or yogurt added. |
Anonymous
What more filling food are you thinking of? Fiber is the most filling of all foods, clementines are full of fiber and NO, fruit does not have too much sugar! Your ideas about nutrition are painfully wrong. I don't know where you got them, but you really owe it to yourself and any kids you are feeding to get better educated in nutritional science. You might start with the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine podcast The Exam Room with Chuck Carroll. |
Anonymous
Because it breaks the fiber down and that changes the rate of absorption through the gut of both the fiber and the fructose. Either God or the universe designed fruit and human apes in a coevolution - minus blenders. Consider that there might be wisdom in the way we ate for millions of years before blenders and processed food existed. |
Anonymous
| Whole fruit is good for you, eating several pieces of liquid blended fruit at one time is more than what is good for glucose homeostasis of many people. Some people could have that smoothie every day of their life with no issues. For some people that would expedite metabolic dysfunction and insulin resistance, and eventually lead to pancreas burnout and diabetes. |
Anonymous
No, it really doesn’t affect the fiber in a way that makes it less useful for the body. |