The concentrated sugar and lower fibre content with additional processing mean to me that Modern fruit is different. It is juiced, concentrated, dried and added to a variety of foods and marketed as ‘natural sugar’. My issue is not with eating whole fruit as much as it is with the quantity and frequency that we currently take in. Even those smoothies from juice bars are about the same but at least still have the fibre within them. Most fruit juices have about the same amount of sugar in them as Coca Cola or Lemonade. There is nothing ‘natural’ about bananas in Tasmania or stone fruit in Northern Queensland at any time of the year. This is all about marketing, transportability, shelf life and profit.
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Most modern fruit has been ‘designed’ for a higher sugar content, lower fibre content, with a thinner skin and greater water content to make it ‘juicy’. The trouble is we now have some form of sugar 3 times a day, 365 days a year and wonder why we are making fat every day along with its metabolic consequences. The natural source of sugar is fruit and we are meant at a primitive level to search for that sweetness generally at the end of summer, gorge upon the fruit and elegantly metabolise it to fat for winter storage. There are about 3 teaspoons of sugar in each banana and orange, a couple in apples, peaches and nectarines, about 1 per strawberry or grape. How many of you can eat just one grape if you have a bunch in front of you? Just try doing one strawberry. And that equals a load that can be reduced particularly if you are trying to lose weight. It is better than a lot of refined sugar in food but fruit still has a fair load of fructose. To me, however, it should be up to ONE piece of LOCAL and SEASONAL fruit per day. I have nothing against fruit and still believe that there is plenty of goodness in fruit. I have friends who can remember getting a single orange as a child in their Christmas stocking as a special treat. It is laden with a variety of fruit that can not be local. The ‘modern’ fruit barrow is not what it was. Many groups including dieticians, weight reduction schemes and some advisory bodies keep pushing the fruit barrow.
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