To think two oranges after dinner is too much sugar

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They are pretty large navel oranges, two of them (whole not juiced) is probably half your daily sugar allowance so probably not a good idea to eat two after a evening dinner?

Loving some of the responses on here.

But to be serious for a moment, I have had it up to here with the orthorexics on here who see being a size 8 as their life's achievement and spend their time making themselves feel superior by pronouncing against the presumedly lacking self-control and self-sacrifice of the rest of us while busily passing their eating issues on to their poor children, particularly their poor daughters.

You're feeding (ironic, that) a misogynistic culture that just loves it when women pour all their energy into beating themselves and one another up over their figures because it diverts it from concern with and action against the crap time we still get. Please desist.

Looking at OPs threads, she doesn't have much to worry about.
My kids have sticky toffee pudding and ice cream or custard for pudding some nights. Ice cream most nights. Someone come lock me up!

These OP are very sad and boring. Have a

Motherofthenorth - I can't decide if you are serious or joining in the lightheartedness of the thread, I hope for your children it's the latter.

If you are being serious please add to your I'm sure rigorous scientific research that despite me falling well short of your perfect parenting my DC are also all healthy and tall, fancy that eh

Oh dear! 🍊🍊

This thread is bonkers.

@FrozenMargarita17

Too true. Apples are sinners.

I was going to post citing the other thread as evidence of how utterly batshit crazy some MNetters are in relation to fruit but then I saw you’d cited it as support for your belief, OP...

I have never read anything as bizarre as that thread. It was like it had been written by the Daily Mail’s finest conspiracy theorists.

2 banana's?
Please can someone link to the other thread?

I could do with a good laff

Most people agreed that two bananas on the other thread was too much sugar for an adult to consume

No "most people" didn't. One or two said that and where roundly laughed at by "most people"

As far as I'm aware, the daily sugar allowance applies to added sugars in food and drink. Not the sugars which occur naturally in all food.

I have genuinely never heard of anyone ending up unhealthy or fat just from eating large amounts of fruit. Has anyone else??

I think the government need to make clear that they are talking about REFINED sugar. The white stuff. Not bananas. As long as they brush their teeth, kids will be fine eating oranges, apples etc.

The government know jack shit about this anyway. In the past few years they have been peddling sugar free drinks as a solution for kids, as well as reduced fat margarine. And the result is that people are up in arms over a couple of oranges. Jesus wept.

2 oranges is fine - it's like having half a glass of juice.
2 ripe bananas do contain a lot of sugar, yes. I personally wouldn't eat that.

YES! To @Stylishmummy. This is what I've been saying for years! We had cake and biscuits and fizzy pop growing up-but not everyday, not huge chunks, not half a packet, not half pint glasses.
Oh and op, you are either goady or deluded.

My kids have sticky toffee pudding and ice cream or custard for pudding some nights. Ice cream most nights. Someone come lock me up!

My dc have a proper pudding every night too!

Where is the banana-gate thread please?

OP, you are absolutely right. It starts with one orange, then it’s two, and it’s the start of a slippery slope. Suddenly you’ll start finding your purse missing and apple cores and melon skins discarded around your house. Next thing the kid will be mugging old ladies to feed his Papaya habit. Then one day you’ll get a knock on your door telling you he was found in the park after an overdose of Kumquat.

Nip it in the bud.

My ds has always had a love of fruit and would happily eat two portions after dinner, she's 12 now and whilst her friends are buying and consuming bars of chocolate on their way home from school she's eating a full punnet of strawberries etc, I know which I'd prefer! So let her, there's really much worse things.

*dd not ds, he is a chocoholic. (Can't get it right every time!) lol

@Mightymucks
. Brilliant!

Be glad the oranges were eaten whole not juiced. Far healthier to chew & digest all that fibre.

I hope they were organic oranges from Waitrose OP
Only thin I'd be worried about if eating too much fruit would be squits!

OP do you mean the banana smoothie thread? www.mumsnet.com/Talk/_chat/3221947-Is-this-a-healthy-breakfast

Strawberries 🍓 🍓🍓🍓🍓🍓🍓 can cause bowel cancer Not once did DH's oncology team mention that. Is it a bit like swallowing an apple 🍎 pip means you'll grown a tree 🌲 in your stomach?

FFS the worlds gone mad!!!!! Are you sure you are not talking about the chocolate variety??

I’m glad you mentioned oranges OP... I have gestational diabetes and am just so confused over what I can and can’t eat. You have now enlightened me, thank you.

Oh, actually come to think of it... I thought you meant Terry’s Choc Oranges! Bugger. I’m so disappointed you meant actual fruit oranges. I’m very sad about not being able to eat Terry’s but now you tell me that I can’t eat the real fruity stuff either...?!

Oh poo... my diet will really go to pot now...