Why are people so down on fruit these days?

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Bursting with vitamins and enzymes and fibre, yet I’m reading more and more on Mumsnet and elsewhere about the insidious dangers of unbridled fruit consumption. A Mumsnetter once wrote that a poster way as well eat a bag of Haribo as juice up a load of fruit.

AIBU to think that a punnet of strawberries is still a pretty good thing to put in your body?

Fruit a go go chez moi. Strawberries are in season and we're on a large punnet a day. Kids love em, hubby is happy.

I'd eat more fruit but it's expensive

It’s the soft fruit season and it is impossible to go through our local open air market without buying everything in sight. So much nicer than supermarket fruit, which often goes from underripe to withered without passing through ripe. Also much cheaper in the market.

I had strawberries that we grow in hanging baskets and yoghurt for breakfast, some dark red cherries after lunch and picked raspberries to snack off our few but very productive canes as I put out the washing in our small garden. My husband finished off the apricots.

I love, love, love this time of year because I am an unrepentant fruit bat and my favourite food is at its best. I have good teeth, no weight issues and am in good health as are my equally fruit fan DDs.

This demonisation of fruit shall pass.

I've been doing strawberry and rhubarb compote - literally just strawberries, rhubarb, sugar and water, simmered till soft. Super good with yogurt, ice cream. DH has it on toast.

People aren't against fruit, really. The issue is that so many people think that juice - not whole fruit, just juice - is the same healthwise as eating an actual piece of fruit, say an apple or a bunch of grapes. The juice by itself is where you get mostly sugar and water and no fibre, and it's that confusion that is what many of us are down on. "My kids easily get their 5-a-day because they drink a litre of orange juice". Nope.

I was glad when fruit began to be vilified as I have never enjoyed it. I used to hate all the smug mummies who said their children “have unlimited access to the fruit bowl”. Ha, now it is my turn to be smug 😂

Because people are stupid.

Knowing fruit acids and sugars are bad for your teeth isn’t stupid. Bad luck dear.

You can have my naturally-very-low-in-sugar-and-thus-low-on-the-glycemic-index strawberries when you pry them from my cold, dead shopping cart.

It’s the sugar and carbs - when I was on a weight loss plan, there was very little fruit included (50g twice a week). It’s also not very filling or satisfying - ive read thread after thread on here about kids and food; from ‘stealing’ to those saying their kids are hungry while being perplexed as ‘we always have plenty of fruit which they can have any time’. Something like Greek yoghurt and peanut butter is much more filling and satisfying.

I'm on slimming world and most fruit is speed food which means aids weight loss.
I've lost 5lb in 3 weeks eating fruit, rice, potatoes, pasta in addition to 'healthier' salads, protein and veg etc.
Fruit is good.

There's nothing wrong with it.

But shoving 13 servings of fruit daily into your 2 year old while neglecting to feed much protein or calcium, and completely ignoring vegetables, is not a good thing. (Using an example from a recent thread)...

The key is balance and moderation.

You don't have to compensate for lack of biscuits, squash and sweeties in a child's diet, if that is the way you have decided to feed your child. You have to also nourish with all the rest of what a child needs.

I eat a massive bowl of fruit every morning, at least 5/6 portions, generally kids and dp too. Then at least 8 portions of veg throughout the rest of the day. I find it gives me loads of energy and completely stopped the bloated heavy feeling I used to have throughout the day.

Fruit is awesome.

Are you mad people? If you are on a diet because you ate yourself fat, it's not because you were eating fruit and veggies, it's because you were eating shitloads of highly caloric food.
In my family, access to fruit and veggies is unlimited. This time of the year we love going to our garden and feast on strawberries, sorrel, rocket and watercress.
None of us has dental issues as a result, neither do we have to waste our money on diet programmes. And no, there's no better way to get vitamins.

We know we didn’t eat ourselves fat by eating strawberries, sorrel, rocket and watercress. Not all of which are fruit incidentally.. Nobody even said that. But certain fruits do exacerbate tooth decay, but because you and your family haven’t got it, it surely means it does not exist. Ok then.

most people are too stupid to understand the difference between the natural sugars in fruit and the refined crap in Haribo

Would you care to explain the difference? (Hint: there is none.)
The sugar that’s in a piece of fruit is made up of fructose and glucose, just like processed sugar.

But shoving 13 servings of fruit daily into your 2 year old while neglecting to feed much protein or calcium, and completely ignoring vegetables, is not a good thing. (Using an example from a recent thread)

^^ This. Most people on here are weirdly obsessed with high fruit consumption and seem to think a normal basic diet includes piles of fruit daily, whereas in reality the 5/7/10 a day should be mostly vegetables with a couple of portions of fruit at most.

Some years ago one of those diet programmes featured a woman who 'only ate healthy food and couldn't understand why she was overweight' but when they showed her breakfast, it is bloody obvious as she was eating virtually a washing up bowl of fruit for breakfast - whole punnets of blueberries, strawberries, mango, kiwi, grapes etc.

There's also the cost aspect and the disinegenous argument that you need to spend a lot of money to eat healthily, because a normal basic diet 'has' to include out of season imported berries by the bucketful which makes people on lower budgets think that they might as well not bother as they can't afford this.

It’s the sugar sadly ! It’s the new devil
But agree better a few 🍒 than the Haribo !
I live on bananas . What I would eat if they don’t exist I have no idea

I wonder how sugar in fruit stacks up against the recommendations for sugar consumption if you track using MFP or similar? If you put in that you have eaten 3 bananas or whatever, does it tell you that you are eating too much sugar?

This thread is making me crave mango.
My dentist pointedly said to keep eating some fruit if I like it, coz it's so nutritious.

As PP mentioned, I think it's all about moderation. Gotta be better than Harribo. Try and get organic strawberries if you can, those little sponges soak up all the sh*t.

stopfucking.. what about avocado? Much tastier and just as easy. Bloody amazing for your skin too!

Oow love mango!
The pineapples are only 49p in Tesco atm if anyone's interested, yum.

We live fruit here, but a lot is too sugary, so I only let the children have less sugary types like quinces, gooseberries and so forth.

Seriously though, they both LOVE strawberries, including the tiny wild ones growing as weeds all over the front garden. All the little seeds make nappy changes challenging!!

If you put in that you have eaten 3 bananas or whatever, does it tell you that you are eating too much sugar?

Yes.
3 average bananas contain 57g of sugar.