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?

Boden advert children? Stringy hair and big teeth? Wow, way to go! I have no fillings. Zero, nada, zilch as do my non-boden children.

@halfwitpicker you are a genius! I have a glut of both strawberries and rhubarb and my raspberries are just about to come into season.

We eat A LOT of fruit in this house but I'm of the thinking that unrefined food is better than processed.

Boden advert children??!

Fruit sugars are less cariogenic than refined sugars. It is constant snacking that causes tooth decay, It is the number of intakes of sugar a day that is important when it comes to causing decay. If you eat the same total amount of food in a day, fruit or whatever else, you will get less decay if you don't constantly graze. What is important is to have more in meals then nothing in between for long periods so your teeth can recover. Ideally five or fewer intakes a day. This includes sugary drinks, so only drink water between meals ideally.

It all stems from the current fear of carbs

If you do exercise/walk places there is no need to be fearful of carbs, but so many people sit down most of the day (office work....what can you do?!)

As in very healthy looking!

I agree with shakira 100%. I don't care for sweets so almost never eat fruit. I do eat loads of bread.

Some of you have a very strange relationship with food.

I think it's because fruit used to be akin to vedge but they are different. It's fructose and glucose and simple carbs. Fructose isn't great with weight loss at all if eaten in high doses

There are complex carbohydrates in fruit.

do they look very “healthy looking” caribbean? Or do they just look horsey and middle class?

Who funds the research or advertising even, which tells us fruit is bad for us? When I was a child, one of the sugar companies put an advert in the newspaper [or something, I only vaguely remember], stating that apples contain a massive amount of sugar and omitting to mention that they are mostly water. Who is funding this campaign I wonder, could it be sweetener producers? Pumping aspartame and other foul non foods into the population. Fruit is good and the sugar contained within is good.

Whole fruit is good for you. When you juice it you take away a lot of the goodness and leave all of the sugar so it's not as good for you.
Can't get my knickers in a twist about fruit consumption although I do try to limit my 2yo to 3 pieces a day max or he'll get a runny tummy.

Not horsey
Def middle class!

Carribean have you a massive garden or an unlimited budget?

Fruit is a healthy food but it is to varying degrees sugary so if you are trying to lose weight or have a blood sugar issue you might want to moderate. That's not the same as fruit is terrible go eat a Mars bar.

I have read quite a bit on fruit and it seems that eating it whole rather then juicing it is better because you get the fibre. Yeah it has sugar in it but it’s natural so I don’t care I still eat it! If I want something sweet I feel better for having a bowl strawberries then a bag of sweets! Iv also just read in a few different places that jacket potatoes are now ‘bad for you’..... last I heard they were really good for you! You can’t win!!!

Def middle class!

Obviously if you're eating all that out-of-season fruit all year.

Gawd, I am really fed up with these food crazes!

People, just eat.
Eat real food.
Eat when you are hungry, stop when you are full.
Eat fruit.
Eat vegetables.
Eat protein and fat and everything.

Eat food, real food, that looks like food and ideally did not come out of a cardboard box or an aluminium tray.

IMO if people ate enough proper food, what fruit they could stomach would not do them harm. It's all about proportionality.

And yes, the vast majority of people in the developed West consume far too many carbohydrates (sugar included) than they need. But that's a whole other thread.

I eat loads of fruit and veg. It’s full of nutrients and natural sugars, I have a sweet tooth and would rather it was fruit I was eating than things containing un natural sugars?

Surely it’s better to eat half a melon or a bowl of strawberries than it is a bowl of ice cream or a chocolate bar? Fruit contains vitamins? A lot of vegetables also contain sugar but people don’t say ‘stop eating veg’?

Everything in moderation.

Caribbean That wasn’t a compliment! 😂
Although with your poor teeth, I’m not surprised you didn’t want me to call your children horsey!

It’s all a bit mad isn’t it?

The dentist told me that raisins are bad as they are sticky so perhaps should swap to chocolate buttons as a treat instead for my toddler.

I’m not sure I’ve picked my jaw off the floor yet. Perhaps I should see a dentist about that.

Darling
I didn’t think it was a compliment!

The fructose in fruit is dealt with by the body in a completely different way to glucose in sweets and other simple carbs. The body turns what of it it needs to glucose for the brain but it isn't the immediate hit of glucose that can lead (in part) to diabetes.

What a lot of confusing messages.

I’m no expert but - Are people really not eating something with lots of vitamins and goodness because it might cause... tooth problems?

I’d sooner have a few fillings than scurvy.

I personally am not going to be taken in by this ridiculous fruit is evil rhetoric. I love fruit and always had unlimited access to the fruit bowl as a child, I’ve always been slim and never had any issues with my teeth. I allow DD the same, and because berries are in season I’ve been letting her pick a punnet at the green grocers almost daily to have with granola and yoghurt for breakfast or as a pudding with a squeeze of honey. But then I let her have refined sugar treats occasionally too, maybe I’m a terrible parent. We all eat plenty of vegetables so I’m not concerned tbh.

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