Do you eat tinned fruit daily and are you healthy?

[Belledan1]

Bit boring but with lockdown and shopping, its good to keep tinned supplies in. I have started to eat more frozen berries and mango since i got a bigger freezer and love it. Friend is organising Christmas food hampers and my part was to get loads of tins of fruit. Was amazed at the varieties. I have bought pineapple in the past but don't tend to go to that section of the supermarket. I know Slimming World you are not allowed it. Well I got 2 tins of pears for myself (in juice of course) - they were so nice. I love pears but fresh ones are either really hard or suddenly go really mushy. Was wondering if this was a good option, the calories do not look that high really and nice and easy to prepare. Was thinking trying the peaches and apples next. Family bit fussy re fruit but do eat bananas and oranges so would carry on getting them. What do you have if you have it and does it help with weight loss/sustaining weight?

Don't know about the weight loss, but would say tinned fruit is less healthy than fresh, frozen or dried, but more healthy than most other sweet foods. Always go for the one in natural juice rather than syrup or sweetened juice as that will make a huge difference health wise. I love tinned fruit - thanks for reminding me it exists!

Tinned fruit is sweeter than fresh fruit. In addition to that, it is peeled, especially the ones you mention, peaches and pears, so you have less fibre, and many phytonutrients and protective polyphenols are in the peel. Vitamin wise, vitamin c will be slightly depleted. The fruits are cooked or heated to eliminate micrograms, and this usually also destroys the B vitamins.

Also consider that your microbiome starts in the mouth. Eating. crunchy fruit, as the pear, is beneficial for you and them.

If your kids are already fussy around fruit, giving them sweeter, softer and cooked fruit will only reinforce their distaste. Try to increase the fresh fruit by arranging it on a skewer, make a lovely looking fruit platter and so on.

It's not going to help with weight loss unless you are swapping it for chocolate bars. It's also lacking in most of the health benefits of fresh fruit. As a snack within your calorie allowance it's perfectly fine though

We share the occasional tinned fruit cocktail in juice. It’s nice to have something sweet after a meal sometimes. I am careful calories wise (log everything on MFP) so it’s fine weight wise as I keep within my calorie targets & sometimes have it with a spoon of vanilla ice cream.
I used to love tinned pears as a kid! I didn’t know tinned apples existed. Peaches were my least favourite as a kid so I would never buy them now. We do have pineapple on occasion too. It’s not something we buy every week but once we’ve had a tin of fruit we remember we like it then will have it a couple more times then forget about it again for several months.

I think tinned fruit in own juices is actually more nutritious than fresh fruit? The fruit is tinned shortly after harvest, whereas fresh fruit is transported, across continents, then can be on shop shelves for days. The vitamin and mineral content decays over time with tmosphere and light whereas it is preserved when tinned. Same as frozen, the good stuff is preserved. Calorie content the same.

I love tinned mandarin segments but I do get an itchy throat after eating them which I don’t get from eating a fresh mandarin.

Tinned fruit is very much an occasional food here, there is no way they have even half the nutritional benefit of fresh fruit.

There’s a lot of rubbish written on here! It is actually more nutritious for the reasons above! So much snobbery

www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbcgoodfood.com/howto/guide/are-tinned-fruit-and-vegetables-good-you/amp

Ooooo.... love a nice tin of fruit salad. Haven't had one for about 18 years. Never enough glace cherries.

It was always a treat when I was a child. Mind you, most things were.

I occasionally give my son tinned fruit but we never have it regularly as several dentists have told me it's bad for your teeth.

A lot of tinned fruit is in syrup ie with sugar. So it probably won’t help with weight loss but if you are fit active then you should be fine.

@BookWormBitch

There’s a lot of rubbish written on here! It is actually more nutritious for the reasons above! So much snobbery

Do you have a source that confirms this? You writing this doesn't make it any more valid than the above unless you have some way to prove it.

'BookWormBitch' isn't a reliable, scientific source, sadly.

My sons have a bowl of tinned fruit in its own juice every morning as part of their breakfast just to keep up their fruit and veg intake really.

Tinned grapefruit in syrup, ice cold out of the fridge is delicious. I was obsessed with it when I was pregnant many moons ago.

I've not looked into the relative benefits but tinned fruit is better than no fruit.

Adult DS doesn't eat veg but does eat fruit, i'll sometimes give him tinned if i don't have enough variety of fresh.

It's also a good way to make a fruit salad with fresh fruit and then add in a tin of mandarins etc and if you cover and pop in the fridge it stays fresh for a few days.

I only ever buy it in juice. DS is particularly partial to apricots but I struggled to get any during lock down and for months afterwards.

I've sometimes bought apples and used it for a quick crumble or pie.

I love tinned peaches, pineapple and pears and usually have some for breakfast. I tried tinned apricots, but didn’t like them. Tinned prunes are very good for you, but I don’t like them either.

I love tinned fruit. Eat it most days with a big dollop of greek yoghurt. I often mix it with whatever fresh fruit I have or cooked frozen fruit.
No idea about how it affects someone on a diet as I've never dieted.

Directly under BookwormBitch post is an article from a nutritionist which says the difference between fresh and tinned fruit in water or juice is negligible.

Do read the thread before going off on a rant won't you

It's important to remember that fresh fruit from supermarkets was usually picked before it had a chance to ripen and was stored for a long time. That's how you lose some nutrients. It's sadly often not as full of goodness as we would hope.

Never get a canned peas. 🤢

I like tinned pears in my porridge. I love tinned mandarins straight out of the tin. The kids love pineapple and peaches and mango. Always got something in the cupboard.

I've got some tinned fruit in the garage on the basis it would be better than nothing but I don't think it's a good choice when you have other options, although that's just something I've always thought rather than any substantiated fact. I do like it though, it feels more like a dessert than fresh fruit.

I have frozen berries almost every day. As I understand it frozen is often better than fresh (because it's not very fresh by the time we get it)

Tinned fruit- in juice, not syrup- is fine! SW doesn’t like it because it’s sometimes semi cooked, and it’s easier to eat so you’re likely
To eat more than a portion and it requires less energy to eat, plus less fibre as peeled etc.

Diabetes UK recommends tin fruit. It’s often better in terms of nutrients than supermarket poorer quality fresh fruit.

I love tinned peaches on rice pudding, but then I’m not posh!

And no fruit is good for your teeth! Obviously there are worse things, but fruit contains natural sugars. Not great for teeth!