Hello r/nutrition!
I have a question about fiber consumption as it relates to sugar metabolization. To protect the liver, does fiber need to be consumed simultaneously with the sucrose (e.g. fruit)? Is it just as beneficial to have a high fiber diet to help defend against sucrose consumption?
Thanks!
Only excess calories of sugar is bad for your liver. So as long as you aren’t overweight and eating too much you don’t need to worry about your liver. Now if you are talking about insulin then the fibre in whole fruit slows absorption of sugar which is good.
This doesn’t make sense, to eat something to offset something else you eat. In that case, why eat the sugar at all?
Fibre is not necessary in the diet. Neither are sugars. You body makes its own on demand.
Fruit is fine, if you want to eat it.
Its a whole food and in reasonable quantities*, its not ‘bad for you’.
‘Reasonably quantities*’ defined as a piece of fruit or two a day. If you are fruitarian, you are asking for trouble.