If sugar from fruit doesn’t count towards sugar intake because of the fibre, how is it any different than drinking fruit juice mixed with psyllium husk or other fibre supplement?
Fruit juice/smoothies still aren’t great or good.
Sugar in fruit does matter, it’s just really hard to consume too much sugar from fruit due to the fibre.
You would have to consume 7 oranges to get as much carbs as in a chocolate bar and crisps.
The fibre, really just makes it harder to consume that much sugar from fruit, just because it’s physically hard and will fill you up.
Now if you had juice and fibre, you probably could quite easily consume calories from 7 oranges in a single sitting. Which would be as bad if not worse than the chocolate bar and crisps.
So it’s not simply there being fibre, it’s how that fibre limits calories consumed.
Fibre will also reduce sugar/insulin spikes, but I’m not sure how much real impact that has on health. I think total calories are much more important.
Look… something in it’s original form is always going to be the way to go, despite there being comparable substitutes. All sugar counts eventually, and fruit is not bad. Too much of a good thing can hurt you, someone watching their sugar does want to be mindful of fruit. Sugar is sugar, the body processes all sugar the same. There are benefits of getting sugar from fruit, such as fiber and other nutrients. But big picture, if you are watching sugar, a gram of sugar is a gram of sugar.
Yeah, no. Not true at all.
Fruit is healthy in moderation, they do carry some vitamins, minerals but should not be over consumed, too much fructose can be hard on the liver and it’s also readily stored as fat.
Modern days we have fruits from around the world at our finger tips year round, where as with primitive humans a fruit would be considered a rare and seasonal treat to find, certainly not something that was consumed every day.
Sugar in fruit does count as sugar intake.
However the usda dietary guidelines are for added sugars only. Fruit contains natural sugars, and as long as the juice doesn’t have added sugars then it should read the same on the label as 0g added sugars.
And yes metabolically speaking soluble fiber slows down glucose absorption. If you are concerned about blood sugar spikes and risk of diabetes, pairing your fruit juice with sources of fiber will help.
Juice? High intake rate and low satiety. Also, free sugar. A fiber capsule doesn’t put it back into the food matrix.
Simple sugar in whole fruits is not free sugar, hence it doesn’t add to the daily limit set by the WHO and the EFSA, sugars in honey for example do.
You are fine as long as you consume the whole fruit. This includes smoothies.
You do not get a sugar or insulin spike from smoothies any more than you would from fruit.
You won’t gain weight or have the same effects as eating table sugar.
It is difficult for thr body to turn sugar into fat. This is called Denovolipogenesis and accounts for roughly only 2% of fat production and only when excess calories are consumed.