Monday, August 5, 2013

Fruit nuitrition

Maybe you've heard the argument that the sugar in fruit is still sugar, so it can be bad for you and you should not eat too much fruit.  That argument is being countered.

There are some important advantages to eating whole, fresh fruit.  You can gulp down a glass of juice in less time, but that puts a lot of sugar into your bloodstream pretty quickly.  Whole fruit's fiber slows down the absorption of that sugar.  The fiber is in the cell walls, and it slows down that absorption most efficiently if the cell walls are not ground up in the blender.

There's more depth to the case for eating fruit in this NY Times article.

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