By now, you've probably heard of antioxidants —these substances have long been hailed for their cancer-fighting, anti-aging benefits. Well, many fruits are chock full of them. In particular, Ayesta says citrus fruits are high in vitamin c, mangoes are packed with beta carotene, watermelon is loaded with lycopene, and berries and apples boast lots of other important antioxidants.
So, eating colorful fruits that are rich in antioxidants keep us healthy and young. Claybrook adds that antioxidants also both boost your immune system as well as decrease inflammation.
Since each type of antioxidant has different health benefits, Glazer recommends switching up what kinds of fruit you're eating on the daily. While fruit only really has trace amounts of protein, it can still be surprisingly satiating. According to experts, this is because it's high in both water and fiber. Ayesta adds that both the fiber and water content contribute to a lot of volume in your stomach, thus giving you the feeling of fullness without providing a ton of calories.
Since fruits are rich in water content, they can definitely aid in hydration — especially varieties like melon and pineapple, according to Ayesta. That makes fruit an ideal post-workout snack or quick pick-me-up on a sweltering summer's day.
Your body relies on certain vitamins and minerals to function properly—and fortunately, fruit is loaded with lots of essential nutrients. For my healthy eating tips, be sure to sign up for our newsletter. I only just realised that fruit has loads of natural sugars that could not have been doing me any favours.
Everything you said proved true for me. The more fruit i ate the more i wanted to eat. It was tho you wrote the article just for me. Thank you and as of this morning, no more fruit for a while for me!!! I have been eating a big bowl of fruit salad for breakfast every day for the last 3 months, thinking it would be good for my health and help me to lose weight. I stumbled across an article about fructose intolerance and malabsorption and recognised the symptoms immediately.
Paid a visit to my GP as the pain felt like period pain coming from my ovary went through the menopause 12 years ago but she said I was probably suffering from IBS. So I will definately be laying off fruit for a while until things return to normal!!
I eat a minimum of 3 servings of fruit a day! I will eat an apple at break and lunch, sometimes a banana with breakfast, and then grapes at lunch, and an apple after dinner! I have eaten a lot more fruit the last few months, about 4 a day and I have noticed I have put on weight on my lower stomach area.
As well I have had bad stomach pains too and bloating. Will this be permanent? I just found this and everything I can agree with. I am ,in fact, eating too much fruit. Wish me luck! Whoops, I have been eating about 3 portions a day. I think I will stick to 2. I would much rather eat a bowl of grapes than a packet of potato chips though.
But I hear you on the vegetables… I think I should probably focus on getting more of that in my eating habits. This might be a bit off topic but I personally am not trying to lose weight but rather I gym everyday and I eat fruit strictly for lunch. The reason being is its easy to throw some fruit into a lunchbox and cheap where I stay.
Its healthy and Im allergic to nuts so something like muesli and yogurt wont work for me. Now, if i get to gym everyday surely the sugar isnt an issue as it wont be in my system long enough to be converted into and stored as carbs and should be used up when I work out right?
Basically I want to know if this is a good idea or if im countering my workout due to the sugar intake? But with every lb. I got addicted to fruit smoothies and was having about 2 a day. Powder After about 2 weeks ,I awoke feeling like I needed to throw up and my stomach felt out of sorts for about a week.
This is reason I looked up this topic. I found this article on a google search. I am a recent smoothie convert and was concerned about my new Ultra High dose of fruits per day. I eat a lot fruit thinking it would help me lose weight. Sometimes I eat so much blueberries that my excrement smells like blueberries am I eating too many blueberries? I am currently in severe stomach distress so I consulted my favorite physician — Google — for a diagnosis. Last night, I mindlessly snacked on a rather large portion 2 cups, perhaps of leftover fruit salad that I had made two days prior.
I had trouble falling asleep 4 hours of tossing and turning and awoke just an hour later with bloating, gas pain and colic, bowel noises, nausea and diarrhea. An hour later, I am full on vomitting with runny bloody diarrhea. Well, not only did I have WAAAY TOO much fruit, but I also learned that I could have easily misprepared the fruit salad by not washing the rind of the cantaloupe and using the same knife to cut the rind off as I did to cut it up, without so much as washing in between.
Google taught me that this alone could introduce bacteria including the dreaded e-Coli! I am particularly sensitive to e-Coli having been terribly affected and hospitalized by it six years ago. I nearly lost my life then when the bacteria attacked my pancreas and threw me into a sudden onset diabetic coma. I was warned then that the littlest bit of e-Coli could cause an e-Coli storm in my intestines — and I thought that meant I must avoid undercooked red meats, not my beloved fruits!
Sorry to hear that, Ellen. I recently decided to keep track of the fruit I eat and discovered I can eat over g in 1 day! Definitely need to reign in my portion control. The amount of sugar I must be getting is crazy. Hopefully I will finally start to loose some weight as well. I eat way too much fruit. Probably about 7 portions per day. Will this be the cause of my current skin issues? I make smoothie with one Apple, fresh aloe Vera, cucumber and about 60 grms of blueberry, I hope am not taking too high fructose levels doing that, I have been doing this for more than six months now, and being a athematic I must say my immunity has never been better, Though I think I have felt bloating issue many number of times, I recently have started taking two slices of full grain breads along with it, to give my smoothie some solidity, thanks for giving me idea of combining it with nuts, Would you like to suggest some tweek in my breakfast scheme?
It will be highly appreciable. Sure thing. Fruit is an amazing source of nutrition and there are NO adverse health effects of adding fruit to your diet and, actually, not really an adverse effects of adding fruit to your diet in regards to your weight.
Also, I have maintained my weight after losing 20 pounds with eating pretty much unlimited fruit when I am hungry. I only eat until I feel satisfied…but some days I eat as many as 4- 6 bananas… and that is just bananas. Side note: Fruit actually helps regulate blood sugar for diabetics when added to meals despite that fact it has god forbid natural fructose the devil, right?!
This is a very unfair way to characterise the article. You are not considering relativity. Certainly the spike in blood sugar from an ice cream cone is not the same that of a banana — but the banana will cause a spike nonetheless. It stands to reason that if the banana is a stand-out on the glycemic index for a person higher than the rest of her diet , that spike will have a greater effect than on someone who eats poorly. Also, nowhere in the article does the author suggest starving oneself to be thin.
It seems to me the author is trying to help people, not sabatoge anyone. Having read the studies you refer to, a very small amount of fructose in a meal results in lower blood sugars if it replaces an isocaloric amount of glucose. However, if you just eat less glucose instead the effect is likely to be superior; and fructose in these small amounts is also supplied by carrot, beetroot, parsnip, sweet potato, and so on — there is nothing special about fruit. I cannot!! I can tolerate some berries after a gym workout but otherwise get heartburn, bloating and fatigue.
Now please stop being a bully.. She clearly did not say that fruit is bad! I laid off the fruit for a couple of days and I was good. Well last night I had 2 fresh pears and now my stomach is cutting up again. I want to continue to have the fresh fruit and now I know what to eat and what not to eat. I believe I am fructose intolerant as well so this article was very helpful. I never thought about eating too much fruit before reading this article.
I constantly have smoothies with TONS of fruit. Thank you for this article as it was really eye opening! Hmmm I am thin but now wondering if all my fruits are keeping my belly fat?? I eat healthy but love my sugar and I am a bit outside the normal sugar range which is Thank you so very much!!!!!
Great article! Any thoughts? There age. How much they eat or drink or get enough in a day. I mmyself have health iissues. No one is really saying stay away from Apples red or green. Stay away from bananas. All I here are lies. And people contradicting there stories. From fitness trainers to movie stars. People have a basket full of everything. Like I was stating…. I health problems. A turkeytearian. I also have COPD diagnosed in 07 never ever smoked a day in my life Been on steroids pill form 20mg it changes.
So you see. No judgement from me. Good look to everyone and their goals. My Dr recommend a banana 2times a day. I can put away 3 pounds of blueberries every day… way too expensive and I have not been able to lose weight! I found this article very interesting. I do have a question tho. You suggest some smoothie combinations to lessen blood sugar impact — why do you single out coconut milk as opposed to other dairy-free options?
I usually switch between soy and almond. I just found your site through this article and look forward to coming back. I think that rather than hate you, fruit lovers like me are going to love you. I decided to googled this topic cause I recently started to work out and with that comes new better eating habits.
I thought that eating fruit was good but now a days I sincerely do not know what good is. I thought that I was eating too much fruit and you just confirmed it.
I have been pretty much snacking on mostly fruits and I cannot go without my smoothies. You make excellent suggestions. I think that my lesson from reading your post is that everything should be taken in moderation. This is my first time leaving a comment but what you wrote is so informative that I had to honestly thank you. I dont normally eat much fruit, am a veg person normally.
But lately have been craving fruit. I ate 6 portions in one sitting.!. The next morning woke with tummy ache and trots. Feal very bloated, and even put on wieght.. If I ate as much fruit as you everyday, I would be spending most of my time on the toilet with diarrhea.
There is a lot of evidence that large amounts of fructose can cause harm when consumed in excess. However, this depends on the dosage and context and does not apply to fruit. Okay, well you try explaining that to my digestive system then.
Besides lactose, the only other thing to give me extreme digestive issues is fruit. No other high fiber foods cause as much trouble. Thank you so much for this enlightening article. I was craving for it but guess what? It also sure rings a bell about the impossibility to lose weight… will try it out! I just recently started making smoothies.
With fruit, unsweetened almond milk, and protein powder. I have one for breakfast and one for lunch and then eat a reasonable dinner. I was a fast food 3x a day person and never ate fruit. I cannot handle textures.. Made from organic powder in my home. I did a search on eating fruit and upset stomach and ended up here. I had a train journey to make last Friday and had consumed a punnet small one of blue berries a few hours before.
I ended up having to stand outside of the train loo for the last hour of the journey, feeling bloated, sick, hot, cold and really quite unwell. I thought I had picked up a 12 hour bug. Today I bought a pint of mixed fruit and eat the lot after a salad lunch and my god I am feeling it again now. Not nice! I have been trying to figure out the culprit of my bloating..
I originally thought it was the beans, lentils and brown rice I was consuming. I have to asses my diet, reduce the fruit and add more veggies … Boy, I hope this helps with my digestion.
I decided to eat cleaner, and I love fruit! I ate fruit in the morning, afternoon, evening and in between. I love fruit and figured its fresh, nutritious, unprocessed etc! Well, I began experiencing bloating, indigestion, burning sensation in abdominal area.
This went in for a couple weeks. My husband just lost his job, so I had no insurance. I was on web-md diagnosing myself with everthing from ulcers to cancer!
Then at work I was feeling nauseated, and miserable! I tried to eat a chicen ceasar salad, but was just too sick. I ate two minuscule pieces of lettuce, sipped on some club soda and just could not eat. I found the club soda to be soothing The burning, bloating and nausea had gotten the best of me. I didnt eat all day and the discomfort began to subside.
Never did it enter my mind it could be my fresh healthy fruit. After all, I could live on fresh fruit and some protein. Later that evening feeling some hunger pangs, but afraid to eat only sipping perrier.
I finally threw caution to the wind and got a plain hot dog from as I was starving. I waited for the dreaded burning, bloating and nausea. It didnt happen. I drank club soda and later had some brown rice and garlic shrimp and a thai ice tea. No pain or discomfort. I later had some cheese and crackers, no problem. I finally started to realize maybe it was all the fruit! I began searching google and found this thread! This morning not a bite of fruit and my stomach is 90 improved.
I will now be incorporating more veggies and easing up on the fruit to see how things go. I love fruit and I consume at least 7 portions a day but not shifting weight like I feel I should. Which is annoying because I do everything by the book. Then I get told I eat to much fruit. Reading this makes me realise why. I do get bloated but not always. I will try cutting it down to 2 portions and maybe snack add some vegetables as I usually only have a day.
Thank you for this article it defiantly makes me realise why I may not be losing the weight. Thank you very much for your very informative article. I am one of the many readers who binged on fruit and never thought it to be an issue as I am quite lean, very active and have no problems with my sugar levels.
But now, I know better and will try to cut back on the fruit. The difficulty is what else to eat between meals as I am a vegetarian, eats loads of vegetables including green juice and I try to eat processed food like rice crackers sparingly. After reading your very informative article, I fall under 1. I noticed that after eating a couple of peaches a day, I was very bloated and my sugar readings were slightly higher. Also noticed weight gain, I guess from the bloating and I am pretty fit, but with the peaches I noticed a difference.
I will be cutting out peaches! How funny is that. Even my blood test is perfect. The 5 points would be:. You are obese 2. You generally experience heart attacks 3. You have sweet tooth after each meal 4. Your conscience is telling you to stop killing innocent beings 5. You tend to become ill more often.
Of course these points are a bit edgy but so your points are. All of them are real concerns about consuming mostly fat and protein instead of carbohydrates, which fuels our body naturally. You even know that well if you have a degree of nutrition.
I take a sandwich bag full of grapes and cherries. I also have one smoothie a day made with 1 cup of blackberries, strawberries 1 bananak and vanilla yogurt. Also one scoop of greens. Is this to much fruit. I googled this coz I have had an increase in headaches, bad ones! I got very sick, and vomited many times, and I got so weak I could barely walk. Anyway, I am male, 54 yrs old and thought I was losing weight. The bloating thing really hit true for me.
Just an insight to my day — half a watermelon, 3 kiwis, 3 pears, 2 apples, 2 oranges, berries, a whole box of strawberries. I no longer drink sugared beverages and cut down drastically foods with table sugar but i now eat a lot fruit. The results are no more IBS and i have lost weight!!! No bloating, diarrhea, exercise 3 days week, walk miles days week, but cannot lose desired 10 lbs midsection weight.
Should I cut some of the fruit? Hi Lilly Can you please explain how fructose raises blood sugar. Best wishes Jillian. I tried removing all common food allergens to see if my digestive problems would go away. Between the diet change itself and all that healthy food I was eating, everything got way worse. As I eat loads of plums and peaches that my coworkers brought in from their trees, your post is a great reminder that natural does not mean unconditionally healthy, and it all comes down to moderation.
I understand how blood sugar can be impacted but I am not aware of I what you mentioned in a comment about having difficulty digesting a protein-containing meal with fruit. Right with you Lily.
Fruit is advertised to us both in nature and marketing as being better for us than it really is. I think of this post every time I purchase fruit. It is so true. Veggies can be just as yummy. Add some legumes or beans to a salad for a healthy dinner. I also love egg salad on a bed on fresh spinach for a quick and easy lunch.
I live in FLA so am fortunate to have fresh fruit and veggies year round. Hi Lily! Welcome to the PNW! Rob and I loved it there and we are hoping to be back next summer. I know you will enjoy all the wonderful things the area has to offer! When adjusting my diet, I realized I was eating too much fruit through my sugar intake. So I actually switched out a high-sugar fruit which I was eating with the thought of getting vitamins and fiber , with a low-sugar, low-glycemic granola bar as my mid-morning snack.
I had way more energy and my digestion got back on track surprisingly quickly. Though, that being said, the northwest cherries are amazing. As always, thank you for your food advice! I eat 2 or 3 fruits every morning but not half cups of each. Usually rasp.
Is that over doing? Sandee lee. I chose fruit — oh wow!! I bloated, cramped, burped and all the other ghastly results of over-fruiting. I am dead against juicing and smoothies owing to the amount of sugar consumed in one portion. Good morning Lily it has been mentioned to us that we eat far too much fruit. I must emphasise that I am extremely health conscious most of the time, but occasionally binge. Every second day we have a smoothie consisting of 1 stick celery, 1 carrot.
To this we add 1 tablespoon raw honey. I eat as a very large breakfast daily — in my nutra bullet raspberries,blueberries,blackberries,ground almonds,chia seeds,pumpkin seeds,sunflower seeds,flax seeds,q 10,walnuts,Brazil nuts,sesame seeds,full fat Greek yogurt,agave syrup,dates and almond milk..
Having suffered from gallstones from a diet high in cheese years ago I find that on the rare occasions I have had an attack after being tempted with a cheese dish the only food my body will willingly accept and feel good on is the above mix of nutrients. I eat in one day 2 granny apples, 2 nectarines or peaches, a good handfull of strawberries and oikos yogurt with a ton of fresh blueberries added to it.
Feel very bloated and agitated afterwards so now i know why, thank you for this insight and please know that i try to be very healthy with my food choices, i used to weigh pounds and now i am pounds and have kept it off with diet and exercise for 10 years but in the last year have become addicted to fruit but have severe bloating so any advice would be appreciated, i am 41 years old and female if this means anything.
I got prove that eating too much fruit is harmless. Even for diabetic type 2 patients. For reference, a small apple weighs about g. So glad I found this!! In total shock that you can eat too much fruit! Yes I have been extra amounts since I got my new blender. I will be cutting back as from today, learning I suffer the side affects. Thank for the tip! Thank for the tip. I definitely suffer fruit side affects. Will be cutting back as from today. I have all the five symptoms mentioned.
I joined Slimming World and eat huge amounts of fruit. I told the leader about this and she laughed it off. Thank you so much. I run miles per week and eat unlimited fruit. It really is disgusting. I wonder as I get older my body cannot handle all the fruit, as I do seem to be a bit more bloated, but I am so hooked.
I found this really helpful! I also absolutely love smoothies and usually have a glass of OJ mid morning. Immediately after eating, I was getting stomach aches and had to go, I was worried for my training and your article has reassured to me that there is such a thing as having too much, balance is key!
Unfortunately, I just ate 8 apricots and that was definitely not even half of the fruit I ate all day…. Gonna have to work on it. Is it good or bad for my liver? I joined Weight Watchers Dec I am down 30 pounds, and thank fruit for that.
Most fruits are 0 points, so I have been eating lots of fruit, so I can eat dinner with my hubby. I have a few of the symptoms you mentioned, and no idea where they may have come from! Now I know, and thank you! Look out veggies, my new love!! Into my second week of a four week stay on the island of Malta. Only to find myself in the early hours with a painful stomach and running to the loo. However, coming upon this sight has lead me to a whole new way of looking at fruit and of how they should be consumed.
You have possibly saved me from having more of upset stomach in the future. But seeing it all in black and white, wow! Thank you for an altered perspective. Thank you!! Thanks so much? Hi there. I starting following fruitians in a Facebook page.
I absolutely relate to the factor of bloating! I consume a great deal of fruit. Thanks for the tips. Wow, thank you for this information!! A couple months ago I had to take some antibiotics.
I read that lactose can cause diarrhea for 6 weeks after antibiotics, so I thought it must be my morning yogurt causing the problem. Then one day I had the yogurt without any fruit and I had no diarrhea! I thought I was really being nice to my body by eating so much fruit. After reading your article I am guessing that the real cause of my diarrhea is the fruit!! I was doing fine until 2 months ago. I am in my mids, athletic, thin, vegequarian vegetarian plus a little bit of fish.
Thanks again! This article was very helpful! False post……. This is some really great information. It was easy to understand. Recently I have been eating too much fruit and this information really helped me understand about how much ftuit to eat.
Thank you so much this information really helped and I am now going to share this website with my friends.?? Man, this kinda bums me out. I have been trying to eat better and have substituted fruit for snacks. Guess I need to work on balancing with more veggies. I was always told to keep it down to 2 a day, which felt like a cruel and unusual punishment. One of the side-effects that has always bothered me the most is the bloating and the stomach aches, most prominent after eating tropical fruits that I adore like papaya and pineapple, or oranges; also, apples always make me soooo hungry!
I wish you all good luck in your attempts to keep fruit from taking over your life :. In other words, their bodies are trying to get the nutrients by binging on the foods that contain them. Is that true? This is not ideal, disruption to meditation and requiring more sleep is undesirable. A week or so ago I was lying down for a while, and when I got up I started feeling faint and almost collapsed to the floor, getting a blackout. My zinc was low several months ago, but since I started taking zinc tablets it has been good.
I got a blood test in early August, and my iron, vitamin B12, and vitamin D levels were low. Recently I tested the acidity of my saliva—it was 6. I was also having a banana, six dates, and a handful of sultanas every morning. I may still adjust to reduce my fruit intake and see how that goes. We tend to eat them more like a vegetable than a fruit because they are not as sweet, and the latter two are only mildly acidic.
I get plenty of exercise and am slightly underweight, so fruit intake is not a concern for me in terms of weight. It was my mum that said and may I quote this just rolled off her tongue your fruit intake is way to much its just pure sugar, my reply rubbish fruit is good for you and low fat.
How wrong was I , mums know best. I have since stopped my fruit just to see what happens. Hi Lily, just came across your website. I have eaten now I think too much fruit for the last few years. Since the birth of my 2 children I decided it was time I lost some weight. I reduced my portions and carb intake dramatically but carried on eating the same amount of fruit as before.
No wonder I have hardly lost weight. I am so glad I came across this article. I think now I have a plan! Firstly I craved any kind of olives I ate them by the catering tin, each day, and not a lot else, for months and months. Suddenly I stopped. Instead I ate 5 X 4 pun nets if necturines a day. You've been told since you were a kid how important it is to eat fruit.
But is there such thing as too much? As a nutritionist, I've worked with clients on both ends of the fruit-eating spectrum: Some shunned fruit completely due to its carb and sugar content, while others loaded up on fruit because it's rich in nutrients.
The reality is, the ideal amount lies somewhere in between these two extremes, and it varies from person to person. To help you figure out your own sweet spot when it comes to fruit, here are four important things to keep in mind. As a general rule, you probably need somewhere between two to four servings of fruit a day. What's a proper serving? Either one cup, or a piece of fruit about the size of a baseball.
But if your activity level varies from day to day, your fruit needs might change as well. For example, many of my female clients eat one serving of fruit with breakfast, and another as part of a daytime snack a good go-to strategy!
But on days they have a tough workout, they may add a third serving, such as a small, pre-exercise banana. However, for active men, teens, and tall, younger women with active jobs, four servings a day tends to be about right. Some of my pro athlete clients need more than four servings a day, but that's not the norm for most of us. Here's why you shouldn't eat an unlimited amount of fruit, or even overdo it: While it may be packed with nutrients, fruit is also a major source of carbs.
One medium apple, a cup of blueberries, and a small banana each contain about 20 grams.
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