- Hey guys, Robby here.
Today we're gonna be answering the question
is fruit healthy?
So I'll cut right to the chase and say yes,
fruit is healthy, but there's some nuance to the answer
that if you're curious about whether fruit's healthy
you may want to stay tuned for.
First thing to say is that we tend to lump
fruits and vegetables together when we talk about them
as a society.
People say did you get your eight to 10 servings
of fruits and vegetables?
And typically, fruits are listed first.
An important thing to say right off the bat,
fruits are not in the same category as vegetables.
They just aren't.
You could go the rest of your entire life
without having another single fruit,
and you could still manage to be perfectly healthy
eating quality protein, vegetables and healthy fats.
The same is not true for vegetables.
If your were to go the rest of your life
without eating any vegetables,
you would be severely deficient,
almost certainly, in certain nutrients.
So while fruits and vegetables are both healthy,
they are not on the same playing field.
Fruits are optional and nice and they're healthy
and they taste delicious and they're great
and they can be added to a healthy diet,
but they are not necessary for health,
so that's point number one.
Point number two is that in,
I would say, the paleo primal world,
there are two opposite ends of an extreme
in terms of opinions on fruit.
One end of the extreme basically says that
no one ever got fat, sick or diabetic from eating fruit.
The other end of the extreme says fructose
is essentially toxic to our body
because it gets primarily metabolized by the liver,
and the more we can minimize it the better.
And even more generally, the types of fruits we eat today,
we didn't eat in the past.
So I would say overall, I'm somewhere in the middle
between these two, probably closer to the first one
that said no one ever got fat, sick or diabetic
from eating fruit.
But that being said, there is something to the other side.
On the one side, I agree absolutely.
No one ever got fat, sick or diabetic
just from eating fruit,
but at the same time there are certain considerations
to take into account with fruit consumption today.
Number one,
historically speaking, we weren't eating fruit year-round.
So from a historical perspective,
humans until relatively recently, like the past 100 years,
weren't eating strawberries in January,
because fruit was seasonal.
Furthermore, historically, the types of fruits
that we were eating tended to be very low in sugar.
So an apple in nature is much more like a crab apple,
which if you've ever had one,
you'll know is really, really tart.
It's almost bitter, and it's just got a little bit
of sweetness, and over the course of history,
we have selectively bred apples to be
like a Red Delicious apple which has a lotta sugar,
a lotta fructose, tastes really sweet
and it's lower in fiber.
These wild counterparts of these fruits tend to be healthier
'cause there's health in the bitter compounds,
and the more contemporary counterparts
tend to be much sweeter.
It's important to keep in mind that while fruit is healthy
and no one ever became fat, sick or diabetic
just from eating fruit the same way someone could
from eating, or from having Pepsi, or from having
fast food, it's also important to remember
that we weren't having Red Delicious apples
every single day from a historical perspective,
and Red Delicious apples didn't even exist.
And that by itself isn't a condemnation
of Red Delicious apples.
It's just to say that an apple in nature
doesn't have 40 grams of sugar, right?
Depending on the size of the apple
and the nature of the apple, it's a lot lower in sugar.
With that all in mind, what are my rules for fruits?
So here are my rules for fruit.
Number one, eat your fruit; don't drink it.
Your fruit should be consumed as a food
rather than drunk like orange juice or something like that.
It's gonna be a lot better on your blood sugar,
a lot better for nutrient absorption, fiber absorption,
all the rest of that stuff, so try to eat your fruit
rather than drink your fruit.
Number two, you're going to wanna have fruit as a dessert
for a meal rather than as a meal itself.
Now, if you need it for a snack,
or if it's between you and McDonald's
'cause you're really hungry and all you have is a fruit,
have a fruit.
But generally speaking, treat fruit as a finisher to a meal
rather than a meal itself.
And number three, tend to prioritize
those lower-glycemic fruits.
It's harder in the winter depending on where you live,
especially in Northern Indiana,
but berries are pretty low-glycemic, meaning lower sugar.
You wanna favor those.
There's nothing technically wrong with a banana or an apple,
but generally speaking, berries have a higher nutrient
component, and they have a lower sugar component.
And then in terms of organic versus nonorganic,
apples, berries, grapes, things like that
you almost always wanna buy organic
'cause they're very high in pesticides,
whereas oranges, bananas and pineapples,
you don't need to worry as much
'cause you end up peeling off or cutting off the skin.
All right guys, so hopefully now you've got a good sense
of whether fruit is healthy.
You've got a better sense of the nuance of the debate,
and hopefully you have some practical tips
to help you with your fruit consumption.
All right guys, thanks so much for tunin' in.
We'll see you next time.
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