Sugar in Fruit

Eddie and I enjoy a selection of 'low carb fruits' in our menu plans, served with double cream they do taste great !



Reading Zoe Harcombes recent post I thought it one to share...

Sugar in fruit

" Five a day is not an evidence based nutrition message. In this post I ask the question – is it still a good message – even though it’s not evidence based? I give five reasons as to why it is not a good message: the lost opportunity of making “eat real food” as well known as “five a day”;  people having five a day ‘as well as’ not ‘instead of’; making bad choices to get five a day; the problem of fruit and starchy vegetables for carbohydrate sensitive/insulin resistant people; and the weight issue with fructose. As Gary Taubes says “If you’re overweight, fruit is not your friend.”

2015 has seen far greater awareness about sugar and there have been many newspaper articles showing how many teaspoons of sugar are in everything from pizza to prosecco. This post is about sugar in fruit.

Different forms of sugar ... you can go and read more here

http://www.zoeharcombe.com/2015/12/sugar-in-fruit/

Thanks Jan,
I worked through the references and it is helping me possibly find the cause of my N.A.F.L.D.
It is particularly Dr.Robert Lustig and Dr.Richard Johnson who were involved in this work.


Interesting reading, apparently the body can make fructose from non fructose carbs if our insulin resistance is poor.

atb
Derek

Derek wrote:Thanks Jan,
I worked through the references and it is helping me possibly find the cause of my N.A.F.L.D.
It is particularly Dr.Robert Lustig and Dr.Richard Johnson who were involved in this work.


Interesting reading, apparently the body can make fructose from non fructose carbs if our insulin resistance is poor.

atb
Derek

Pleased it may have helped - there is a wealth of information available, some better than others of course, but I've got good respect for Zoe Harcombes work and the two Drs you mention.

All the best Jan

Now if anyone enjoys these two lower carb fruits raspberries, blackberries ... then you may enjoy this recipe idea. Each sundae works out at 8.3g carb per serving



INGREDIENTS:
Serves 4 - 5
500ml double cream
3 tbs cocoa powder
2 tbs stevia or sweetener of choice
1 cup raspberries
1 cup blackberries
shredded coconut flakes

INSTRUCTIONS:
Whip the cream, cocoa powder and stevia together until quite firm, but do not over whip the cream or it make split.
Choose wine glasses or tumblers and start to layer the chocolate cream alternately with the raspberries, blackberries and shredded coconut.
Continue until you have at least 4 layers.
Top the sundae off with more raspberries, blackberries and coconut flakes.

Recipe idea can be seen here
http://thelowcarbdiabetic.blogspot.co.uk/2015/12/raspberry-chocolate-low-carb-sundae.html

and originally here
http://www.ditchthecarbs.com/2014/04/17/raspberry-chocolate-low-carb-sundae/

Enjoy ...

All the best Jan