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But you cannot compare todays fruits to those that our bodies have evolved on. Over the last couple of thousand years we have selectively most (if not all) of them for higher sugar contents.

That is not to say that a diet should not contain fruits, it probably should and fruits are most definetly more nutritious than candy, but its not that black and white.



You are right about cultivated fruits, but the distance in sugar content between them and candy remains very high.

Most cultivated fruits have a sugar content of around 10%, while only a few have a sugar content slightly above 15%, e.g. grapes and (raw) figs.

Only the dried fruits have a sugar content similar to chocolate and candy, i.e. starting from around 60% to much more.

So dried fruits should be avoided, but fresh or defrosted fruits up to a few hundred grams per day should be OK (when no other sweets are eaten).


True, but still on a whole other level than candy. A snickers bar or coke hurts my teeth it is so sweet and a bag of gummies churns my gut. I feel fine after eating an apple. Fruits honestly don’t even seem that sweet unless you’re just eating those genetic modified grapes and new apples. Many (most?) fruits are quite tart. Maybe it’s my equatorial bias speaking and I eat a wider range of fruits than the average person, but I just don’t see fruits I enjoy as particularly sweet.




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