The Truth About Fruit
Fruit is not fundamentally bad for us, but the amount we are eating can be detrimental. In The Sweet Poison Quite Plan, the author David Gillespie recommends that adults eat only two pieces of fruit a day and children only one. Fruit containing higher amounts of fibre and lower quantities of fructose such as kiwis, apples, grapefruit, blackberries, pears, strawberries, blueberries, raspberries and lemons are the best choices, while bananas, watermelon, pineapple, mangoes, papayas and grapes should be avoided.
None of this matters when it comes to fruit juice, as it’s all bad. When fruit is juiced, any positives are squeezed out all that’s left is sugar, water and a bit of vitamin C. Dries fruit is even worse and often contains nearly 70% sugar.
The author of Great Brain, Dr David Perlmutter says: “Our caveman ancestors did eat fruit, but not every day of the year. A medium-sized apple contains 44 calories of sugar in a fibre- rich blend thanks to the pectin. If you juice several apples and concentrate the liquid down, you get a blast of 85 sugar calories.”
If you want to think about it in terms of grams (as a benchmark a 330ml can of Coke has 35g of sugar), the average glass of orange juice has 21g of sugar, apple juice 28g, cranberry juice 37g and grape juice 38g, and many bottles fruit smoothies contain between 20g and 35g of sugar. All of which says we shouldn't be starting our mornings or hydrating our kids with fruit juice.
However, the Plenish Cleanse founder, Kara Rosen, reassures us that not all juice is evil. “the new juice taking the market by storm is cold-pressed vegetable juice, particularly green juices, made up of ingredients such as cucumber, spinach, kale, broccoli and lettuce and low – glycemic index
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