Get fat on fruit?

Recon

I was just wondering if you would put on weight by eating loads of fruit? It might seem like a stupid question to some of you but just soemthing I thought of.

amazingemmet

nigh on impossible

g'em

you can put on weight by eating too much of virtually anything. But fruit is, generally speaking, low in calories, and all are packed full of vitamins and minerals. Berries (blueberries, raspberries, strawberries etc) are considered 'superfoods' because of their antioxidant, heart-protecting, vit c rich, cholesterol-lowering properties. Bananas are great sources of magnesium and carbs after a workout. A medium kiwi contains more Vit C than a large orange, oranges tehmselves are packed with fibre... the list goes on.

So unless you eat an orchard of fruit a day, you'll be fine!! To be really strict, don't eat fruit too late in the evening, it will cause an insulin spike and encourage storage of glucose as adipose (fat) tissue as opposed to being used in the liver.

justsomebloke

ye fruit would be the least of your worries, trust me on this as i generally have around 8-9 pieces of fruit a day (Hi my name is JSB and i'm a fruit addict). i do quite a bit of exercise though.
Some people even say that apples and other fruit can aid weight loss as is take more energy to fully digest them then there actually is in them. truthfully i don't agree but sure others would.

g'em

jsb wrote:

Some people even say that apples and other fruit can aid weight loss as is take more energy to fully digest them then there actually is in them.

yeah, apples form a staple in the negative calories diet, which claims that eating a medium apple (around 100 calories) requires more energy to digest than it contains. But the same diet also involves eating celery 17 billion times a day. No thanks!!!

TerrorFirmer

I've recently started eating loads of bananas....three a day at least. One of the rare "good" things I've become addicted to!

t-ha

g'em wrote:

yeah, apples form a staple in the negative calories diet, which claims that eating a medium apple (around 100 calories) requires more energy to digest than it contains. But the same diet also involves eating celery 17 billion times a day. No thanks!!!

It's also a myth, unfortunately. Some fruits (bananas, strawberries & most berries actually, & grapes) are higher GI than others. They're very healthy foods, and you should eat them - but obviously they contain calories and so should be taken into account when you're adding up how much you eat in a day. The fruits I mentioned above go great in a smoothie or shake for when you finish exercising.

I'm not aware of anyone who has eaten so much fruit that they became fat just due to their fruit habit, but in theory you could do it if you worked hard enough at it...

DamoKen

speaking of fruit, I buy a lot of frozen fruit, strawberries, raspberries etc as it's just so much cheaper than buying them fresh. There's no added ingredients, it's just berries frozen straight after picking. So I was just wondering, do you get the same amount of nutrional benefits as you would eating them fresh? I use them in smoothies by the way, get a nice slush puppy effect

Lothaar

I believe snap-frozen berries are more nutrious than 'fresh' berries bought in a shop.

DamoKen

Lothaar wrote:

I believe snap-frozen berries are more nutrious than 'fresh' berries bought in a shop.

really? how's that work?

just saw the '' around fresh, think I see where you're coming from. So snap frozen would be frozen direct from picking sealing in all the nutrients whereas 'fresh' berries lose nutrients right up until they're bought and eaten?

g'em

DamoKen wrote:

just saw the '' around fresh, think I see where you're coming from. So snap frozen would be frozen direct from picking sealing in all the nutrients whereas 'fresh' berries lose nutrients right up until they're bought and eaten?

that's the gist of it alright. plus a lot of the 'fresh' fruit that appears on our supermarket shelves has been sprayed and modified for a longer shelf-life. oh and frozen berries in smoothies are absolutely de-lish

Recon

Thanks for all the replies, really helpful.

Thomas_S_Hunterson

AFAIK, avocado contains the highest level of nutrients and fat of any fruit or vegetable, so provided you don't go overboard on the guacamole, i don't think you'll be putting much weight on
Incidentally, cucumber contains the lowest level of nutrients and fat, because it's practically just water