👇🏽Sugar in Fruits: Safe and Healthy?⁣ ⁣ Fruit Sugar Composition:⁣ ⁣ 1. Fructose: Naturally occurring sugar in fruits, 30-50% of total sugar content.⁣ 2. Glucose: Also present in fruits, 20-40% of total sugar content.⁣ 3. Sucrose: Some fruits contain small amounts of sucrose, a disaccharide composed of glucose and fructose.⁣ ⁣ Why Fruit Sugar is Considered Safe:⁣ ⁣ 1. Natural packaging: Fruits come with natural fibers, antioxidants, and water content, which slows down sugar absorption.⁣ 2. Low

If you compare the effects of a diet restricting fructose from both added sugars and fruits to one that restricts fructose only from added sugars, the diet that kept the fruit did better. People lost more weight even with the extra fruit than those whose diet restricted all fructose. Negative health effects of fructose were limited to industrial fructose, meaning table sugar and high fructose corn syrup. Mounting evidence suggests that, in large enough amounts, added fructose in the form of tabl