Fructose from a fruit, like say a cherry doesn't quite do the same thing as fructose from a factory. AKA, fill up you liver with fat.
Also fructo-oligo saccharides feed and grow your micro biome without giving you calories. No idea if that can be chemically made though and if that has the same effect as natural.
Having said that, different people react differently to the same food.
My reaction to fruit and my reaction to Sugar are nearly identical. I get the Sugar high, then the crash then the craving etc etc. Worse yet, I feel some if not most fruits are un-natural and almost like factory made.
Anyway, I am no expert, but hope you can google, find and post what you find.
Thanks.
Srinath.

Hello again,


I shun any processed sugars, white/brown/agar even processed stevia - altogether. I wouldn't feed any if them to even my animals.

The sugars I mainly use are:
🌈 fresh or dried fruit as my first preference.
🌈next I would opt for organic black strap molassas due to it's mineral rich content and less processing... But that's not suited to evey occasion
🌈next I would use RAW organic honey... Heated makes it exactly like White Sugar , and many unscrupulous apiaries actually feed their bees white Sugar to keep them pumping out honey - which hurts the bees!
🌈 as a last resort for baking I use coconut Sugar or rapadura which are both pretty much jaggery.
🌈on rare occasions I use maple Sugar (like twice ever for a "healthy" pavlova.... Lol.

I usually stock all bar the maple sugar, and we seem to use fruit, molassas, honey the most and use jaggery-type things for special occasions.

I usually tell my family fruit taken in order of water content before 12pm. (Ie Watermelon for breakfast, followed by next wettest fruit usually spaced 30-45 mins appart)
So fruit exclusively before lunch. This keeps the overnight detox going and cleanses the body.
After 12pm -3pm the main meal, and a light supper or nothing at all at sunset.

This is a little bit too carb heavy for myself, but the rest of my family thrive on such a diet, which mimics the diet of the Hunzas, who lived well into their hundreds and gave birth into 70's.
I prefer a Water Fast till 12, light meal then fast next day, then water till 12 light meal (rinse and repeat)

Honey on fruit? Perhaps occasionally. Sounds like you need to add good quantities of coconut oil only meals to re-sensitise you insulin receptors. That sounds a bit sweet. You might need to recalibrate and tone it down. Sugar of any type works like a drug: the more you get you body used to the more you need to get the rush, soon not even a sweet juicy apple will taste sweet, but it will tast bland, akin to drug users who need more drugs after their high isn't as high as it used to be.

I say do fruit, by all means, but lower the GI the fructose by eating it either with fat (coconut oil) or include fat during the day. Otherwise your blood sugar will smash through the roof, then hit rock bottom very soon leaving you to feel awful, and desperate for more sweet things. Don't ride the sweetener roller coaster, slow it down with healthy fat.

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I forgot to add, I used to use stevial drops, but they are heavily processed and quite nasty. I have tried natural organic stevia powder, which tastes very green like grass or hemp powder, but so far I'm the only one who can tolerate it. I guess I like that it has zero carbs, zero cals and can maintain you in ketosis even it you have it.

Just touching up on fruits.

Some are better than others and actually stabilise blood sugar, such as pawpaw, pineapple, kiwi, sour cherries, blue berries, sour green apples, lemon, and many others which have a lower Sugar content.

The ones to have less of or monitor and can play around with blood Sugar are;
Banana, watermelon, dates (which many people use instead if Sugar in baking and dishes)
Can't think right now of more lol. Oh and oranges, nectarines, some pears.

I do use fruit in cooking, of I have a curry that needs to be sweeter, I would avoid heating any sweetener, as it essentially processes and concentrates it making it enter bloodstream faster - but I would use any fruit, saltanas, date, mango, young coconut, even banana in my curry! It comes out exceptional - very Fiji.