WHY SHOULD HAVE FRESH FRUITS RATHER THEN DRY FRUITS

Most of the  dried fruits  have double, and sometimes even triple, the amount of sugar content then the fresh fruit, say wellness experts and nutritionists, And sugar, in case you hadn’t heard, is pretty much the devil.

Here are five facts you need to know about dried fruit—and why you should probably just eat an apple rather then handful of dry fruits .

The sugar in fruit makes you fat fast. It’s called fructose and it can create all kinds of havoc on your health,  as excess fructose gets quickly converted by the liver into VLDL, a form of cholesterol that’s high in triglycerides, which leads to fat storage. It’s also the type of sugar that creates insulin resistance, heart disease, obesity, and more.

Dried fruit has way more sugar than fresh fruit. Most people should limit their daily fruit intake to 30g of carbs [of sugar] per day, which is about one banana, one apple, or two cups of coffee  And that’s a lot less than what’s in the typical serving of dried fruit. One cup of fresh cranberries contains 4g of sugar and one cup of dried cranberries contains a whopping 70g.

Your brain doesn’t know how to say no to dried fruit. It’s easy to eat a ton of dried fruit, because fructose doesn’t signal to your brain when you’re full. “It doesn’t suppress ghrelin or stimulate leptin after you eat,” (Ghrelin makes you hungry and leptin stops hunger.)” Now it might make sense why you still feel hungry even when you have take sufficient amount of dry fruits.

It contributes to toxicity.  When the body breaks down fructose [in dried fruit or in any source], it produces a lot more waste products and toxins, and increases blood pressure more so than other carbs,

You’re better off eating candy than dried fruit, if you’re looking at the sugar content. Okay, we’re NOT saying go eat a candy bar, but you should know that one bag of M&Ms or a Milky Way bar has 30g of sugar, which is much  less then a cup of dried figs.

The takeaway: Eat your fruit fresh, and save the dried stuff for special occasions.