Can you eat to much fruit?

[tjcolvin2]

I'm not a vegetairan, but lately I have been having this addictive taste for fruit. I eat probably about 6 or 7 banannas a day, 3 0r 4 oranges, and lots of strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, blackberries, pineapple, and several other fruits in one day. Is there any way that to much fruit can be bad for you?

[Tesseract]

Yes. Fruit is loaded with sugar and very low in protein. What ELSE are you eating in a day?

[tjcolvin2]

I eat lots of other stuff. Like I said, I am not a veg, so I do eat meat and get lots of protein and eat lots from the other food groups as well. I am just wondering if eating to much fruit will harm me. I know that the sugar in fruit is simple sugars, can that be to harmful for me to eat to much? What else could go wrong by eating to much fruit?

[bluegrrrl79]

No offense but if you're not vegetarian, why did you join a vegetarian board? Are you planning on cutting down your meat consumption?

[munkiipoo]

I'm not very sure about nutrition but too much of anything can be bad for you. I wouldn't say it's risking your health but giving yourself a little control with your food would be something to consider.

[Elena99]

Whoa, what's your grocery bill like?

[tearhsong2]

Whoa, what's your grocery bill like?

:lol: That was what I was going to ask. Fruit isn't cheap around here, so if I ate that much fruit a day, I'd be homeless or living with family to support my fruit habit fairly quickly.

Eating that much fruit everyday would in the short-term give me diarrhea, and would keep me from eating healthy amounts of other food groups. Fruit is full of vitamins, water, and fiber, but you're definitely missing out on complex carbs, some vitamins, a lot of minerals, healthy fats, and protein.

[Quincy]

yeah, be careful about the sugar intake.

I was eating about 4-5 combined bananas and apples per day, to go along with 2 or 3 glasses of orange and/or cranberry juice. After I cut back a bit and tried to drink mainly water, I was feeling more energized and dropped the few extra pounds that I had gained.

(probably more energized from taking in more complex carbohydrates and not going crazy on the sugar - even though one might expect sugar totals that high to lead to extreme hyperactivity, lol)

[rawgirl]

I would say that you should keep fruit to no more than 15% of your dialy food intake. YOu can eat too much sugar, even if it's from fruit. Fruit is good for you, but not in huge quantities. People who are sick with cancer, candida, parasites, diabetes, hypoglycemia, etc. actually should not eat fruit unitl they are better all kinds of sugar promote all kinds of disease. So I think you should eat fruit if you are healthy, but if you have a disease, you should not eat sugar until you are recovered. I say this based on observation and studies done at Hippocrates Health Institute, where I work.

[skarrlett]

Every once and a while I go on a fruit "binge". But unfortunately where I live, fruit is expensive at this time of year. When summer comes around I pretty much live off berries and melons. But when grapefruits cost 2 for $1.99 CDN it will slowly put a major dent in my budget,

[rabid_child]

I think it might upset your stomach... I doubt it will do any long term harm, however.

And now for the moderator part of my post.
In reference to the aforementioned TOS violation, if you have no intention of reducing your meat intake or becoming vegetarian, please find another bulletin board to frequent.

[butterfly_acid]

when I was in boot camp, I was exercising less than before I joined (I walked everywhere, to the mall, around the mall, about a total of 5-8 hours of walking per day)...in boot camp...I walked to the chow hall, sometimes to both chow halls (yes, somewhere between 3-6 very large meals per day)...the biggest issue I had was I was eating a lot of fruit, ungodly amounts, and so whenever I had to go to the bathroom, I couldn't run, so I'd have to walk as fast as I could to the barracks to use the bathroom.

Now, if I ate that way here in the real world, I would be broke. I ate more than you stated, a lot more...that was like one tray for one meal.

On to the sugar issues. I don't know if the sugar was good or bad.
I lost 20+ pounds, and I wasn't fat before I went to boot camp.

I did consume 1 svg. of cereal and 1 svg of bread in an entire day, as well as ate milk and cheese, and yogurt, all when available (and ice cream)...luxuries werent always there, though.

Regardless, if you are doing it psychologically to lose weight, it works, but only in amounts that your budget would not be able to handle. I think eating less than the gorging amount winds up taking it's time digesting and therefore, the effects are that you get those calories absorbed more easily.

I don't know that I would ever be able to pull that diet off ever again, nor that it's healthy. I looked like a stick, and people very often commented on ribs not being "in style" and I am talking not about edible ribs (no, that would be cannibalism ^_^)

Do I recommend that diet? No. Not on god's green earth. Is fruit healthy? Yes, and I wouldn't limit any amount of consumption. Just make sure you are getting enough of everything else ^_^ a cup of quinoa would be more than sufficient with each meal (which contains everything you need, fiber, complete protein, complex carbohydrates, gluten-free, hearty, filling, etc).

Fruits do have protein, but not much. Vegetables have protein too. Balancing the diet out would be very helpful. (beans, nuts, legumes, but again...quinoa is really the best option. It is kinda a miracle grain)...

As far as the meat thing is concerned, eating fruit will help the meat move through your body much quicker.

But, honestly...meat?!!! *sigh*

ETA-if you really are concerned, you should see a nutrition/dietary specialist. and I'm not one of those people, so I'm pretty useless, and my advice comes with the grain of salt! ^_^ maybe you are just on your way slowly to becoming a vegetarian :o

[veggiewriter]

My own $0.02: When I was having UTI symptoms last year but all cultures were coming back negative, my doctor told me to stop eating bananas every day for breakfast---turns out the high amount of potassium I'd been consuming every morning was irritating my bladder! Quit the bananas and my symptoms went away. So, in that way, too much of that fruit WAS bad for me personally. But everyone's different.

[butterfly_acid]

I get those symptoms if I eat too much of a single fruit..ie-munching on an entire watermelon all day... lol

[cherylhill]

Fruit is great! You can never eat enough fruit. I eat at least 20+ servings of fruit per day. The sugar in fruit is glucose which is what your body eventually turns all foods into. It is the only fuel your body can use. The fiber in fruit slows the uptake of the sugars so its not the same as say eating a candy bar and getting the sugar rush. You're craving it because your body must be needing the nutrients. Fruit's protein is a usuable protein and when it comes to nutrients its quality not quantity that counts. I'm too new to post weblinks but there are a ton of nutrition sites that will show you the amino acid profile of fruit and you'd be amazed.

Here's a great recipe:

Banana-Celery-Medjool Date Smoothie-
3 bananas
5 medjool dates
4 stalks of celery - leaves and all
2 scoops hemp protein powder
1 1/4 cup water (or ice)

Cut up celery and dates (remove pits), put in blender with water and hemp protein powder, grind, then add in bananas, blend until liquid, drink and enjoy!

The celery balances out the potassium in the bananas and enhances the mineral content of the smoothie.

Hemp protein's DNA structure almost identically resembles human protein DNA. It contains 19 amino acids and all 8 essential aminos and since it is plant based and alkaline, it is actually absorbed and utilized by the body whereas animal proteins are not. And humans actually do not need that much protein. Ideally protein should be about 10% of your diet. 10% fats- good fats like raw nuts/seeds/avocados, 80% carbs- good carbs like fruits and veggies.

[Tofu-N-Sprouts]

Yes. Fruit is loaded with sugar and very low in protein. What ELSE are you eating in a day?
It is, but fruit's actually really good for you, even in higher quantities...
There is 'natural sugar' in fruit, to be sure, but there is also a lot of fiber in fruit as well - that fiber slows the absorbtion, keeps your sugar levels from spiking (i.e."sugar rush") - not the same as eating refined sugar.
The fiber, vitamins and minerals and other nutrients are especially beneficial and make fruit a great choice, despite the bad hype from the low-carb camp... The protein in fruit is also very useable and there's probably more in fruit than we've traditionally thought.
Check out sites like Nutritiondata.com, they can give you an idea, and usually have more modern, accurate information on the nutrients/protein content in fruit.

[bluegrrrl79]

Fruit is great! You can never eat enough fruit. I eat at least 20+ servings of fruit per day. The sugar in fruit is glucose which is what your body eventually turns all foods into. It is the only fuel your body can use. The fiber in fruit slows the uptake of the sugars so its not the same as say eating a candy bar and getting the sugar rush. You're craving it because your body must be needing the nutrients. Fruit's protein is a usuable protein and when it comes to nutrients its quality not quantity that counts. I'm too new to post weblinks but there are a ton of nutrition sites that will show you the amino acid profile of fruit and you'd be amazed.

Wow dude 20+ servings of fruit per day?? That's crazy...I mean I love fruit but not THAT much!

[Seb_0810]

Yes, the sugar in fruit (fructose) can be bad in large quantities. If you really like fruit, try eating savory fruits such as tomatoes, cucumbers, eggplant, squash, pumpkin, peppers, avocados, etc. to avoid too much sugar. Fruit is healthy, but you need to eat different types of fruit. In fact, some people (fruitarians) make a healthy living entirely from fruit and nuts.