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Jul 20, 2017 16:48:31 GMT
Post by tod2 on Jul 20, 2017 16:48:31 GMT
Rikita - Cheery has medical knowledge - I don't except for the dozens of doctor visits and hospitalizations. I think FRUCTOSE - the sugar contained in fruit is only bad for you when you have put it through a juicer and discarred the essential FIBRE of the fruit. My son has always been overweight. When in his pre-teen years I weened him off coca-cola and replaced it with supposedly, fresh fruit juice. The dietician said I had done nothing to cut out sugar UNLESS I watered it down drastically.
Anyone have more information on fruit sugars?
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Jul 21, 2017 2:32:14 GMT
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Post by Kimby on Jul 21, 2017 2:32:14 GMT
The really bad fructose is "high fructose corn syrup" a sugar substitute used in soft drinks and processed foods. It doesn't shut off your appear at and makes you fat.
Plus, it just doesn't taste as good, which we discovered on a trip to Mexico, where Coke is still made with cane sugar. Now it's possible to get "Mexican Coke" some places here in the US.
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Jul 21, 2017 21:50:16 GMT
Post by amboseli on Jul 21, 2017 21:50:16 GMT
you are right about a balanced diet ... but of course every food contains calories, and i suppose it also varies for different types of fruit ... As a diabetic, I may have two portions of fruit daily. But ... bananas, grapes, cherries, mango, lychee and other tropical fruits only sporadically because they are (too) high in sugar (and carbs).
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Dec 5, 2021 21:27:12 GMT
Post by kerouac2 on Dec 5, 2021 21:27:12 GMT
At this time of year, clementines are definitely my favourite fruit, even though I am not a major fruit eater. But clementines seem so competely perfect to me -- the right size to eat two or three, super easy to peel; and the proper balance between sweet and acidic.
As I child, I consumed huge amounts of bananas, but that was understandable since we did not pay for them. My biological father was a locomotive engineer at the Chiquita banana terminal.
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Dec 6, 2021 16:11:50 GMT
Post by casimira on Dec 6, 2021 16:11:50 GMT
Here we have satsumas which I think are very similar to clementines. Also, tangerines. It's been a very good year for them. The ease in peeling off the skin make them very popular especially for children. No sticky mess involved.
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Dec 6, 2021 17:46:40 GMT
Post by kerouac2 on Dec 6, 2021 17:46:40 GMT
Yes, we had a satsuma bush when I was little. Until it froze one winter. I loved them.
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Dec 6, 2021 19:20:59 GMT
Post by htmb on Dec 6, 2021 19:20:59 GMT
My mother came from a family of citrus growers and my father began working in the business after my parents married. We eventually moved from town to the "country" and lived in the middle of forty acres of orange grove. My father was very proud of that particular grove because he had worked hard to buy the land and had planted each tree himself. The Valencia orange trees were all grafted onto a hardy sour root stock and the fruit was usually sold to a manufacturer that produced frozen orange juice concentrate, sold in large packs to institutions serving massive amounts of orange juice to large groups of people every day (restaurants hospitals, schools, prisons, etc). My dad loved to graft and taught me so I could help him in the tree nursery. And while I liked the taste of Valencia orange juice, I thought the fruit a pain to peel, even though I could just step outside the back door, and pick as many oranges as I wanted once they had ripened. However, there was one tree that I thought loads of fun. My dad had grafted three different kinds of fruit onto the stock so at any given time there might be tangerines, navel oranges, or grapefruit on the tree. I loved the tangerines the best because they were so easy to eat.
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Dec 6, 2021 19:31:10 GMT
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Post by mickthecactus on Dec 6, 2021 19:31:10 GMT
Great story! Thanks.
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Dec 6, 2021 23:20:15 GMT
Post by bixaorellana on Dec 6, 2021 23:20:15 GMT
Wonderful story, Htmb! Do you remember kumquats from growing up in Florida? My mother planted a row of them in front of our house in Albany, Georgia when I was a kid. My brother & I were fascinated by them. On a trip to Florida in that same time period, I was totally charmed to see little wooden crates full of "miniature oranges". We felt so smart knowing that they were really kumquats.
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Dec 7, 2021 0:33:21 GMT
Post by htmb on Dec 7, 2021 0:33:21 GMT
I do remember kumquats. We had some when we had a yard, and I still seem them growing around town. We certainly knew better, too.
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Dec 7, 2021 6:18:58 GMT
Post by onlyMark on Dec 7, 2021 6:18:58 GMT
Most places around Andalusia have orange trees on the street and around. Many tourists don't know they are not edible, yet try them anyway.
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Dec 7, 2021 6:49:44 GMT
Post by bjd on Dec 7, 2021 6:49:44 GMT
I love kumquats. I have tried several times to grow little trees but with no success. In Bayonne there is a huge kumquat bush in a garden. It breaks my heart to see it loaded with fruit which the owners do not pick.
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Dec 7, 2021 8:09:54 GMT
Post by kerouac2 on Dec 7, 2021 8:09:54 GMT
I was the only person in my family who ate kumquats. We had a tree in Mississippi and also in California (which came with the house -- my parents would never have planted it). Actually I didn't eat them all that often and of course shared them with the birds.
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Dec 29, 2023 21:09:51 GMT
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Post by mickthecactus on Dec 29, 2023 21:09:51 GMT
I really like to have grapes after a meal. They clean the pallet I find. But I’m slightly embarrassed about the air miles it takes to get them here. Tonight’s was all the way from Peru..,
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Dec 31, 2023 5:03:44 GMT
Post by kerouac2 on Dec 31, 2023 5:03:44 GMT
I scraped several passion fruits onto my vanilla ice cream last night. They probably came from either Brazil or Thailand.
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