All Fruits Are Not Equal
Eating enough fruit is absolutely vital to your success on a raw food diet. But does this mean any fruit will fit the bill?
Check out today’s video to find out…
Over to You
What’s the most amount of fruit you’ve ever eaten in one sitting? I once ate 20 bananas for a meal and it took me over an hour!
Let me know in the comments below! 
Go raw and be fit,
Swayze
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24 comments
I’m a diabetic, and I’m doing the 80.10.10 and I find my blood sugar stays balanced if I keep my sugar content less than 50 grams per meal. So I just eat more often, like 5-6 smaller meals per day. I no longer need insulin, and I’ve lost 47 pounds, since starting in May…
However, my fat intake is frequently over 10%… I like my avocados…
Karen Reply:
August 8th, 2012 at 7:42 AM
Chuck I read your reply and had to add my ten cents worth to your comment.
If you are Type 2 diabetic you MUST concern yourself with your fat intake keeping it BELOW 10% from raw fruits and vegies.
It has been proven time and again by many that it is the FAT not the fruit sugar that jacks up blood glucose. My experience being Type 2 myself (non-medicated) proves this to be valid.
heidi Reply:
August 8th, 2012 at 12:25 PM
you are correct karen
As far as I know I’m not officially diagnosable as diabetic (though I like to point out that everyone’s diabetic to some degree), but I don’t even eat 20 grams of carbohydrate per day. 50 grams in a single meal, for a diagnosed “diabetic”, is insane. Have you read Dr. Bernstein’s Diabetes Solution?
“I like my avocados”Avocado causes instant, temporary, Type1 diabetes: beyondveg. com/billings-t/fruit-milk/fruit-milk-1f. shtml”Avocados are the richest known natural source of the seven-carbon sugar D-manno-heptulose [Simon and Kracier 1996; Otaga et al. 1972]. This sugar possesses the physiological ability to cause inhibition of insulin secretion in humans, thereby producing “instant diabetes” [Simon and Kracier 1996]. [...] diabetics should consume avocado cautiously [Bergh 1992].”
heidi Reply:
August 8th, 2012 at 12:27 PM
helpful information, thanks
I appreciate your concern for my health and sanity. I’m a vegan, I don’t eat meat. I became a diabetic when I was a meat eater. So basically I’m not interested in any “solution” that involves eating animals. And I eat avocados maybe once a week, and from my own personal data, it does not effect my BS levels whatsoever. My diet solution is working well for me, both in my blood sugar levels and in my weight loss, but you are free to do what works for you. Thanks…
“I became a diabetic when I was a meat eater.”Maybe you weren’t eating only “meat”.
I was an insulin dependent diabetic for 2 years, and this January, I went vegan, that means I ONLY stopped eating animal products. Within one month, I no longer needed insulin. So for you to say that eating animal products has nothing to do with diabetes is not accurate…
What exactly were you eating when you were, what you call, “a meat eater”.
good advice, thank you:)x
Swayze cool video. Thank!
are u going to the woodstock fruitfest?
Yep.
I love your videos. You are so helpful!
Swayze, thanks for another great video. Fruit is NOT to be feared and is what we desire the most from babies to adults. We have been programmed and brain washed into non-thinking robots and then overloaded with chemicals that make the matter worse. We end up being followers of the grim reaper to our graves. One of the most rediculous beliefs we have been fed is that fruit causes blood sugar spikes. You have covered this beautifully well in previous vids. Thank you! It is the FAT, even RAW fat from fruits and vegies that needs to be cautiously watched and tracked. Ever since tracking my food on my raw organic vegan lifestyle (100%!) high-carb/low-fat of course!, my blood sugar is amazingly stable.
heidi Reply:
August 8th, 2012 at 12:31 PM
you got it all right karen
I love getting a dose of knowledge from Swayze! And I love that the affordable and easy to find banana is featured often! Hooray for the underdog getting the spotlight! Go banana go!
Thanks, Swayze
Great video, as always.
It really helps when you eat more mono meals of fruit, which I have been doing lately in the summer, as I get lots at the farmers market. I find that I know when I am full and had enough calories. For example eating 8 large white peaches that I blended into a smoothie. The only fruit I do not eat is bananas because they don’t agree with me, so I make sure to get enough calories from other fruit. I know when the fall comes and it is persimmon season, I have eaten 25 of them for a meal – LOVE THEM!
Namaste!
Chef Mindy
Thank you again Swayze for a great video. I have gone from eating almost zero fruit to now eating a diet 50% fruit, hope I can steadily climb from that and give up the wheat products..
Cool! I can’t wait to meet you there!
Itsy
It’s not only very hard to digest a whole meal of fruits, calorywise.It’s also impossibly expensive eating like this for me.
I had similar thoughts and doubts too, until I tried it. Slowly by slowly, doing this right – ordering boxes of fruits from wholesalers instead of buying 20 bananas plus some other fruits everyday day, they deliver fruits to our home (from our calls) instead of us going out makes it much easier.
Things that ripening too fast, I put them in fridgeConsider ripe bananas and ripe mangoes are softest and easiest for us to digest, how hard can it be? Calories wise? Banana are dirt cheap
Cron-o-meter all the way until you know how much you need to sustain a healthy lifestyle. I was having a hard time counting before I figured that out now its a breeze.