We associate them rather with a diet snack, which, along with fruit, will help to take care of a beautiful figure. Unfortunately, fruits do not always support weight loss, and their excessive consumption can even cause obesity! Therefore, before you reach for an apple, tangerine or banana, check whether it is really worth it and in what quantities it is best to eat them.
A slimming diet is no joke. The more kilograms to lose, the less time, the greater motivation – the more we need to modify our eating habits and replace high-calorie products with “fit”. Many people recognize fruits as belonging to the “slimming” category in advance, but despite the vitamins, minerals, water, dietary fiber they contain, they also contain simple sugars.
Limit simple sugars. Be careful with the fruit!
The fruit is such a tasty and sweet alternative to fattening bars, chocolates and ice cream. Unfortunately, not always. The simple sugars present in their composition can cause weight gain and fluctuations in blood glucose levels. The daily intake for an adult should be 300 grams of fruit spread over 2 or 3 servings. Here is a list of the most caloric fruits, which on a diet it is better to reach only occasionally:
- Bananas – 150 kcal in one piece,
- Grapes – 400 kcal in ½ kg (the same amount has a packet of chips …),
- Coconut – 354 kcal in 100 grams,
- dates – 280 kcal in 100 grams,
- Avocado – 160 kcal in 100 grams,
- Fiji – 75 kcal in 100 grams.
You also need to be careful with dried fruit. The most caloric are raisins (100 grams is almost 300 kcal), as well as dried pears, pineapple and mango. Juices can also cause problems for our figure. Research shows that too much fructose “reprograms” our body to produce fat. Therefore, drinking a glass of juice with breakfast will not be the best idea – the body will start converting both the morning meal and the next one that we eat during the day into fat. In addition, too much sugar in the blood leads to the destruction of proteins that have been eaten earlier.
Therefore, although we should not completely give up fruit, it is not worth combining them with normal food, and you should certainly exclude pasteurized fruit juices from your diet. They are always sweetened with glucose-fructose syrup.
Fruits with the lowest fructose content that can be eaten on a slimming diet:
- plums,
- Strawberries,
- currants,
- papaya,
- Raspberries,
- Lemon,
- Oranges,
- Watermelon,
- grapefruit,
- Cantaloupe.