#224 Sugar in Fruit with Dr Rupy and Sakina Okoko
The Doctor's Kitchen Podcast
Dr Rupy Aujla
4.8 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 29 November 2023
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
A common question I get is whether the sugar in fruit could be as dangerous and toxic as the sugar we find in canned drinks, sweets and other sources of added sugars found mostly in processed foods.
And sugar has been a hot topic of discussion in the past few years particularly as people become more aware of the importance of regulating blood sugar levels and avoiding large & frequent spikes.
In addition, we hear regularly from health organisations and experts that we should eat less sugar because of its deleterious effects on the body. But we’re also told we should eat more fruit, which naturally contains sugar. So is sugar in fruit bad or is there more to it?
Today we talk about
- The science behind the sweetness: why plants produce sugars, the types of sugars and amounts found in different fruit
- How sugar in fruit is handled by the body
- Whether fructose is better than glucose
- Some tips to enjoy fruit while being aware of blood glucose levels
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| 0:00.0 | Doctors Kitchen. |
| 0:03.0 | Recipes Health Lifestyle |
| 0:08.0 | Welcome to the Doctors Kitchen podcast. |
| 0:10.0 | The show about food, lifestyle, medicine and how to improve your health today. |
| 0:18.4 | I'm Dr. Rupi, your host. I'm a medical doctor, I study nutrition and I'm a firm believer in the power of food and lifestyle as medicine. |
| 0:32.0 | Join me and my expert guests where we discuss the multiple determinants of what |
| 0:36.6 | allows you to lead your best life. A common question I get is whether sugar in fruit could be as dangerous and toxic as the sugar we find in canned drinks, sweets and other sources |
| 0:57.7 | of added sugars mostly found in processed foods. And sugar has been a hot topic of discussion over the past few years |
| 1:04.8 | particularly as people become more aware of the importance of regulating blood sugar levels |
| 1:10.9 | and avoiding large and frequent spikes. In addition, we hear regularly |
| 1:16.2 | from health organizations and experts that we should eat less sugar because it is |
| 1:20.8 | the literious effects on the body, but we're also told that we have to eat more fruit, which naturally contains sugar. |
| 1:28.0 | So is sugar and fruit bad or is there more to this complicated situation? |
| 1:34.3 | And that's what we're here to do today. |
| 1:36.0 | Science writer and researcher |
| 1:38.2 | Sakina Coco joins me on the podcast today |
| 1:40.9 | as we talk about the science behind sweetness, why plants even produce |
| 1:45.1 | sugars and the different types of sugars and the amounts found in your favorite fruits, |
| 1:50.0 | plus how sugar is handled by the body and specifically sugar from fruit and |
| 1:55.8 | where the fructoseose is better than glucose plus some tips to enjoy your |
| 2:00.8 | favorite fruit whatever that fruit might be. |
| 2:03.4 | Remember you can watch this podcast on YouTube and subscribe and hit the notification |
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