Hi everybody this is Monica Reinagel the nutrition diva here with your quick and

dirty tips for eating well and feeling fabulous now despite which you may have read on the internet,

fructose is not harmful or toxic when consumed in moderation,

especially when it comes from whole foods like fruit.

However, there is a limit to how much fructose your body can process at one time.

Could fructose overload be causing your mysterious digestive distress?

Today I have some tips on how to diagnose and deal with

fructose malabsorption. A friend of mine once sent me a huge crate of

gorgeous just-picked cherries from his family's orchard in

Washington State as a gift. They were so good and it was such a rare treat

that I couldn't stop eating them and then I ended up with a righteous stomach

egg. Most likely the discomfort I experienced was caused by overloading my system with

too much fructose, one of the naturally occurring sugars in fruit.

Most of us can only absorb between 25 and 50 grams of fructose at a sitting,

a bit more or less depending on what other sugars are present in the meal.

Now unless you're being immoderate as I was that night, you're unlikely to consume that much at a meal.

Some people, however, have a much lower threshold.

For those with something called fructose malabsorption,

even small amounts of fructose,

such as the amount in a single serving of fresh fruit can cause problems.

Frructose that isn't absorbed remains in the large intestine

and then the bacteria that normally reside there will start to digest it.

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