He's speaking of the actual molecule of fructose. Fructose is handled in much the same way as alcohol, which is why both can cause fatty liver disease. They both have to be handled by the liver in order to be processed at all. And in a way they are similar in that the dose makes a great deal of difference. A little alcohol is fine. A lot of alcohol all the time is very bad.
So in regards to fruit, the fructose is fructose regardless. However the fructose in fruit is bound up in fiber, so the fructose is released slowly over a longer duration and thus you aren't dosed with a great deal all at once. Also because it is bound up in fiber, it reduces the the amount you eat. For instance you'll eat one apple. You can easily DRINK six. Plus, fruit contains lots of good vitamins, etc.
So overall the answer is to eat the fruit. Now, it's probably best not to be the 20 bananas a day guy (who actually is a guy on youtube), but as far as most people go. Yes, eat the fruit. However, avoid the fruit juice. Juice is divorced from most of the fiber and you'll end up drinking far, far, far more fructose than you'd consume in actual fruit.
Sucrose on the other hand to be digested will be slit into fructose and glucose, so table sugar also has fructose in it. So it matters how much table sugar you eat.
And high fructose corn syrup is all fructose which makes it all fructose. A steady diet of that isn't good either.
But fruit... it's mostly a good thing. But the fructose aspect isn't the good part of it (nutritionally speaking).
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He's speaking of the actual molecule of fructose. Fructose is handled in much the same way as alcohol, which is why both can cause fatty liver disease. They both have to be handled by the liver in order to be processed at all. And in a way they are similar in that the dose makes a great deal of difference. A little alcohol is fine. A lot of alcohol all the time is very bad.
So in regards to fruit, the fructose is fructose regardless. However the fructose in fruit is bound up in fiber, so the fructose is released slowly over a longer duration and thus you aren't dosed with a great deal all at once. Also because it is bound up in fiber, it reduces the the amount you eat. For instance you'll eat one apple. You can easily DRINK six. Plus, fruit contains lots of good vitamins, etc.
So overall the answer is to eat the fruit. Now, it's probably best not to be the 20 bananas a day guy (who actually is a guy on youtube), but as far as most people go. Yes, eat the fruit. However, avoid the fruit juice. Juice is divorced from most of the fiber and you'll end up drinking far, far, far more fructose than you'd consume in actual fruit.
Sucrose on the other hand to be digested will be slit into fructose and glucose, so table sugar also has fructose in it. So it matters how much table sugar you eat.
And high fructose corn syrup is all fructose which makes it all fructose. A steady diet of that isn't good either.
But fruit... it's mostly a good thing. But the fructose aspect isn't the good part of it (nutritionally speaking).