In addition fruits are not available year round, rather than during a brief window when the fruit naturally ripens. I suspect that this seasonal access, before winter, may explain our tendency to binge on sugars.
The bottom line is that it is almost all “added sugar”. It is a fallacy to treat sugar in fruit as being realistically “natural”.
Good point; I wasn’t trying to say that the level of sugar that’s in the fruit already doesn’t count, and the problem is only the sugar you add. Instead, I’m saying that you generally want to keep your sugar consumption down, and that’s a lot easier if you’re not adding large amounts of it to your fruit.
It is worth pointing out that most fruits have been bred for vastly higher sugar content than the original progenitors. See https://www.sciencealert.com/fruits-vegetables-before-domestication-photos-genetically-modified-food-natural
In addition fruits are not available year round, rather than during a brief window when the fruit naturally ripens. I suspect that this seasonal access, before winter, may explain our tendency to binge on sugars.
The bottom line is that it is almost all “added sugar”. It is a fallacy to treat sugar in fruit as being realistically “natural”.
Good point; I wasn’t trying to say that the level of sugar that’s in the fruit already doesn’t count, and the problem is only the sugar you add. Instead, I’m saying that you generally want to keep your sugar consumption down, and that’s a lot easier if you’re not adding large amounts of it to your fruit.
I looked at the sugar levels, and they’re pretty different:
100g raspberry jam: 46g sugar
100g raspberries: 5g sugar