Slow down on the dried fruit

Ajima — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 21:47:42 +0000

I’m going to have to slow down on the store bought dried fruit…namely mango and banana chips. What did I see when checking Yahoo today…The worst ‘healthy’ foods.

Good article. It said…

Dried Fruit
175 calories
45 g sugars

Eat this instead!
Fresh fruit, like an apple or a peach
70 calories
15 g sugars

OK, so dried fruit won’t totally derail a day of good eating (unless you down the whole bag of banana chips), but it’s far from being a harmless snack. First, because the dehydrating process sucks most of the volume from the fruit, you can eat cups of the stuff, and 600 calories later, still not feel any fuller. More troubling, though, is the fact that Sun-Maid and Ocean Spray add sugar to the fruit, making Craisins closer to candy than Mother Nature’s original intention. The choice is clear: Stick to the original, straight from the tree.

LOL…straight from the tree. Sounds like a fruit gangster rap group. Any hooo….I’ll slow down on the dried fruit. Sneaky sugar…darn you. (it’s not like I didn’t know…lol)

dried fruit – Urban Raw Food

Slow down on the dried fruit