Fruit has sugar. Candy and soda have sugar. Why is eating a whole mango healthier than eating a candy bar?
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57 grams worth of Snickers bar has 280 calories, which comes almost entirely from 29 grams of sugar and then a bunch of fat. It has essentially 0 nutrients.
57 grams worth of mango has around 35 calories, which mostly comes from 7 grams of sugar. It also has 5-20% of your daily amount of a dozen different nutrients.
The candy bar doesn’t just “have sugar”; it’s basically just a bar-shaped pile of pure sugar held in place by the cheapest fats they can find.
The fruit “has sugar”…and a lot less of it, and a lot of nutrients too.
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