Fruit has sugar. Candy and soda have sugar. Why is eating a whole mango healthier than eating a candy bar?
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165g of mango – roughly one whole mango – has 23g of sugar. A 2 oz Snickers bar (57g) contains 29g of sugar. So a whole mango actually contains less sugar than a candy bar does, even though the mango is much larger.
The mango also has fiber and nutrients that the candy bar does not, and its sugars are released in a way that is less disruptive to your body chemistry.
That being said: fruits *aren’t* particularly healthy. They’re just less unhealthy than candy is.
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