Fruit has sugar. Candy and soda have sugar. Why is eating a whole mango healthier than eating a candy bar?
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The average soda has the same amount of calories as 1.5 apples. The average chocolate bar has the same amount of calories as 3 apples. Ask yourself what is easier to eat – a single chocolate bar or 3 apples?
The main health benefit that people derive from eating fruit is that fruit is mostly water and undigestible fiber. On a per calorie basis, eating fruit is just as bad for you as eating candy. But it takes much longer and is much more filling to eat 1 calorie of fruit than 1 calorie of candy.
That obviously doesn’t help you if you are eating large amounts of fruit. Say, for example, that instead of eating a chocolate bar you stick 3 apples and some ice into a blender and then drink the resulting smoothie. If you’re drinking that smoothie as a snack, rather than as a replacement for a meal, then what you’re doing is basically the same as eating the chocolate bar.
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