Health Benefits & Drawbacks of Fruit Consumption

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Fruit Q&A
Posted by RB (Somewhere in Europe) on 03/31/2024 85 posts
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I am asking this question A) because I love high-fructose fruits, and B) because I have been limiting my intake of fruits ever since the day, about 4 years ago, I came across an article on www.mercola.com, where Dr.Mercola stated that 1) Fructose is unhealthy, 2) Limit your overall fructose intake to 25 grams/day, and 3) this 25 gram limit should include no more than 15 grams/day of natural fructose (NF).

Then yesterday I came across a scientific article from 2017, see Nutrients 9(8):872. doi: 10.3390/nu9080872, or https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/9/8/872, where a Bahadoran and their co-workers say they did not observe any significant association between NF and the development of CVD events, or changes of cardiometabolic risk factors.

Then I also came across ANOTHER scientific article from 2021, see Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition, November, 2021, or view https://doi.org/10.1080/10408398.2021.2000361, where a Kazemi and their co-workers say the relationship between fruit intake and all-cause mortality was assessed by 28 cohort studies with 108,402ball-cause mortality events among 1,626,395 participants... and the pooled analysis indicated that the highest compared to the lowest category of fruit intake was associated with an 11% lower risk of all-cause mortality.

Now, based on these 3 scientific articles, I wonder who is right.

(A) Dr.Mercola who wants us to minimize our fruit intake; so that we eat very little or no high-fructose fruits.

Or

(B) Bahadoran and their co-workers who seem to imply that we can eat as much (or as little) fruit as we want, as fruits will not make any real difference in our health.

Or

(C) Kazemi and their co-workers who in effect tell us to eat as much fruit as we want, and the more fruit the better, because fruit intake is associated with an 11% lower risk of all-cause mortality.