Fruit nutrition is high but remember to eat five is not

Unreliable fruit vitamin

Most of the fruits of the vitamin c content is not high, other vitamin content is even more limited.

A total of 13 vitamins, comes from a variety of foods. If you want to rely on fruit provides all the vitamins is very unwise.

For example, to meet the body's vitamin C recommendation 1, 5 kg required intake of Fuji Apple, this is absolutely impossible task.

Rich in vitamin C with fresh fruits, Kiwi fruits, Hawthorn, grapefruit, citrus, strawberries, and usually eat apples, pears, peaches and apricots, bananas, grapes and other fruit content of vitamin C is very low.

The mango is up with beta-carotene, citrus fruits, apricot, pineapple yellow fruit also contains small amounts of beta-carotene.

Unavailable fruit meal

The human body needs a total of nearly 50 kinds of nutrients to survive, especially the daily needs of 65 grams of fat, in order to maintain the tissues and organs of updates and fixes.

Fruit containing more than 85% moisture content, the protein content of less than 1%, almost without essential fatty acids, far from being able to meet the body's nutritional needs. Fruit can only be done in addition to delicious meals will not be able to eat more.

Unavailable fruit instead of vegetables

Fruit contains organic acids, and aromatic substances, in appetite and help the absorption of nutrients has an important role, and fruits without cooking, no nutritional losses.

But the fruit contains minerals and vitamins in much less than vegetable. If you do not eat vegetables, fruits and absolutely alone is not sufficient to provide adequate nutrients. The vitamin c content, the cheap Chinese cabbage, turnip than apples, pears, peaches and high 10 times. While the green pepper and cauliflower vitamin C content is Strawberry and Orange 2-3 times. Therefore, daily consumption 500 grams of vegetables is required.

Do not eat more fruit to lose weight

In fact, the fruit is not energy very low food.

Because it has a pleasant sweet taste, where the sugar content often reaches above 80%, and is easy to digest Monosaccharides and disaccharides. Although fruit weight calculation with low calories than rice, but because the fruit taste sweet people love does not address the estuary, it is easy to eat too much, so the intake of sugar are exceeded. Eating fruit to lose weight and not reliable.

Not superstitious luxury imported fruits

Many people think that expensive foreign fruit necessarily higher nutritional value, not necessarily.

Imported fruits during the journey they have already started occurring nutrients of degradation, freshness is not satisfactory. Also, due to the long distance transport is often not fully matured and other fruits are picked off by chemical preservatives, may affect the quality fruit. So, be sure to purchase foreign fruit eyes, see quality.

(Edit: Justin Lin, internships)