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Dear Fructose Apologists: F U
Look, I like peaches and all, and I like apples and all. But they’re guilty pleasures. They just are.
Both are baseball-sized sugar bombs. But every time I tell someone that they’re unhealthy, the usual response is something along the lines of: Well, sure they’re sugary, but the sugar is fructose!
But this is circular logic at its worst. There’s no good reason to think fructose is all that healthy, except for the fact that it’s in fruit and people believe that fruit is healthy, so ergo they conclude that fructose is healthy. See that?
Look, I’m not saying fructose in fruit is the most horrible thing in the world — and it may be better than something with sucrose or glucose maybe — but it’s sugar. And an apple is a lot closer to a cookie than a piece of celery.
If there’s on defense of fruit, it’s not the kind of sugar, it’s the fact that fruit typically has a lot of water and other stuff that’s not the sugar. That’s why dried fruit basically is candy, because so much of the non-sugar stuff is gone.
So please, fructose apologists, back the fuck up.
