“If you believe the nutrition industry, every week produces some new superfood, often a fruit: blueberries, pomegranates, acai berries. The fact is that fruit consists of water, sugars (normally about 10%), some vitamin C, and some potassium (thought to be good for controlling blood pressure). And that's kind of it.”
I’ve always hated fruit (though I love vegetables) and feel like it’s a chore to eat. The mandarin oranges (I can’t call them clementines—is this an East Coast thing?) Granny Smiths and bananas I’ve been lugging to work the past few months have been killing me.
Fruit juice feels like a total waste of calories and smoothies seem like a joke. Melon is flat-out disgusting and the only food in the entire universe that I won’t eat (well, there’s malta, but that’s a beverage). Minus melon, I don’t mind tropical fruit every now and then, but that’s all. And maybe my problem is that I was raised on bland grocery store produce, though I doubt it. People are always raving about Honeycrisp apples, but to me an apple is an apple and they’re boring.
If I want sweets, I would rather eat real desserts (poached pears and baked apples will not cut it). Nature just doesn’t make candy; that’s as sad as calling graham crackers cookies.
Bad fruit image from Lunacy Beads
Ooo, I love articles like this! I do health counseling and I love to hand these articles out to shock clients ;) Thanks!
Posted by: ckc | January 30, 2008 at 06:22 PM
ckc: yeah, I just like studies that reinforce my own eating quirks. I'd cry if there was a report on the ills of Sichuan food (actually, there was one) but I love seeing things like the Biggest Loser couples shitting themselves when shown how much sugar they consume from soda drinking every year because I hate soda.
Posted by: Krista | February 02, 2008 at 12:09 AM