Because the silly season happens smack bang in the middle of summer here in the Southern Hemisphere, the fresh fruit platter is a pretty common party staple.
Cue the age old question, can you eat fruit when you quit sugar? While yes, we do love a little fresh fruit, it’s important to consume mindfully when you’ve quit the sweet stuff. Especially when you’re confronted with another pile of watermelon at the family Christmas barbecue.
These are the fruits we opt for, the ones we keep for special occasions, and the best way to chow them down.
Berry delicious.
Berries are probably our favourite fruits. They’re relatively low in fructose (the liver-stressing sugar we’re really trying to quit) and full of antioxidants (which gives them their beautiful bright colours).
A handful of strawberries, raspberries, blueberries or blackberries is your first port of call.
Keen for kiwifruit.
Kiwifruit is also pretty low on the fructose-o-metre, so a few slices are a-okay. They’re also really high in vitamin C and K (so, no scurvy for you).
Other fruity favourites.
Some of the other common platter fruits like watermelon, mango, pineapple and grapes are a little higher in fructose, so we’d keep consumption of these ones to a minimum.
Here’s a handy guide so you can check how your favourite fruits stack up.
Fatten up.
Eating your fruit with a bit of fat helps to slow the fructose dump on the liver. It will also fill you up so you’re less likely to go too cray cray.
Fruit, nuts and cheese? Yes, please!
Just eat whole food.
At the end of the day, it’s really about listening to your body and making mindful decisions about what you indulge in these holidays.
So, if you’re choices are a few slices of watermelon or a hunk of store-bought Christmas pud smothered in caramel, just eat the whole food. Your body will thank you for it in 2017!
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