Nutrition of fruit??

Deacon UK · 08-16-2007, 05:12 PM

I eat alot of fruit throughout the day
Just wondering what friut is best for complex carbs,
I can only think of Bananas really, raisens??
Stuff i can take to work too

**Freak** · 08-16-2007, 05:27 PM

Fruits are by definition simple carbohydrates. Bananas gi is around 51. I know for sure it is below the 55 cut off and is considered a low gi carb.

Fruits = fructose

monosaccharides: glucose, fructose, galactose (gfg)
disaccharides: maltose, sucrose, lactose (msl)
polysaccharides: glycogen, starch, fiber (gsf)

firecrakjack · 08-16-2007, 06:25 PM

nice breakdown! consume ur fruits in the mornings or after workouts with a protein shake...

i never heard of anyone getting fat from eating too much fruit. it will inhibit your body's ability to become shredded!

USCfb11 · 08-16-2007, 09:59 PM

correct me if im wrong here but, fruit are simple carbs in that fructose is a simple carb, however fructose cant be directly absorbed by the body and has to be converted into glucose, which more or less makes it a slower digesting carb.....i think thats right?

go here for nutrition facts: NutritionData.com NutritionData's Nutrition Facts Calorie Counter

**Freak** · 08-16-2007, 10:14 PM

Right in a way. Fructose when taken by itself is usually malabsorbed but when taken with another carb it is absorbed fine. Fructose however is not broken down to glucose. Fructose tranverses the cells of the small intestine by facilitated diffusion. Fructose will raise your blood sugar as will any carb but I do not like to recommend it for post workout for this reason and the fact that it does not fill glycogen/liver stores as well as glucose (which uses active transport) thus is much more optimal.

USCfb11 · 08-16-2007, 10:40 PM

thats right! went over it in a bio course but i couldnt remember the process exactly but knew that fructose was a little different

**Freak** · 08-17-2007, 12:36 AM

Good memory. It's hard if you don't think about that stuff a lot after you read it you usually just forget it. When you start getting into the GLUT5 (glucose transporter 5) stuff that is where Layne comes in. I have not taken biochemistry but am working my way toward it.

If Layne can find the time maybe he can take a picture of some of his biochem books (the thickness). I was talkin with a pharmacology professor who teaches biochem and saw 2 volumes of one book and they were the thickest damn things I have EVER seen. It is NUTS!

Deacon UK · 08-17-2007, 08:37 AM

You've lost me!! too much, too much my brain is hurting!!
i will read again later i might be able to understand more

firecrakjack · 08-17-2007, 09:25 AM

good to know fruit can't be eaten post w/o... guess thats why i wasn't getting bigger!! lol. it did help for me to cut my fat % down when eaten post w/o.