Is it possible to eat too many fruits

Fruit may be something you eat, but your body processes it a whole lot like it would a glass of water. Fresh cherries are 82 percent water, and even a banana is 75 percent water," says registered dietitian Amy Gorin, RDN.

Especially if you wake up in the morning feel thirsty, fruit is a really good addition to whatever breakfast your making for yourself—whether it's oatmeal with banana, Greek yogurt with blueberries, or protein pancakes with strawberries. A late study, which looked at the gut health of 11, participants, found that the healthiest folks eat more than 30 different types of plants each week. A diverse diet, researchers found, equals a diverse helping of vitamins and minerals—and fruit can be an instrumental part of that.

For example, says Jaramillo: "Some nutrients we might find in fruit include vitamin C, potassium, Vitamin K, manganese, and vitamin E. All of fruit's nutrients are essential in optimal functions of body systems. Important electrolytes such as potassium are also essential in renal and cardiovascular function. Long story short: It's possible to go overboard on any food, fruit included. As long as you're sticking with the USDA-recommended two cups per day, though, you should not experience the possible stomach discomfort, bloating, or diarrhea that can come from, for example, eating half a watermelon again, been there.

Fruit is a delicious and vitamin-rich addition to any meal you want to make a bit more satiating and sweet. So serve up your two cups in everything from oatmeal to salad, and count the berries, citrus, and more a win for your entire body. Your official excuse to add "OOD" ahem, out of doors to your cal. Become an Insider. Enter Email Address. Facebook Pinterest Twitter Youtube Instagram.

M y first word was "apple," which provides a nice anecdote for when awkward silences crop up in conversations. And, beyond that, might explain why I'm kind of a fiend for the entire fruit kingdom.

Answer provided by Terese Scollard, M. No wonder cold grapes taste so good! Should you cut back on fruit? Probably — especially if you want to lose weight and eat a balanced diet. All of the food groups are important. If you go overboard on one kind of food — even one as terrific as fruit — you'll miss out on the valuable properties of other healthy foods. You are eating twice the recommended amount of fruit and less than half the recommended amount of vegetables.

But a few changes will round out your overall diet and help you drop those pounds more easily. Add up your calories. I really don't like fixating on calories, because an overly strong focus on numbers can blur the big picture, which is to eat a varied diet of healthy foods and not to eat more than your body needs. However, counting your fruit calories will help you see what a big chunk of your diet the fruit makes up.

So let's do some math. A good general formula for losing one pound a week is to create a calorie daily deficit through a combination of exercise and diet. The actual magic number of calories for losing weight depends on your age, height and activity level. Read more about counting calories. Let's say that you weigh pounds, that you typically eat 2, calories per day, and that your goal is to get to that calorie deficit by burning calories through exercise and cutting calories from your diet each day.

That makes 1, calories your daily limit for what you can consume. Fruit is about 80— calories per serving. A serving is one cup of fresh fruit or a half cup of canned fruit. I know! When I started the heart health diet I simply assumed that fruits in quantity were great — but guess what healthy proteins and a whole lotta leafy and green food did?

I lost 23 pounds in 2 months, exercise every day with at least a two mile walk and am starting with a trainer this week at the gym. Thanks for the information. Right on for me. The first day yesterday I sat on the couch ate lots of grapes than later had an apple and then a protein bar for lunch.

Avocado in a flour tortilla. Well my IBS has flare up with diarreah, bloaded and weakness. Again thanks for the information and education. When should I start eating fruit again?

Among the things you mentioned, wheat, avocado, and apples are problematic. Wheat is high in fructans, avocados in moderation are fine moderate polyol. Apples are high in polyols, so I avoid them. Oh, Lily. I AM eating too much fruit. As often as I want. And guess what? My weight loss has stalled out … interesting. But can I be sad for a minute?

I heart fruit! Interesting observation about your weight loss, Beth! I am very think all my life. Ear only fruit veggies nuts seeds. I love fruit do not like beg make myself eatveg. Only protein I get is in greens and nuts and seeds. Been veg for 42 years. Have a lot of candida problems. Fruit makes me nervous but happy.

I was told by a physic to not eat any fruit or grains. She said I can not digest them. Blood sugar drops from many allergies. If I go off fruit I loose too much weight and am tired. Any suggestions. I put fruit with nuts or seed or avacado..

Thanks for your help. Ann crystal. Hell everybody my name is Inna and am frutoholic and nuttoholic Last night scoffed g of blueberries and g of strawberries and on the top of that u of Brasil nuts All this morning am not leaving my toilet I know its time to stop but or cut dawn but I CA NOT MANAGE THAT little snack packs of nuts and fruit is very expensive so i buy big ones and eat it at once am 55 by the way …… thank you for reading.

Inna — go easy on the Brasil nuts. Too much selenium cannot be a good thing, no more than a deficiency would be. I used to be addicted to fruit! And it felt like blasphemy when I first learned they were not that good for my health. People enjoy the damn fruits, it grows from the earth. You need to use more reasoning in you reply.

Fruit is the most healing food on the planet. I live in total euphoria. There is no way I could feel any better. Lower the fats and keep introducing fruit particularly berries and melons.

I totally agree with you anonymous. Thank you so much for this fantastic article! I was one of those people — who ate crazy amounts of fruits because I thought it was healthy to do so. Again, thank you for the great read! I love how you listened to your body when it gave you the signs that you were having too much fruit. Your solution is rationale, healthy, and most of all, feels good for your body.

Bravo, Sara! Love it! I learned something today. I have to share this with my mama and husband. I am a fruit fanatic. However, it sounds like moderation is best with everything you intake. Definitely noted. Thanks for sharing Lily. This was super informative! I did cut out any kind of juice in the morning finally because of the sugar content, so that really rings true with me.

Glad you found some pearls in here, Trista! Wow i realy lean something today,befor i eat tomuch of fruit but now realizing tomuch of fruit is a problem to me i will change. Thanks for the insight! Right Lauren?!

Yeah the fruit-only diets can be a metabolism nightmare. All that sugar leads to high blood sugar and high insulin, both of which signal the body NOT to burn fat. I highly suggest folks consider their adjusting their breakfast when attempting to lose weight or stabilize their energy. Hi Lilly. No way. Fruit is good for you. No sensitivities. I digest it really well.

No problems at all after eating fruit. I ran to the bathroom, climbed on the scale and… there it was: no weight loss whatsoever. After a whole week of heroically and completely avoiding all kinds of processed foods. No more pasta for me. So long cookies. Goodbye bread. A whole week of meat, fruits and vegetables. And some yogurt too.

But still… no weight loss. Ok Lilly. You got me there. I hear you loud and clear. I like them a lot better. I recommend doing some research on the glycemic index of foods. Candy bars have far more calories than fruit does, but some fruits like bananas and watermelons and potatoes on the veggie side will spike your blood sugar and insulin much faster and higher than chocolate will.

This is also why berries are recommended. Their fiber content reduces their glycemic index lower than most friuits. Peaches are awesome, but variety and moderation are better. I hope that helps!

Possibly also the salt in the meat causing water weight retention. Oh and I forgot to add that fats and carbs together?? Carbs for the win for energy and sustainable weight. Eating fruit compared to junk food helps a lot but I think to take it to the next level we need to keep the portions in check, like you have advised. I eat way too much fruit! My gut is constantly doing somersaults recently, it is NOT happy with me!

On an average day at the moment I eat an apple a pretty sizeable one , 6 or 7 strawberries, 2 bananas pretty large ones, I love my bananas! Hurray, I may have just found the answer. Same here and loving serves a day….

Hmmm will have to ease up. I too am a weight watcher. Fruit is currently 0 points so i load my shopping cart each week and use it as filler. Way too much. I also worry about too much fructose and overworking my pancreas. My weight has plateaued as well. Gonna try to cut down fruit and use more veggies and protein as filler.

But after 2 yrs my weight is reducing from 78 kilos to 52 with the help of my daily exercise routine. I run 4 kilometers 5 times a week. I too have been eating way too much fruit. I thought it was okay until I started listening to a friend who is dieting- she isnt eating any fruit at all she spoke about the carbs. I have had a bloated stomach and have not lost any weight even though I have stopped drinking wine as well.

On an average day I will eat one pound of blueberries yes I said one pound or one pint of blueberries, one pint of rasberries, some grapes, some watermelon and not sure what else. I am going to cut down to 2 pieces of fruit a day and try for more veggies. Food for thought! HI, I actually just started a whole foods diet and have been using fruit as a crutch the past 2 days to help me with my hunger and cravings between meals. I have been way bloated, gassy, and always pooping. I thought this was just a transition phase from processed foods to whole foods.

Avocadoes and tomatoes are technically fruit but you listed them as alternatives. Any other fruits that should be counted as a vegetable? Also what about the fiber content? Is a fig or a prune a better option then say an apple? For the purpose of this article, I am referring to the usual fruit — those that are sweet and therefore naturally high in sugar.

Yes, fiber content helps lower the glycemic impact, which is one reason berries are so fantastic. I have just started drinking veg and fruit filled smoothies instead of porridge for breakfast and wondered why I put on weight!!!

Now I know. Similar to most of the posts. I have piled on the pounds. After reading the information, I would definitely say the information is not cruely written, I am so glad I found it, I now have to reduce my fruit intake, it is the only explanation I have for the way I feel.

Gassy and bloated constantly. I am not going to remove my beloved blueberries completely just reduce the amount I eat in the morning to a handful and not g a day yeah I know probably was too much. It was very comforting to read your advice as I have definitely been consuming too much fruit, thinking it was the best way to lose weight.

Can also relate to the feeling of bloating so I will revise my diet and put in more greens and monitor the results. Hi thank u for this , I did actually ask someone the other day if u can overdose on fruit!

Iv recently had blood test back and have a foliate deficiency. My doctor said it was due to my diet. Iv started eating fruit and a lot of it. I use one of those bullet things and a normal smoothie consists of banana, apple, pear, kiwi, strawberrys , natural yoghurt , almond milk and porridge oats. Is this too much fruit? I have been getting pains in my stomach. No adverse side effects from the study were found and people lost weight during the study.

The only negative side effect was some bloating from eating some of the same fruits such as only apples to meet the requirements of the number of servings. While my 3 older ones eat the most of fruit with no problem I always give them as a dessert after meals , I have my fussy youngest 3 year old who refuses to eat anything apart apples and bananas.

So in order to be able to give him wider variety of fruit I started to make smoothies in the morning and evening after meals. The whole family was treated as reccomended but while I was researching about natural treatments along with traditional Mebendazole which is not good for any of us I came across to smothie with papayas, pineapples, coconuts, coconut oil and papaya seeds. I have been since making that smoothie almost every day for whole family every morning.

I also give them anti-flamatory smothies with carrot, pinapple, turmeric, ginger etc or berry smoothies after evening meals. I can see what are you trying to say and might explain all the bloating and gases but I grew up myself eating all day fruit as my Dad grew them in our huge back garden and never harmed me in any way.

Well that sure answers my current question. I have really cleaned up my diet after struggling for many years with food cravings. I gave up all processed foods, junk foods, snacks, lollies and chocolates. I eat plenty of vegetables nuts whole grains eggs chicken fish small amounts of dairy beef and drink plenty of water. And now I am absolutely bloated and always in pain….. Owww and I thought this was better than the junk. Hmmm maybe I will try fruits and see if it helps.

Thank you so much! Althought , I knew that information it nice reminder.. I have hit a weight plateau this summer. I wish I would have read this article in June and not in August. I probably would have been more successful with my weight loss. I am definitely guilty of everything written and was confused why I stopped seeing results. Thanks for the advice. My weight have not dropped at all.

I make fruit smoothie everyday for breakfast. I have an apple and orange for my work snack. And veggies for both snacks and suppers. Will reply back in a month if weight finally dropps. I am so pleased I have stumbled across your article. The weight is mostly around his belly and has bowel issues as well.

I will now cut right back on fruit and hopefully that will make a difference to both his weight and bowel problems. Thank you so much for this article! I have been eating WAY too much fruit! My diet was so bad and I have been eating healthily for the past 10 months but in the last two months my fruit intake has gone sky high. I was thinking it was healthy snacking but the fact my stomach has started bloating lately gave me cause for concern and an internet search led me here.

I would think nothing of eating 6 apricots, 4 peaches and a couple of apples in a day…. I now realise i was craving the sugar in fruit and eating more made me eat more!!

I will be much more mindful and hopefully the bloating and binge eating of fruit will stop and my weight loss will start again. Well, it seems I identify with all of those signs, unfortunately.

I went on vacation with family for 8 days, and most of what we did was drive around and look at sites. Very little physical activity and NO working out. And we ate candy while we drove around. We ate three square meals a day, which I never do, so I ate more than I usually do.

But the only fruit I really had was prunes and orange juice. So I see a message in there……. Just when you thought it was safe to dip into the fruit bowl. But seriously very interesting reading thanks. I had to comment because your article resonated so clearly with my experience. I would describe myself as a fruit junkie 6 servings easily in a day. I have been dealing with signicant issues of bloating and other unpleasantness.

I had recently eliminated gluten to evaluate if that was the culprit but the problem persists. Your article makes me think I cannot tolerate fructose in large quantities. I will immediately make this change and look forward to feeling better. I still wonder about the high fructose content in most processed foods? Is it the same? Given the reliance on these factory foods, I would think more people would be experiencing reactions? Please write your articles in a slightly less ridiculous manner.

Also, you suggest only 2 small portions of fruit a day while nearly all respected health organization, WHO included, suggest more. I guess they have much more authority for me. Hey this has been a very interesting blog and I am very grateful for your potential guidance. Today I am eliminating all fruit from my diet for 2 weeks to see what happens. I was diagnosed with many food intolerances in October and have been avoiding foods like dairy, gluten wheat, avocado, nuts, soya potatoes and many more.

However I have also been formally diagnosed with coeliac disease as confirmed through a gastroscopy and biopsy. But due to the inflammation and poor gut I have put on weight 10kgs from May to Aug.

I have now stayed around the same but since adjusting my diet, of eliminating everything, eating only fresh cooked foods no processed foods including gluten free products and breads I have not lost a lb! But as you say this does not curb my hunger!!!! I have reintroduced milk to add to tea only as of yesterday and this seem ok so I am hoping I could so introduce eggs etc into my diet.

I really hope that fruit has been my problem and I can lose some of this excess weight I have gained which makes me feel dreadful! Good luck on your journey, Georgina. You may want to read this article about the top 10 elimination diet mistakes. I relate to eating too much fruit. Prob having about 6 serves a day. Thanks for your information. One year ago I was diagnosed with C-diff and it was horrible. My digestive system is still not normal. Before that I had a lactose problem now they tell me it may get worse.

I was also told that I now have IBS. So I have been trying to eat lighter and smaller meals. I have been eating a lot of fruit and I have a very bloated stomach by the end of the day. I told my husband maybe I am eating too much fruit.

I have four servings a day. I have even almost eliminated gluten too. It has been very challenging and painful. I have discomfort almost every day in my digestive system. I am going to cut back on the fruit to see if the bloated stomach goes away.

Thank you for the information. I gave up refined sugar and grains last year and then decided this year ie two weeks ago that I would only eat one portion of fruit a day for January. I used to eat about 6, plus 8 or so veggies. Definitely going back to my usual for January meals tomorrow — measuring my 80g of berries and not having any other fruits.

I do NOT want to feel like this again! I wondered if I was because a few months ago I radically changed my lifestyle eating habits and whilst I feel as though my middle is a bit slimmer, I thought I would have lost more weight by now. So I googled it and saw your article. I eat fruit for breakfast every morning with nuts, thing is though I eat a lot!

Then when I come home in the evening I usually eat another pieces of fruit…. I am definately going to reduce my fruit intake…thank you. And, I have digestive issues anyway and have seemed more bloated. So, I think you answered my questions. After two to three weeks binging on loads of fruit,, i felt more bloated than ever and kept putting on weight i decided the only thing i was doing differently was eating lots of fruit and that had to be the reason.

I only just realised that fruit has loads of natural sugars that could not have been doing me any favours. Everything you said proved true for me. The more fruit i ate the more i wanted to eat. It was tho you wrote the article just for me.

Thank you and as of this morning, no more fruit for a while for me!!! I have been eating a big bowl of fruit salad for breakfast every day for the last 3 months, thinking it would be good for my health and help me to lose weight. I stumbled across an article about fructose intolerance and malabsorption and recognised the symptoms immediately.

Paid a visit to my GP as the pain felt like period pain coming from my ovary went through the menopause 12 years ago but she said I was probably suffering from IBS. So I will definately be laying off fruit for a while until things return to normal!! I eat a minimum of 3 servings of fruit a day! I will eat an apple at break and lunch, sometimes a banana with breakfast, and then grapes at lunch, and an apple after dinner! I have eaten a lot more fruit the last few months, about 4 a day and I have noticed I have put on weight on my lower stomach area.

As well I have had bad stomach pains too and bloating. Will this be permanent? I just found this and everything I can agree with. I am ,in fact, eating too much fruit. Wish me luck! Whoops, I have been eating about 3 portions a day. I think I will stick to 2. I would much rather eat a bowl of grapes than a packet of potato chips though. But I hear you on the vegetables… I think I should probably focus on getting more of that in my eating habits.

This might be a bit off topic but I personally am not trying to lose weight but rather I gym everyday and I eat fruit strictly for lunch. The reason being is its easy to throw some fruit into a lunchbox and cheap where I stay.

Its healthy and Im allergic to nuts so something like muesli and yogurt wont work for me. Now, if i get to gym everyday surely the sugar isnt an issue as it wont be in my system long enough to be converted into and stored as carbs and should be used up when I work out right?

Basically I want to know if this is a good idea or if im countering my workout due to the sugar intake?

But with every lb. I got addicted to fruit smoothies and was having about 2 a day. Powder After about 2 weeks ,I awoke feeling like I needed to throw up and my stomach felt out of sorts for about a week. This is reason I looked up this topic. I found this article on a google search. I am a recent smoothie convert and was concerned about my new Ultra High dose of fruits per day. I eat a lot fruit thinking it would help me lose weight. Sometimes I eat so much blueberries that my excrement smells like blueberries am I eating too many blueberries?

I am currently in severe stomach distress so I consulted my favorite physician — Google — for a diagnosis. Last night, I mindlessly snacked on a rather large portion 2 cups, perhaps of leftover fruit salad that I had made two days prior.

I had trouble falling asleep 4 hours of tossing and turning and awoke just an hour later with bloating, gas pain and colic, bowel noises, nausea and diarrhea. An hour later, I am full on vomitting with runny bloody diarrhea. Well, not only did I have WAAAY TOO much fruit, but I also learned that I could have easily misprepared the fruit salad by not washing the rind of the cantaloupe and using the same knife to cut the rind off as I did to cut it up, without so much as washing in between.

Google taught me that this alone could introduce bacteria including the dreaded e-Coli! I am particularly sensitive to e-Coli having been terribly affected and hospitalized by it six years ago.

I nearly lost my life then when the bacteria attacked my pancreas and threw me into a sudden onset diabetic coma. I was warned then that the littlest bit of e-Coli could cause an e-Coli storm in my intestines — and I thought that meant I must avoid undercooked red meats, not my beloved fruits!

Sorry to hear that, Ellen. I recently decided to keep track of the fruit I eat and discovered I can eat over g in 1 day! Definitely need to reign in my portion control. The amount of sugar I must be getting is crazy. Hopefully I will finally start to loose some weight as well. I eat way too much fruit.

Probably about 7 portions per day. Will this be the cause of my current skin issues? I make smoothie with one Apple, fresh aloe Vera, cucumber and about 60 grms of blueberry, I hope am not taking too high fructose levels doing that, I have been doing this for more than six months now, and being a athematic I must say my immunity has never been better, Though I think I have felt bloating issue many number of times, I recently have started taking two slices of full grain breads along with it, to give my smoothie some solidity, thanks for giving me idea of combining it with nuts, Would you like to suggest some tweek in my breakfast scheme?

It will be highly appreciable. Sure thing. Fruit is an amazing source of nutrition and there are NO adverse health effects of adding fruit to your diet and, actually, not really an adverse effects of adding fruit to your diet in regards to your weight. Also, I have maintained my weight after losing 20 pounds with eating pretty much unlimited fruit when I am hungry. I only eat until I feel satisfied…but some days I eat as many as 4- 6 bananas… and that is just bananas.

Side note: Fruit actually helps regulate blood sugar for diabetics when added to meals despite that fact it has god forbid natural fructose the devil, right?! This is a very unfair way to characterise the article. You are not considering relativity. Certainly the spike in blood sugar from an ice cream cone is not the same that of a banana — but the banana will cause a spike nonetheless.

It stands to reason that if the banana is a stand-out on the glycemic index for a person higher than the rest of her diet , that spike will have a greater effect than on someone who eats poorly. Also, nowhere in the article does the author suggest starving oneself to be thin. It seems to me the author is trying to help people, not sabatoge anyone. Having read the studies you refer to, a very small amount of fructose in a meal results in lower blood sugars if it replaces an isocaloric amount of glucose.

However, if you just eat less glucose instead the effect is likely to be superior; and fructose in these small amounts is also supplied by carrot, beetroot, parsnip, sweet potato, and so on — there is nothing special about fruit. I cannot!! I can tolerate some berries after a gym workout but otherwise get heartburn, bloating and fatigue. Now please stop being a bully.. She clearly did not say that fruit is bad! I laid off the fruit for a couple of days and I was good. Well last night I had 2 fresh pears and now my stomach is cutting up again.

I want to continue to have the fresh fruit and now I know what to eat and what not to eat. I believe I am fructose intolerant as well so this article was very helpful. I never thought about eating too much fruit before reading this article. I constantly have smoothies with TONS of fruit. Thank you for this article as it was really eye opening! Hmmm I am thin but now wondering if all my fruits are keeping my belly fat?? I eat healthy but love my sugar and I am a bit outside the normal sugar range which is Thank you so very much!!!!!

Great article! Any thoughts? There age. How much they eat or drink or get enough in a day. I mmyself have health iissues. No one is really saying stay away from Apples red or green. Stay away from bananas. All I here are lies. And people contradicting there stories. From fitness trainers to movie stars. People have a basket full of everything. Like I was stating…. I health problems.