[Reeses]

high-fructose corn syrup... Fresh peach, anyone?

A peach, minus the water, is 90 percent sugar. Half the sugar is sucrose (cane sugar), 1/4th glucose (blood sugar requiring no digestion), 1/4th fructose (an isomer of glucose). Nutritionally, it is similar to eating 2 fun size Snickers candy bars with a glass of water. I don't get where fruitarians come up with modern non-naturally occurring high-fructose fruit being healthy for you. If someone can explain this to me I’m all ears.

[SamAdams76]

The only fruits that I eat regularly are berries. Blueberries, strawberries, raspberries, blackberries. Once in a while, I might have a few grapes or a piece of melon or cantalope. But that's about it. I find most other fruits too sweet for my taste. And I definitely drink no fruit juice. I had a small glass of apple juice at breakfast over the summer and it was sickenly sweet. Never again.

[bluefish]

Heh heh.. I've always wondered why "Fruits and Vegetables" are lumped together in the various dietary dogma. They are two radically different things in my view, primarily because of the sugar issue with fruits. Mind you, there are some fruits that are lower in sugar and that contain enough fiber to be healthy. Apples (not apple juice) might be a good example.

Loved your peach info. You'd think people would know. Eat a peach and your hand afterwards feels like it had just been stuck in a vat of honey.

Snickers bars have peanuts in them. Would your comparison be more appropriate with something like, say.. Two Reeses Peanut Butter Cups (I trust the peanut butter isn't real). Heh.

[Paul_B]

One thing that peach has over Snickers is fiber, which slows the initial sugar digestion and aids in later deep-track digestion.