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There is plenty of good stuff in fruits other than sugar. They are a great source of fiber and vitamin C, for example. Your overall point is worth reiterating, which is that fruits are not automatically "healthy", and may contain large amounts of calories and sugar.



No, there is not. Apart from some berries (particularly raspberry and blueberry) most of it is junk food that makes you fat, rises triglyceride and damages the liver.

Fruit is not a great source of vitamin C for the reason I mentioned. Red paprika is way better source for example, then any fruit. You better take a supplement too, liposomal variant if possible and/or film tablets.

You can get fiber from other, way more healthy foods, like quinoa seeds. Many people also remove fibers by juicing fruit, which is particularly unhealthy.


>Red paprika is way better source for example, then any fruit.

Not to be pedantic, but red paprika is literally dried and powdered fruit (at least under the botanical definition of fruit).


It's a language thing.

I was thinking about red peppers. It's also technically a fruit, but at least in my country nobody considers peppers a fruit but vegtable.

On wikipedia they say AKA paprika:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_pepper

> In some languages, the term paprika, which has its roots in the word for pepper, is used for both the spice and the fruit


You basically undermined your entire argument here.


Edge cases.


The fact that other foods can supplement or replace fruits is obvious. Most humans, however, are not surviving on quinoa and vitamin supplements. Therefore, your extreme position on fruits is misguided, because the average person is better off having a glass of orange juice than Coke, despite the calories being similar.


The person asked about eating fruit, not about replacing it with Coke.

> is better off having a glass of orange juice than Coke

Even this is debatable... I wouldn't be surprised if the net effect to the body is almost the same


You were the one comparing apples to Coke. You also wrote this clearly incorrect statement: "There is almost nothing in fruit worth taking". When I pointed out that this is not the case, you misdirected the conversation to saying that other foods are equally or more nutritious than fruits.


OK, phrase could be better.

Almost nothing worth taking that you can't get elsewhere, without all the junk. It's clearly true even for junk drinks - they usually have some low amounts of junk form of vitamins in them, but that is typically not why you drink them and you can find much better forms in higher dosages elsewhere, without the junk.


I think you're wasting your time, arguing with a zealot.




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