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will fruits cause a sugar crash?


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i just had a sugar hangover yesterday because i had a massive sugar binge, and it was like an alcohol hangover, and i slept the whole day. im back to my regular diet, and i want to know if fruits could cause my blood sugar to spike and crash?

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Most likely yes but only if you had a massive amount of it.

Its never happened to me before but im betting you can have any type of attack on binging on anytype of food.

I'm a big fruit fan and have never experienced that.

I don't understand. Why wouldn't it cause a sugar crash? Especially something like a banana or pineapple. Those have some of the highest sugar concentrations for fruit..

Never heard of a sugar crash.  Maybe you had something else.  Any before bedtime pig out makes me feel like trash the following day.  I don't think "sugar" has anything to do it, imo.  Their are alot of "health food" myths about "refined sugar", like "sugar makes one hyper" but it doesn't hold up to real science, though.

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I usually eat 6 pieces of fruit in like one sitting (including higher sugar one's) and never "crashed"...which I used to when I had binge eating disorder and ate like swiss roles and like a bag of jelly beans and all that garbage in large quantities.....not saying it couldn't though, def. a lot of sugar in them....

I don't understand. How can you not get a sugar crash from eating a serving or two of a very sugary fruit? And I thought I heard somewhere that the fructose present in fruit can actually cause you to store more fat.

If you've had such an extreme reaction after eating fruit - fatigue, 'hungover' -  then you should probably consult your doctor.  You're assuming that it's a blood-sugar issue (which it may well be but it's rather acute) but it could be that you've got some other medical problem entirely.  Anaemia is a big cause of nausea, fatigue and headaches, for example.

Plus the sugar in fruit is mainly fructose which is directed to the liver and doesn't actually effect blood sugar levels. Fruit generally doesn't have a lot of sucrose in it and the natural fiber in fruit slows down digestion (insulin response time from baseline) as well. As far as fructose storing more fat, that would be in the case where someone is consuming mega calories a day and the glycogen in their muscle and liver is totally full constantly, and they have what could be referred to as insulin resistance.

100g of banana = 90ish calories 

100g of chocolate = 400+

 

lol

no

 

how about not worrying about fruit's sugar content.

unless you're diabetic.

 

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