Some of those who watch diets carefully avoid some fruits saying they have too much sugar in them. Recent research, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, however indicates that fruit, while it has sugar in it, can be eaten as much as you like. They say that fruit has no adverse health effects and that the sugar in fruit is absorbed more slowly as a result of the fruit’s fibre. There is thus not any surge in blood sugar and of course fruit helps us from overeating by making us feel fuller.

The one caution that they did raise is that you lose some of the benefits of the fruit when you turn it into juice. They say some of the metabolic benefits of the fibre are lost when the fruit is pulverised and the physical structure changes. Of course, there is also the important advantage that when you eat, you eat more slowly than simply drinking down a whole glass of juice, and so they do favour, where possible, that you rather eat the fruit than juice it.