Fruits - good/bad?

What's everyone's opinion on fruit in terms of healthy/not? I know listening to your body is #1, but what do you guys think/curious

In general fruits are good but when your guts cannot digest them you have to be careful.

To me it's often quantity as well.

Try to cook and puree them. It's easier.

Also a food journal helps you to determine which fruit is ok on you. I cannot handle apples well or bananas. Took me some time to figure this out. I usually get cramps and gas from them.

Chrissy, how are you doing so far?

I really try to avoid fruits. I have heard bananas are good for you, especially those with the D, which I don't have anymore. I can actually eat almost anything but I really try to stay away from high fiber items and keep the fruits to a minimum.

uhh i miss fruit so badly!! back when i was a fruitarian, my record was 22 bananas in a day!! hence my name haha but that seemed normal to me at the time since everyone following the 30bananasaday diet was doing it. i could eat 3 cantaloupes in a sitting and be fine. i think over time that all the fiber definitely affected my colitis and now i can't even think of eating like that again.

i can eat maybe 1/2 a piece of fruit a day or some juice, but that's it.

I love fruits :)
Acidic fruits don't agree with me when I flare, but some of them like bananas and mangos are very soothing to my stomach :) I did a candida diet once, and it helped with my colitis, but for the first 3 months I was'nt allowed any fruit, I was so miserable!!!

fruit is essential is overhaul health. do some folks have some symptoms from certain fruits, sure, and do I blame them for avoiding them because of it, heck no. but you need to the nutrition certain fruits provide or you will not get the nutrients your body needs to live a long life, you can get the protein and fats you need from fish and chicken but not eat red meat but only in fruit do you get what your body needs from fruit. I eat a banana everyday for lunch as it is calming to my gut and it has some increidble nutrients. I also love strawberries, blueberries, mangos and fresh squeezed orange juice blended up in a smoothie along with some other ingredients in a great all natrual fruit smoothie, I never feel better than when I eat those things.

Fruits seem to help calm my gut, when I am not flaring. But like most of the others mentioned: seeds or lots of fiber from oranges and such cause issues not only with the UC but diverticulosis. Canned mandarin oranges do not irritate but do contain sugar.

Breakfast being the important meal it is supposed to be is so difficult for me personally that traditional breakfast foods have to be avoided. I found that apples or sauce, bananas with strawberries (if not flaring but not often due to seeds), and occasionally fresh pineapple with yogurt sits well.

Interestingly about the Paleo diet that Crissy mentioned and INSOFLA recommends, I want to follow it desperately; however, yogurt seems to be soothing to me and restores the balance like probiotics. Meats do not do as well--especially red meat or pork. Too much dairy (milk or ice cream) sends me into a nightmare. Also, I recently realized that steak is causing some flares, making the gut work too hard, I suppose.

Despite nightly enemas, Apriso, and Canasa (as needed), I am still flaring. Hated to, but had to start prednisone today. Four days in a week of 8-9 trips has me so weak, I cannot function! Gotta get a handle on this!!!!!!

I know diet doesn't cause but does exacerbate the symptoms. And, I know we are all different on what we can tolerate, but I wish I had just a set diet that works that I can live with. I tried Elaine Gottschall's book. I just could not stick to the diet. Just eating only fruits and veggies sounds good--leaving off the grains. But, I CRAVE sugar as I am pre-diabetic. Chicken or fish cooked right (no frying or grease) sits well most of the time for me. I am curious as to what others who've experienced this for years actually eat. I know what you avoid, but what is a typical daily meal plan that works for you?

Those that follow food combining principles would say the key with fruit is to eat them separately away from other foods as they can cause fermentation when eaten with other slower digesting foods.

Some have with issues withe the levels of different sugars in some fruit i.e some fruit have more fructose than glucose which is one of the factors that eliminates them on the Low FODMAPs diet.

Personally I love fruit but have avoided them a lot lately but that is only through dietary advice (SCD/GAPS) and not based on any personal bad experience. I'm eating ripe bananas but am planning on eating a bit more fruit again.

Post Edited (Jimbo NZ) : 8/20/2012 3:51:58 PM (GMT-6)

Sunny- I figured this out, I eat lamb, fish, chicken thighs, bison. I was eating chicken breast which has no fat practically so it was not working to keep me full. And I pour love oil on meat.

Typical day: meat in am with veggies, olive oil, coconut oil.

Snack- banana, sunflower seed butter

Lunch- meat and olive oil, coconut oil, veggie

Snack- fruit, sunflower seed butter

Dinner- meat and olive oil, veggies.

It does I can check which I have I love my enzymes though. Yeah I love to see what other people do :) total trial and error! My struggle too is that I am a hairstylist and I LOVE it but I worry about absorbing the chemicals. And there is gluten in many of the products I touch all day long lol :/