Why are fruits so high in Carbs?

Fruits generally contain a high amount of natural sugar- glucose and fructose, otherwise known as carbohydrates.

carbs are either sugar or starch. Bread has starch, fruit has sugar.

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Fruit is basically the food that the seedling/sprout survives on until it grows big enough to start making its own food.

Over the years many of these fruits have been selectively cultivated until the fruit produced is more than what the seed needs to grow.

Sugar

Sugar = simple carbohydrates.
Starch = complex carbohydrates.

Keep in mind that the sugar in fruit is typically more easily processed than refined sugar making it much healthier to eat. So don’t avoid fruits.

From a biological perspective, fruit is like a battery for plants – an energy storage device. Thus, they have lots of sugars. I don’t think a low/no carb diet is very healthy or logical.

The yummy fruit (with carbohydrates) is there to attract animals to disperse the seed. Animals eat it, travel a bit, defecate. Voila. The seed spouts wherever it has been dropped since most aren’t digested by animal digestive systems. In fact, some won’t every germinate at all unless they go through an animal’s digestive system. The new plant inside the seed has now been spread and plant life goes on.

I’m not aware that any fruit provides any energy or benefit for the seed other than dispersal. Within the seed, besides the embryo there is endosperm which provides all the nutrients the seed needs.

Also, countless generations of agriculture has preferred the sweeter fruits.

Thanks all…I forgot that sugars are considered carbs. There is no way i am avoiding fruit cause I love it, so eat on…!

It’s one of the more simpler results of photosynthesis (besides producing cellulose).

Still, carbs from fruit are better than carbs from bread because on average it takes longer before you feel hungry again.

Eat whole fruits, avoid the processed crap. They load that stuff up with more sugar than it’s worth. Even when it says “no sugar added” that almost always just means that they’ve concentrated it.

I only eat whole fruit from the produce section…I might buy the chopped uo pineapple but it’s the fresh pineapple, not canned