How much fruit do you eat?

Hate fruit - might have the odd red grape or raspberry, but that’s about it. Friends drool over a fresh fruit salad and I just think
‘Yuck!’ Vegetables? Now you’re talking!

Bananas, grapes and mango but not all in one go. I hate apples

I never liked avocados much until I baked the halves, skin on pip removed, on a bed of dal with an egg broken into each pip-depression and with grated cheese sprinkled on top.

I find this is good for my innards. Other goodies are carrots, turnips, fresh beetroot, including stalks and leaves (which I cook by a German marinated red cabbage recipe; check out website of Baking Hermann if interested), roasted sweetcorn and all the cabbage family.

Fruit-wise it's mainly dried dates, dried cranberries, apples (made into cake), and bananas (in date and banana cake). I have a piece of cake with some plain Greek yogurt after work each day.

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I never liked avocados much until I baked the halves, skin on pip removed, on a bed of dal with an egg broken into each pip-depression and with grated cheese sprinkled on top.

I find this is good for my innards. Other goodies are carrots, turnips, fresh beetroot, including stalks and leaves (which I cook by a German marinated red cabbage recipe; check out website of Baking Hermann if interested), roasted sweetcorn and all the cabbage family.

Fruit-wise it's mainly dried dates, dried cranberries, apples (made into cake), and bananas (in date and banana cake). I have a piece of cake with some plain Greek yogurt after work each day.

Yum to the avocado recipe and fresh beetroot in German marinated red cabbage. Thanks.

LR, I only marinate the beet leaves and stalks. Cook the whole beets separately and then rub the skin off, cut into segments/chunks and add to the rest when simmering 😋😋

I walk to the grocer’s for my daily walk and buy fresh, a banana, two apples and an avocado to eat as snacks throughout the day.. If a buy more I’ll eat it because I have no control. The vegetables I eat are frozen because I have found it is more economical and more variety for one but I don’t eat peas.

A lot less and more carefully than I used to, in answer to the OP. If you have gut issues, I suggest you sort them out with a dietician.

Such problems can have knock-on effects. Fermentable sugars are a real problem for large numbers who suffer from a gut that cannot digest them. (Imagine the natural sugars in the fruit you have eaten being ones you cannot digest. They would now be fermenting away in your stomach.) You can't guess which sugars will affect you and which ones will affect the next person; self-diagnosis may lead to other problems.

Why do people think the gut doesn't need a trained person to diagnose and prescribe? Would you ask a granny on the internet to prescribe medically for your eyes, your heart, etc? Some are setting themselves up for more issues in the future.

I love fruit, it's my go to snack. No bananas though I can't stand them. Apart from bananas and blueberries all fruit are welcome. I do eat quite a lot of it.

One portion of (usually frozen) berries most days with Greek yoghurt and a sprinkling of mixed nuts days plus loads of salad and veg.

I always pop a slice of lime in my G&T.
Or cucumber if it’s Hendricks.

I love fruit and eat loads, way more than the 5 a day, especially in Summer when we have lots of berries in the allotment and all the stoned fruit’s in season. The English cherries were fabulous this year. I’m enjoying the pomegranates at the moment, messy though they are, and always have some frozen fruits of the forest and some figs and dates in to ring the changes at this time of year. We’ve still got a few brambles on the bushes round here, so I might go out scavenging tomorrow.

Dear Urmstongran we could be twins 🤣

I eat more fruit in the summer along with copious amounts of salad.

In the winter it is veggies, bananas as a snack along with blueberries on my wheetabix/oats.

I have a serious banana habit. I do have to let them get very ripe before I can eat them though.

Oranges are always good. I especially like proper clementines, not the "easy-peelers" from the supermarket that taste of nothing but the real thing from a decent greengrocer. Apples I can take or leave. In summer I'm in my fruity element with gooseberries and blackcurrants for pies and crumbles and just stewed with ice cream. I can take all the raspberries I can get. Heaven for me is the Victoria plum season, especially in a heavy-crop season like the one just past. One of my personal eccentricities is watching a film while demolishing a pomegranate aril by aril.

All in all I'm a fruit case. Yes, I like fruitcake more than chocolate cake too (paradise is a Dundee cake that's gone slightly soggy in the middle. I always have been. I can't get my head round the apparent fact of the times that children don't like fruit. How did that come about, do you think?

I love most fruit and vegetables, and eat a fair amount of both, although probably more vegetables than fruit, especially if I have salad for lunch.
Blueberries are my favourite fruit and I can get through several punnets a week!

I try to fill our plates at dinner with half comprising mainly green vegetables, a quarter protein, and a quarter potatoes in some form.
Neither of us is keen on pasta.

I've got to be careful with fruit, as too much sets my diverticular disease and IBS off. I'm more ok with vegetables, so I probably eat far more veg than fruit. I do like fruit - I only wish my digestive system was as comfortable with it.

i rarely eat fruit, except mini tomatoes; it seems such an effort.
i prefer tinned fruit, esp mandarins and peaches.
but don't have that often either.
i used to buy fruit but found i didn't get round to eating it, so usually had to throw it away.

yes, i do buy and even remember to eat, usually, blueberries to have on scrunchies with milk and plain greek yog. and flaked almonds/pecans/walnuts.
but i don't have that every day.
occasionally in the evening.
i don't seem to eat like other people.

i have to keep my potassium levels up so i eat a banana everyday, i also have grapes, i know i don't get my 5 a day but i do eat a large bowl of lettuce, tomatos, pickled red cabbage and beetroot everyday, i always have canned fruit in the cupboard as my bowel cancer surgeon said it was just as good as fresh.

Probably an apple and a satsuma more or less every day, plus maybe grapes or a peach or apricot in season. No berries on cereal, I’m not a fan of cereal. Dh always has strawberries on his muesli when U.K. ones are in season - he’s not allowed to buy imported ones! In winter he has stewed apple.

We do eat loads of veg.

Fruit and veg together, usually well more than 5 portions a day. So far today, fruit juice and cucumber at breakfast (not together), lunch: chickpea and sweet potato curry, courgette curry, strawberries, supper; pumpkin soup, bread and plums.

*LRavenscroft, I had a bowel condition as a child that caused severe constipation, I rpobably stil have it. But as soon as I was old enough to understand, I worked out that to live without it I had to keep active, well lubricated and have a high fibre diet. So far so good.

I used to eat a lot of fruit when I was on slimming world but now mostly just eat it in our overnight oats. I put 3 types of fruit in it but it’s really only about twice a week. I should eat more really.

Somehow I find the size of some fruit really off-putting. Things like apples, pears, bananas and oranges. Berries however I love and smaller fruit such as plums. Tomatoes I eat every day and I would polish off a mango and avocado every day if they weren't so expensive.
Vegetables I love. Last night I was at a buffet meal and had marrow, carrot, onion, sweet potato, cabbage, pumpkin, potato all roasted with garlic then pork with crackling and lots of salad. Yum!

2 pieces of fruit a day plus any number of vegs depending on main meal. I also have a sensitive system! Vegs definitely dont have same effect!

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One portion of (usually frozen) berries most days with Greek yoghurt and a sprinkling of mixed nuts days plus loads of salad and veg.

Snap Growstuff.

More veg than fruit in winter. Raspberries, my favourite small fruit just don’t taste the same out of season.
Bananas, grapes tomatoes and satsumas are my go to winter fruit. My favourite Christmas fruit is prunes, wrapped in stretched streaky bacon of course!