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Trying to eat healthier, (edit for me this means lower sugar, less carbs, more protein) and it seems like everything that is sweet, sweet-ish, or a snack but also sold as healthy has peanuts or is peanuts. I'm not allergic to it, but I am tired of peanut butter cookies, peanuts in a snack bar, peanuts on their own, peanuts in a snack mix.

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[–] JayleneSlide@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Whole, modern, domesticated fruits do contain quite a bit of sugar, but that sugar is locked up in fiber. There are lots of anti-sugar crusaders that consider whole fruit to be a "gimme." Gary Taubes (Good Calories, Bad Calories) and Robert Lustig (Sugar: the Bitter Truth) are two that leap to mind.

[–] Usernameblankface@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

I'm just going by my sense of my body's reaction. Eating an apple seems to have the same effect on me as eating a candy bar. My aversion to needles stops me from constantly testing my blood sugar levels to actually know.