"The Fruit You're Eating Is Fake!"- The Dangers & Truth Nobody Tells You | Jessie Inchauspé

1. RCDr. Rangan Chatterjee0:00

   Fruits versus dried fruits

2. JIJessie Inchauspé0:02

   Oh my God, I think this is one of my favorite topics.

3. RCDr. Rangan Chatterjee0:04

   Okay, let's go.

4. JIJessie Inchauspé0:05

   Okay. So you know how people say, um, "Well, it's fruit, so it's natural"? Yeah, okay. So I have a scoop for you. The fruit that we have today in our supermarkets is not natural. Just like humans bred gray wolves into Chihuahuas for their entertainment, humans have been crossing and breeding fruit for millennia to make them more appetizing for humans, to make them sweeter, to make them have fewer seeds, less fiber. If you look at an ancestral banana, it's tiny, it's full of seeds, it's quite dense, and it's not very sweet. If you look at a banana today, it's very sweet, very little fiber, very little seeds, super easy to eat. Humans have been creating these fruits-

5. RCDr. Rangan Chatterjee0:54

   Mm

6. JIJessie Inchauspé0:54

   ... to be extra juicy and extra sweet and extra full of sugar. So that's one thing to note. The fruit you see today in the supermarket is not natural. However, a piece of fruit still has fiber in it, and fiber is protective, as I explained at the beginning. Fiber helps reduce the glucose spike of a meal-

7. RCDr. Rangan Chatterjee1:12

   Mm-hmm

8. JIJessie Inchauspé1:12

   ... because it creates that mesh in the intestine. So if you wanna eat something sweet, eating fiber is still the best th- sorry, eating a piece of whole fruit is still the best thing to do because of that fiber blunting the spike from the sugar.

9. RCDr. Rangan Chatterjee1:24

   Mm.

10. JIJessie Inchauspé1:25

    The problem arises when we denature that piece of fruit. So maybe we're gonna juice an apple.

11. RCDr. Rangan Chatterjee1:31

    Mm-hmm.

12. JIJessie Inchauspé1:31

    As a result, we're removing all the fiber from the apple, and we're concentrating the sugar that was already being concentrated for centuries by humans in that whole apple. When we dry our fruits, we take away all of the water, so we concentrate the sugar, and we eat way more pieces of dried fruit than we would of regular fruit.

13. RCDr. Rangan Chatterjee1:49

    Yeah, and what's, I think, particularly concerning about that is there's quite a few companies now which are targeting children with dried fruits, and I think many parents are... Again, um, I, I, I always say this, and I wanna reiterate this point. I genuinely believe that all parents are doing the best that they can in the context of their life situation, the context of their knowledge.

14. JIJessie Inchauspé2:14

    Mm-hmm.

15. RCDr. Rangan Chatterjee2:15

    But I'm not sure that [laughs] those dried fruit packets are the best thing to be giving our kids, particularly on an empty stomach.

16. JIJessie Inchauspé2:24

    Yes, although you could argue that dried fruit is better than, like, candy because at least it has some fiber in it. Though what would be even better, if you really wanna give dried fruit, would be to pair it with some nuts, for example.

17. RCDr. Rangan Chatterjee2:34

    Yeah.

18. JIJessie Inchauspé2:34

    So you make a little snack with, like, a few, like, dried apricots and then some pecans or whatever. That's better 'cause you're putting some clothes on the [laughs] on the carbs, right?

19. RCDr. Rangan Chatterjee2:41

    Yeah. I get it, and that, that's what I love about all your suggestions. They can be applied by anyone in any situation, no matter what diet they're following.

20. JIJessie Inchauspé2:49

    Yes.

21. RCDr. Rangan Chatterjee2:50

    Little hacks, little tweaks just to make things a little bit better than they would've otherwise been, right?

22. JIJessie Inchauspé2:55

    Exactly. We're not talking, like, big overhaul-

23. RCDr. Rangan Chatterjee2:57

    Yeah

24. JIJessie Inchauspé2:58

    ... of your life, of your food habits. No, no, no. Small tweaks, big impact.

25. RCDr. Rangan Chatterjee3:02

    Yeah. Adding those nuts into the dried fruit-

26. JIJessie Inchauspé3:04

    Yeah

27. RCDr. Rangan Chatterjee3:04

    ... you can see how it could be really tasty-

28. JIJessie Inchauspé3:07

    Yeah, absolutely

29. RCDr. Rangan Chatterjee3:08

    ... and change the blood sugar response.

30. JIJessie Inchauspé3:09

    Absolutely.

Episode duration: 16:29