# How much fruit is too much fruit? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 23, 2013, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-fruit-is-too-much-fruit/656527 "2013-04-23T19:47:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![randomface](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/5fc32e/32.png) [@randomface](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/randomface)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2013, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-fruit-is-too-much-fruit/656527/21 "2013-04-29T15:42:08Z")
The glycemic load is the same for the same amount of carbohydrate consumption, but keeping the “fast” sugar down (avoid refined starches and sugar) does generally make you feel better and keep a better reign on your calories. Long before I would worry about your level of fruit intake I would take a hard look at the bread and the chips. ---
**Author:** ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2013, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-fruit-is-too-much-fruit/656527/22 "2013-04-29T18:57:55Z")
> [@Ulfreida](#): > > The smell and texture. Gives me shivers just thinking about it. I have bananaphobia. Although there are other foods I won’t eat (mussels, asparagus, raw egg) because I just don’t like the taste or texture, I’m only afraid of bananas. I realize they are a healthy food. That’s fair … after all, lots of the rest of us are irrationally afraid of large fruit bats. ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2013, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-fruit-is-too-much-fruit/656527/23 "2013-04-29T19:49:01Z")
> [@Ulfreida](#): > > … Although there are other foods I won’t eat (mussels, asparagus, raw egg) . . Is that a woosh? Who the hell eats raw eggs? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2013, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-fruit-is-too-much-fruit/656527/24 "2013-04-29T19:55:04Z")
Oh, and to answer the OP: a relative from a poorer country, when she came to visit us fancy U.S. kinfolk, was so enamored of the fact that orange juice was cheap and readily available here (it was a rare, special treat in Ye Olde Country) that she poured gallons of it into her infant daughter, so much so that said baby developed a really spectacular case of diaper rash. So yes, you can have too much fruit. It takes a LOT, and the main problem would be temporary gastrointestinal distress. ---
**Author:** ![Gymnopithys](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/fbc32d/32.png) [@Gymnopithys](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gymnopithys)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2013, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-fruit-is-too-much-fruit/656527/25 "2013-04-29T21:08:22Z")
> [@Ulfreida](#): > > There is no such thing as too much fruit. Maybe bananas but I hate bananas and never eat them. I can and do usually eat a minimum of ten pieces of fruit a day (“pieces” meaning an apple, an orange, a bunch of grapes, a small carton of berries). The limiting factors are my tooth enamel and diarrhea (neither is a problem normally). If I don’t have fruit at every meal plus snacks I start to die. > > Also I am a large tropical bat. Having diarrhoea when hanging head down from a branch is kind of… unpleasant 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-fruit-is-too-much-fruit/656527.md?page=1)