{"id":14060,"date":"2020-09-03T22:48:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-04T02:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/?p=14060"},"modified":"2020-09-10T11:09:28","modified_gmt":"2020-09-10T15:09:28","slug":"low-lectin-fruits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/low-lectin-fruits\/","title":{"rendered":"Low-Lectin Fruits: What Fruits Can You Eat On PPP?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Are all fruits off-limits on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/the-plant-paradox-diet\/\">the Plant Paradox Program<\/a>? Are there any low-lectin fruits?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Low-lectin fruits are rare, but they do exist. You can avoid the negative impacts of fruits by focusing on low-lectin fruits and fruits that are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/foods-high-in-resistant-starch\/\">resistant starches<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more about low-lectin fruits and what fruits you can eat when following the Plant Paradox Program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Fruits High in Lectins<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Fruit trees want their seeds to be eaten. When predators eat these seeds (and later <em>distribute <\/em>them) they\u2019re helping to spread them far and wide, which helps the plant\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/premature-birth-chances-of-survival-at-weeks-24-26\/\">chance of survival<\/a>. If the fruit were to simply drop on the ground below the mother plant, those seeds would have to compete for sun, moisture, and nutrients.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, plants don\u2019t want predators to eat these seeds until the seeds have fully developed the hard coating to survive digestion\u2014when the fruit is ripe. Consequently, unripe fruit is a different color (usually green) to indicate that it\u2019s not ready yet and contains toxins (including lectins) designed to make predators sick. Once the fruit is ripe, and the seeds are ready for their journey, the levels of lectins drop and the fruit develops its rightful color to alert animals that it\u2019s ready to eat.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When you buy out-of-season fruit, it\u2019s typically grown in another country, picked unripe, shipped, and then blasted with a gas that changes the fruit\u2019s color to make it look ripe. However, fruit that doesn\u2019t ripen naturally never gets the message from the mother plant to lower lectin levels so they are fruits high in lectins. As a result, <strong>when you eat fruit out of season, you\u2019re ingesting large amounts of lectins.<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Low-Lectin Fruits and the Plant Paradox Program<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Fruits contain sugar that signal to your body that it\u2019s summertime (aka fat-storing season), so you can only have them in limited servings. In addition to familiar fruits, this includes several that are commonly called vegetables, such as nightshades (e.g. eggplants, tomatoes, peppers, and goji berries) and squash (e.g. cucumbers, pumpkins, and zucchini).&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Your body processes fruit like candy.<\/strong> Remember that any time your body detects sweetness (even if it\u2019s fruit or sugar-free artificial sweeteners), it reacts the same way\u2014by storing fat. There are only a few fruits that won\u2019t have this effect:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Unripe bananas<\/li><li>Unripe mangoes<\/li><li>Unripe papayas<\/li><li>Avocados<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>During the first phase of the Plant Paradox Program, you avoid fruit during the cleanse. In phase 2, you can eat limited quantities. You can have one avocado a day because it has good fats, and enjoy unripe papayas, unripe mangoes, and unripe bananas because these are resistant starches. Other fruits must be limited, including berries, cherries, apples, peaches, plums, and citrus (not juice).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are all fruits off-limits on the Plant Paradox Program? Are there any low-lectin fruits? Low-lectin fruits are rare, but they do exist. You can avoid the negative impacts of fruits by focusing on low-lectin fruits and fruits that are resistant starches. 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