List of fruits and their properties:

Do you need a list of fruits that are ideal?

Not really. They're almost universally excellent and healthy,and they'll form the bulk of a healthy raw food diet. You should keep a few things in mind while making your selections, however.

The simple sugars of fruit, in the form of glucose and fructose, fuel every cell in the body and give you the energy you need. They are full of potassium, a key component of electrolyte balance.

Fruit is easy to digest, full of vitamins, does not cause cancer or any of the other modern diseases of affluence so rife in our world, and is one of the most enjoyable things to consume. There are hundreds of fruits, most of which many Americans have never even seen.

Enjoy eating them all in as large of a quantity as your caloric needs demand.

For further information on fruit nutrition, read this article.

List of fruits that are sweet:

Home to the banana, which I consider to be the king of fruit due to it's caloric density, nutrient density, and portfolio of properties that make it an excellent food to fuel exercise, there are some amazing fruits in this category, and many more that I've never even had the chance to try. Sweet fruits will probably be a staple on a raw food diet.

Sweet fruit combines well with all fruits except acid fruits and melons. They also combine well with leafy greens and celery.

List of fruits that are acid:

Acid fruits taste great, are usually quite high in water content, and tend to be low in calories. Anyone in a hurry to lose weight should fill up on low calorie acid fruit like oranges and grapefruit instead of more calorie dense fruit like bananas.

With the exception of sweet fruits, they combine well with all fruits, celery and leafy greens. They do not combine well with most vegetables, and many people find them hard to digest with melons.

List of fruits that are sub acid:

These fruit are also excellent and most are low in calories. They combine well with all non fatty fruits as well as well as celery and lettuce. They do not combine well with most other vegetables. Eat as many as you please.

List of fruit that are melons:

Melons are delicious. There are few joys so great as devouring an entire watermelon with the juices running down your face as you sit in the sun. Just thinking about watermelon season makes me smile. I've got some growing in my garden right now.

Many people find that melons should not be combined with other fruit. Others have limited success combining them with certain other fruits and vegetables. Be your own judge, and watch out for "melon belly".

List of fruit that are high in fat:

Fats are essential to the body for managing hormones and other bodily functions, but they start to disrupt health when they're consumed at more than 10 percent of total calories.

Too much fat will bring on chronic fatigue, candida, and other ailments (1). It blocks the uptake of sugar from the blood stream into cells. Most people also find it irresistible to overeat on fat once they've started, and end up consuming far more calories than they intended.

Fat is present in all fruits and vegetables, but in a low percentage for most. Eschewing overt fats, someone living on fruits and vegetables might average three to five percent of their calories from fat.

Most raw foodists, however, consume a far fattier diet. Durians are 20-30 percent fat. Avocados are 70 percent or above depending on the variety. Coconut meat is about 80 percent fat.

These raw fats are fine in small quantities, but they must fall into your diet in a proportion below 10 percent of total calories. Some raw foodists concentrate on fatty fruits and nuts and eat as much as 75 percent of their diet from fat. (2)

If you're aiming for 10 percent, you might eat an avocado or two per week, depending on caloric needs. You'd equally be fine avoiding overt fats completely and getting the minimal fat requirements you have from low fat fruits and vegetables, however.

If overt fat is eaten, it's best to do so at the end of the day so energy is not diverted from exercise or mental tasks to digestion.

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See how this list of fruits fits into a healthy raw food diet