I'm going on holiday in a few weeks time and I know that a lot of the foods - especially vegetables and fruits - that I'll see there aren't in the "Good carbs, good fats" book.

I'm a big fan of tropical fruit and know I will have to limit myself.

How do I know how much of each fruit or veg constitutes a serving?

If I do some research I can probably find nutritional info on them though?

Is there a guideline based on the amount of carbs/sugars per 100g?

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If you will look at and print up the food list and meal plan guide, it will give you which fruits we can have on SBD.

Tropical fruits are the highest in sugar of all fruits so not your best choices. Please see the Phase II food list for our list of acceptable fruits.

If you are that interested in researching the nutritional values of a specific fruit, I suggest that you google that particular fruit.

But surely the list is based on what is available where the book is published. Wht makes the fruit suitable must be it's nutritional properties and not all tropical fruits would necessarily fail.

A guava is probably not sweeter than say a pear and could easily be a better source of fibre.
And many tropical fruit may not be as sweet.

Everone knows mangoes, bananas and citris fruits but there's a lot more to tropical fruit that those.

If I lived in the caribbean, would I not be able to follow SBD becuase it only lists foregn (and very expensive) fruit?

I don't know how important fruit is in the scheme of things, but if I can't eat tropical fruit when on holiday then it's not likely I'll be able to eat any fruit at all.

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You can certainly eat oranges and grapefruits.....and you can eat any fruit that you chose to eat. I'm just giving you the guidelines.....which is what they are...a guide!!

You make your own choices!!

Once again, tropical fruits are higher in sugar and higher on the GI.....

Written communication of often stiff and does need a bit of "stuff" to make it friendly. Using an emoticon once in a while and or offering a little gratitude for time spent answering your questions...would be helpful.

All of them?!

This is from the food list for phase II. If here are any fruits that you are interested in that you don't see here, once again, I suggest that you google that specific fruit for its nutritional content.

I'm not one for using emoticons but will try and show my appreciation a bit more in the future.

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Thanks.

I can and have found much info on the various fruits. What I don't know (and was asking in my original post) is how do I 'calculate' if they're suitable or not?

So what I wanted to know was if there was a guideline based on the nutritional info of foods.

So for example if I find out that guavas have a GI value of 20 and 5g of sugar per 100g, how do i know if that's good to eat, and in what quantities?

I'm not trying to be difficult but I know that in the caribbean, that fruits that we take for granted (grapes, apples, pears, berries) have to be imported and are costly as a result. But there's be lots of local produce, which is cheaper, and not necessarily worse than what's on the list.

And that's not even getting into the ethics of the situation.

Thanks for your help, anyway.

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If guava does indeed have a GI of 20, then thats a good fruit for you to eat.......anything under GI 50 is considered low enough for this plan .

Your welcome!!

That was just an example with a number I pulled out of a hat.
But now I know what I'm working with.
Cheers

PS. I so often use the quick reply that I don't get the option of emoticons.

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