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Apples

Apples are a type of fruit derived from the apple tree (Malus domestica). They are one of the most widely cultivated tree fruits and are used in a variety of food and drink recipes. Apples contain multiple essential nutrients including dietary fiber, vitamin C, potassium, and antioxidants, which contribute to their numerous health benefits.

Category
Fruits
Molecular Formula
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Mechanism of Action
The antioxidants and dietary fiber in apples contribute to their health benefits. Antioxidants neutralize harmful free radicals in the body, while dietary fiber aids in digestion and contributes to feelings of fullness.
Evidence Grade
A

Other Names

  • Malus domestica
  • Malus pumila

Primary Benefits

  • Improves digestion
  • Boosts immune system
  • Aids in weight management
  • Reduces risk of heart disease
  • Helps in controlling blood sugar levels

Recommended Dosage

Children 1-2 apples per day
Adults 1-2 apples per day
Elderly 1-2 apples per day

Side Effects

  • May cause allergic reactions in some individuals
  • Consuming too many apples may lead to digestive issues like bloating and diarrhea

Precautions

  • People with apple allergies or oral allergy syndrome should avoid apples
  • Individuals with diabetes should monitor their intake due to the natural sugars present in apples

Interactions

  • Apples can potentially interact with certain medications, such as statins or other drugs that are affected by the fruit's high fiber content

Key References

  • Boyer, J., & Liu, R. H. (2004). Apple phytochemicals and their health benefits. Nutrition Journal, 3(1), 5.
  • Hyson, D. A. (2011). A comprehensive review of apples and apple components and their relationship to human health. Advances in Nutrition, 2(5), 408-420.
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“But when it's, again, in the context of a food, like a, let's say, even an orange or an apple, you are not getting either the dose of fructose or the packaging of fructose that you get when you add sugar to a Coke and then drinking it in a concentrated form that's absorbed more rapidly, and there's much more of it.”

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“we eat things with DNA in them like apples and you know asparagus uh and some amount of that DNA is going to survive passage through the gut into poop.”

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“Fresh fruit like peaches, apples, pears, berries you can have a bunch of them and realize like oh my God I actually need double this to get my carbs for the day or just just a handful of berries after meal if you put it on the food scale it takes care of the Sweet Tooth and it's awesome.”

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“today's hybridized fruits are very high in sugar and very low in fiber so they're not like the wild apples in hawaii where they look more like vegetables i mean these are and they're perfectly good foods if they're used appropriately so we use whole fruit not fruit juices not dried fruits not processed you know artificial sugars we're talking about your berries your melons and we usually have one meal that might have some fruit and two meals that are really more vegetable dominated”

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“let's take an apple class 1 on the nova system would be an apple class 2 on the nova system would be apple slices class 3 on the nova system would be apple sauce, unsweetened class 4 on the nova system would be an apple pie”

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“so what happens with apple juice whether it's let's just let's just take apple juice that's not also uh sweetened right because you know sometimes they add extra sugar just taking an apple and putting it in the vitamix okay okay all right let's do that kind of apple juice okay apple juice that's been vitamix or the jamba juice okay people say that's great right because that's whole fruit well it was whole food now it's not”

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“most mothers will tell their kids if you eat if you eat it with the skin you'll get more stuff and it's absolutely true there's not only more fiber oftentimes in the outer layers as you're talking about outer outer layers yeah but there's also more phytonutrients and these bioactives in apples and pears and in peaches there is actually a substance called ursolic acid that's much more concentrated in the outer layer and uracilic acid is one of those bioactives that stimulates blood vessel growth it helps us heal it stimulates angiogenesis so that if we have an injury our bodies will more will speed its healing up that could be really important for our cardiovascular system for example it helps to promote the growth of blood vessels in beneficial sort of ways now that's actually on the peel so okay so how can you eat fruit peel well uh look uh if you had to eat six apricots or six pears uh or six peaches you know that might take a little work or six apples that's that's a pretty commit that's a good commitment to eat six apples um uh even in a day but on the…”

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“food I would say 80% of the time you're going to be in a good shape and then so that allows you that other 20% to like be in those situations where you're caught with your pants down right and you don't have some snack available or some food available and you need to eat something and I've been in those situations where like literally there's nothing to eat that I would choose normally and sometimes I just decide to fast right I mean hey I can wait till the till I get to where I'm going and get something better but majority of times you can make better choices there's always a banana there's always an apple there's always some plain almonds available at the airport right there's always an option for a one ingredient food and so that's what I I tell people to do and and again if you're in these circumstances a lot then you need to really make a choice whether you want to stop to do this more effectively”

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“there's a lot of chemicals in foods and you know there's it's 10,000 chemicals so you can figure out how many of those may be detrimental to health I would say one of the biggest problem with ultra processed foods is the added sugar and when we say added sugar we mean not sugar like if you if you're eating an apple right it's got like natural sugar in in that that's bound to a fiber Matrix we're talking about adding table sugar like sucrose glucose and fructose 50% mixture of each into it”

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The Nutritional Scientist: Do Not Eat After 9pm! Link Between Chewing & Belly Fat!
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“those people who were given the puree even though they were given exactly the same amount of calories ate that puree or rather drank that puree three to four times more quickly than when they had the apples”

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The Nutritional Scientist: Do Not Eat After 9pm! Link Between Chewing & Belly Fat!
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“those that were having the puree had what we call a blood sugar dip”

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“you go on to eat 180 calories on average more at your next meal because of that”

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“Well, because it turns out lycopene is a natural chemical that in its native form, pick a tomato off the vine and eat it that like an apple, it's absorbed in your body, but not avidly, not as much as possible.”

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“there are two that impact our blood sugar levels it's starches so that's bread, rice, pasta, potatoes, oats and sugars so anything sweet from an apple pie turn orange juice these two categories of foods they're literally made up of glucose molecules so when you eat them they break down into individual glucose molecules and the glucose molecules arrive into your blood”

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“brands are jumping on this and are making vinegar drinks that have sugar in them so you want straight vinegar you don't want anything that has even a tiny bit of apple juice or sugar.”

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“I always try to eat green apples. They're really high in malic acid.”

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“So resveratrol will, there's another one called quercetin, or quercetin, some people call it, what you find in trace amounts in apples and onions.”

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