A big source of sugar that surprises many people is sweet, sugary fruit. We've heard time and time again we should "eat fruits and vegetables," as though the two are equivalent. But they're not. Vegetables contain a higher nutrient-to-energy ratio than fruit. Even fruits with decent nutrient content-like wild blueberries- are full of sugar. For most people, eating on apple-sized portion of fruit per day is plenty.
Though fruits do contain fiber, minerals, and tannins and other flavinoids, which can function as antioxidants, sweet fruit is mostly sugar. What about honey? Same idea-mostly sugar and very little of anything else. Vitamin C happens to be a type of sugar we can't make and need to eat, and one orange a day gives us most of what we need. But then again, so does a green pepper but without all the unneeded, damaging sugar.
To make matter worse for fruit lovers, fructose kicks your liver into fat-storage mode.
source: Deep Nutrition by Catherine Shanahan, MD
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