Taste The Forbidden Fruit

Filed in archive Developments on February 17, 2006

Fruit is something everyone should be able to enjoy. Not only is it delicious; it provides an amazing amount of vitamins, fiber, and health-boosting
phytochemicals.Many diabetics limit or abstain from fruit, worried about the sugar content.

Good news: U.S. scientists have developed low-sugar fruits, which offer only half the sugar and calories as 'regular' fruit.

There's no word yet on how the fruit compares in taste, but it's nice to see one more option on the horizon.

Now you can have your fruit, and eat it, too!

From Medical News Today:Scientists at the University of California, Davis, have developed apples with high levels of the natural sweetener sorbitol. Sorbitol has only 2.6 calories per gram, 45% less than sucrose and fructose. Sorbitol, fructose and sucrose are all found naturally in fruit.

Although researcher Abhaya Dandekar has worked primarily on apples, he says that related fruits, such as pears, peaches, plums and cherries could also be produced as a low-sugar variety. Dandekar used genetic modification, but he says that plant breeders could use natural methods to achieve the same end.