Fruit "Do's" and "Don'ts"

Fruit has a fiber matrix. You want the matrix to be broken down as much as possible. A banana is a good example...over-ripened is better. The yellow to green bananas are very hard for our stomachs to digest. The same is true for vegtables...over boil green beans, carrots, etc... to make them very soft and easy to digest.

Here is a list of fruits that work for me and agree with facts I've come across over time.

Do's:
Apples (peel it)
applesauce
bananas (over-ripened)
oranges (I drink the juice, I avoid eating much (if any) of it because there is so much nondigestable fiber)
peaches and pears (canned or fresh...no skins. I buy the canned fruit in "lite syrup")
apricots
cantaloupes
cranberries (jellied)
honeydew melons
mangoes
nectarines
papayas
plums

"Caution" Category:
blueberries
grapefruit (I have this seldomly)
kiwi
strawberries
currants
lemons (peel it)
pineapple (I would put this in the "don't" category for me)
tangerines
watermelon (I would put this in the "don't" category for me)


Don'ts:
blackberries (I tolerate this)
boysenberries
cherries (I tolerate this)
dried fruits
grapes (peel it)
raspberries (I tolerate this)

It's going to be a process of figuring out which ones you will tolerate. This is a good baseline to go by.