Richard Johnson, MD, explains that fructose comes from fruit but warns against excess consumption. He argues fruits offer real health benefits despite their natural sugar content, and moderation is key.
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You don't want to have excess fructose. But, but, but I'm not telling you to have no fructose. For example, natural fruits have a lot of benefits. And, you know, I think you could easily eat 25 grams of fructose a day and be fine. It's really the problem of, of eating too much. Like, I think the average sugar intake is, makes up about 15% of our total diet. And some people are eating 25% of their diet as added sugars, and that's way too much. And I think soft drinks are particularly bad because you drink them and so you get a very big rapid ingestion. And the concentration that hits the liver is very high. And what triggers the depletion of ATP is the concentration of fructose.