Dec 5, 2025: Low-sugar fruits packed with nutrients

Welcome to this month’s edition of Boost Gut Health. Our 2026 theme will be healthy gut habits and we’re getting started early.  

Two Gut Healthy Habits

Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants. I love this summary of how to eat by author Michael Pollan: “Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.”

His 2011 book Food Rules offers common sense ideas we can all recognize, such as: “It’s not food it it arrived through the window of your car.”

Uncomfortable gut? Check out FODMAPs. FODMAPs are a type of carbohydrate that may not be easily digested.

It’s worth checking out how to eat low-FODMAP foods if your gut doesn’t feel right. The food class was created by Monash University in Australia. They have a free app you can download called Monash FODMAP diet.

One Lesson

Low-sugar fruits our gut loves. One of the benefits of low-sugar fruits is that we get all the nutrients without the sugar bomb that some fruit delivers. Think kiwi fruit, lemons, oranges and berries, rather than bananas and grapes (though they are delicious).

It’s a good idea to get at least those five recommended servings of fruit and vegetables a day — but not all fruit is created the same.

Here’s how the sugar numbers compare for 100g of fruit: bananas (23g), green grapes (19g), blueberries (15g), kiwi fruit (14g), and an orange (12g). To visualize these numbers more readily, think: four grams = one level teaspoon of sugar.

So if you want the benefits of fruit without the extra sugar, particularly if you’re looking to lose weight, then choose your fruit wisely.

Here are some more low-fruit favorites: https://juleswalters.com/low-sugar-fruits/​

One Quote

“He who does not know food, how can he understand the diseases of man?”

Hippocrates, father of modern medicine