The fruit diet is a simple and essential diet, based precisely on the prevalent consumption of fruit, avoiding industrial or fermented foods. Let's find out better.
What is the fruit diet
The first foods that primitive men ate were fruits, vegetables, roots : vegetarians, vegans, raw food and fruitarians start from this principle to balance their nutrition.
Often the fruit diet, when it becomes regular and fully adopted, is the direct consequence of a tendency and extreme evolution of vegetarian practices, vegan cuisine and raw food orientation .
There are specific associations that deal with fruitarian nutrition, for example Fruttalia, AVA and Fruit.
The main foods
Those who follow the fruit diet feed in a simple and essential way, avoiding industrial or fermented foods; also legumes and seeds, if eaten, are usually crushed in particular and mixed in a little water, also to take full advantage of their properties, as in the case of flax seeds .
Some fruitarians eat only raw fruit, while others also cook it; others still include legumes, honey, dried fruit, chocolate and olive oil in their diet.
Benefits and contraindications of the fruit diet
Fruitarianism is a demanding diet to be followed over time: you cannot become a fruitarian from one day to the next but a course of at least two years is required. THE
raw foods notoriously rich in vital elements such as enzymes, vitamins, amino acids, salts and trace elements; they are also rich in fiber and polyunsaturated fatty acids, which guarantee good intestinal activity.
But there is a need to understand that the fruit diet requires patience and a lot of listening .
Fruit diet: ideal if
You are questioning everything about eating habits and want to cleanse, detoxify the system.
Fruit diet: contraindicated if
Make choices at the time and the rides then abruptly abandon them. Also suitable for those who do it for the sole purpose of losing weight.
Faithful and famous in the fruit diet
We would like to point out a bitter fruit diet, which is also the author of a book: Fruttarismo, the way to heaven, the author is Anne Osborne, an English woman who moved to Australia, who discovered the fruitarian diet at 24 and according to this style he raised his two children.
