Participants eating whole mangoes daily saw lower fasting blood sugar, stable HbA1c, improved insulin sensitivity, and lean muscle gain compared to granola bar eaters.
The whole-fruit matrix effect—fiber, antioxidants, and bioactive compounds—mitigates negative metabolic impacts of natural sugars.
Replacing processed snacks with whole fruit may improve body composition and metabolic health more effectively than avoiding sugar entirely.
This study highlights the power of food as medicine, challenging flawed dietary guidelines and pharmaceutical dependency for blood sugar management.
For decades, people with prediabetes have been warned to avoid fruit and told that natural sugars could spike blood glucose and worsen their condition. The conventional advice was simple: sugar is sugar, and all of it is bad. But a groundbreaking 24-week study is turning that advice on its head, proving that a whole mango—containing nearly three times the sugar of a granola bar—actually lowers blood sugar levels while improving body composition....<<<Read More>>>....
