Can the fruits help us build muscles?
One of the most common questions we get is whether the fruit has a place when it comes to muscle gain. The confusion most often comes from the fact that most fruits contain a lot of sugar and the fact that most people have heard that sugar is generally a bad thing when it comes to the growth of pure muscles.

Let us help you clarify this question by giving you an explanation of how the fruits not only fit but at some point, they are also the best option to feed your muscle growth.


The first difference that needs to be made is to chemically distinguish the sugar contained in plain white sugar.

Fruits are not composed of pure glucose but rather a mix of slowly degrading carbohydrates called fructose and the above-mentioned glucose. Pure glucose is very rapidly degraded in the body, and that is why such foods are very often the choice of diabetics who receive hypoglycaemic attacks.

 

Juice juices often have the opposite effect and make people feel much better in just minutes. In fact, fructose (because of its molecular form and its essence) is degraded and digested almost entirely in the small intestine. This, in turn, limits the effect of fructose on your insulin levels, and in this case, it is sugar-free.

 

Fruits - Strong food for recovery

However, remember that fruits contain not only pure fructose! Nearly half of the carbohydrates are ordinary fast-acting glucose. What does all this mean? Quite simple!

The fruits used in your diet carry you both as fast-acting carbohydrate, which immediately raises blood sugar levels, and the slow-acting carbohydrate - the energy that breaks down slowly throughout the day. This is unique in nature and is definitely a very important and powerful muscle recovery food that can not be ignored when choosing your calorie intake.

 

Taking all this into account, you should carefully consider when it is time to include fruit in your diet. When will your body and muscles get the most benefits from the rapid increase in blood sugar/insulin levels and when from the slowly decomposing source of energy? Right ... right after a workout.

 

After intensive training, muscle glycogen levels are usually depleted, and you will immediately want to replace them with a fast-digesting carbohydrate - a source of glucose. But at the same time remember that you have to put in your muscles and not a small dose of protein.

The Perfect Solution?

Shake to replace your diet (carbohydrate plus protein) with fresh fruit to taste. Put everything in the blender (one dose of protein with milk and fruit of choice - banana, strawberry, apple, etc.) and you have the perfect solution for this key 45-60 minute window after a workout for your recovery.

 

After everything we said, if you are wondering if the fruit has a place in your nutritional plan, do not let it go! There is definitely one! It just has to be at the right time and combined with the right nutrients to give the optimal results you are looking for. Add the fact that they contain many antioxidants, vitamins, and minerals, and you already have many reasons not to avoid them.