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Why do influencers keep saying that fruit makes you fat?

Claims that fruits should be avoided due to their sugar content are very popular on social media, so we fact-check the claim that eating fruits makes…

A scene depicting two types of apples. On the left are American apples, whereas on the right there are Italian apples, showing the comparisons that are often drawn between these countries' food

Are Italian apples really six times healthier than American apples?

Social media often compares Italian and American products. We fact-check the claim that you’d need to eat six apples in America to get the benefits from...

An image shows two bottles of processed juice. The image conveys the message that many modern juice brands hide the fact that apple juice is the main ingredient

Politics Of Food

Applejuicification: why consumers deserve clearer juice labels

Most fruit juices are heavily diluted with apple juice — yet labels don't make this clear. Here's why juice labelling needs reform and what consumers…

A wooden bowl of fresh whole fruit including apples, oranges, grapes, bananas, strawberries and blueberries

Don’t listen to this influencer's advice, fruit is not making you fat

Whole fruit is unlikely to cause weight gain — the fructose in fruit behaves very differently from added sugar. Here's what the long-term evidence shows.

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