Mixed fruits vs fruit salad vs a mixture of food

Which is healthier?

Recently a loved one was concerned and stated, 'Don't mix too much'. Stating the amount of different types of fruits I was eating at the time. They were Langsat, Mangosteen, Jack Fruit & Mandarin Oranges. Mix too much? In comparison to what you might ask.

She was concerned I might have a bad tummy after that. Well, I do appreciate the concern, but then I started to think- how much can a mixture of different 'fresh' fruits be damaging to one's body? As compared to having bowls of fruit salad?

It all depends on 'how' the fruit salad was prepared of course. In some cultures, fruit salads consist of - mixed fruits of course, like grapes, cherries, apples, pineapple cubes, canned longans & lychees etc which are still ok. But when it's mixed with cheese cubes or grated cheese, cream milk, or condensed milk with mayonnaise, that's where the problem comes in.

Eating a huge amount of fresh fruits might or might not get you a tummy detox action in the loo, but eating a few bowls of that fruit salad might get you hundreds more calories, clogged arteries and sugar spikes like nobody's business. Now unless the fruit salad is all fresh fruit chopped into small pieces, then- we have another story.

So what about other mixtures of foods?

How about a burger, some fries, coleslaw and a soda? That's a mixture of unhealthiness right there- I won't even go into what these foods consist of unless these are all made freshly from home; even that, it still needs to be added with sugars salt, fried & grilled with oil etc. Compared to that mixture of fresh fruits? I think it's safer to eat the latter. Rant stops.

We only have one body. Stay healthy.

Photos attributes:

Mangosteen:
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Jack fruit:
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Mandarin oranges:
<a href="https://www.freepik.com/free-photo/close-up-fresh-organic-mandarins_14628275.htm#query=mandarin%20oranges&position=0&from_view=search&track=ais&uuid=d43afc1e-377d-4b9c-b85a-72af34d9d857">Image by azerbaijan_stockers</a> on Freepik