Dried fruits, dehydrator, etc.

[Taysia]

I'm just beginning my raw food journey and need some advice from you veterans out there. ;)

Generally speaking, I had thought that most people are trying to control sugar in their diets, but I read your blogs about what fruits you all are putting up in your dehydrators. It appears as though dried fruits are mainstays in the raw diet. Aren't the concentrated sugars found in dried fruits converted by the liver into a simple sugar anyway? Should we be eating dried fruits in moderation?

I'm thinking of getting a dehydrator, mainly to make flax crackers which I love to eat with nut butters and pates. I want to be able to use my dehydrator for more than just crackers, so I'm considering fruits but wondered about the sugar thing.

What's your take on this?

[Colorawdo girl]

Fruits in balance,like everything else.Balance is good. Yes fruit sugar is still sugar.

[Kitteh]

So far I have used my dehydrator only once or twice to make fruit rolls and more recently to make raw flax crackers and raw cookies.

I wouldn't eat dried fruit a lot and I prefer my fruit fresh. But being able to take dehydrated fruit on a trip would be handy.

[spicyfull]

Dried Fruit contains sugar but it is different frow white sugar. Cane Syrup and Beets, which is used to make white sugar, has been bleached and refined and goes directly to our blood stream which raises insulin levels too fast.

Natural Sugars like RAW cane syrup and dried fruit has a lower glysmic index and they enter our blood stream slower and has all the nutritional compounds in tact. But if you are doing a calorie count........a calorie is a calorie. Most of us RAW don't count them.