Not long ago I wrote here about the "Good Veggies." But in light of what I now know about fructose not all of them are all that good.

Most of those "good veggies" really are good for us. But carrots have too much fructose for us to think of them any more as being good for us. "Carrots are fructose sticks," Joe says.

The other formerly good veggie is the botanical fruit, sweet red pepper. Unlike sweet green peppers, the red ones are high in fructose.

Not listed among the good veggies but relevant to this discussion are Jerusalem artichokes (also known nowadays as sunchokes). By whatever name you know them, they are bigger fructose sticks than carrots are.

Onions too have more fructose than is good for us. "One of the most disappointing days in my life was when I learned how high in fructose that onions are," Joe wrote me. They actually have about 2.6 grams of fructose per cup. "I miss them, but will occasionally use small amounts of them as a condiment."

That's the way to think about those fruits and vegetables that are a little too high in their levels of fructose. And remember that we still have a lot of wonderful foods to chose from. Particularly if we are omnivores.