Fruitarian (fruitarinism follower) think that their lifestyles as an integral part and a simple lifestyle without harming living creatures, including plants. Unfortunately, there are many skeptical and critical opinion against this lifestyle.
Fruitarianism is a diet that only eat fruits, nuts, seeds, and other plants that come from harvested plants without damaging or harming the plant itself. Many of the fruitarian also eat other foods, although most of it still consume 50 percent or more fruit in their daily diet.
The most common examples of edible fruit that comes from plants, including plums, oranges, apples, melons, berries, banana, mango, avocado, and pineapple, but according to fruitarianism, did only eat fruits that fall naturally, not like harvesting fruit that takes from plants. As described by Carefair.
Besides fruits, vegetables can also be included into the fruitarianism diet, such as tomatoes, cucumbers, green leafy vegetables and root vegetables. Although many of the fruitarian prefer fruits than vegetables because it believed that the fruit is higher quality food and assist people to participate in a natural way of life by spreading the seeds of fruit. Wheat is not included because it is not considered worthy to eat the seeds, which have grown into plants.
Later, the medical community expressed concern that fruitarian will lack the intake of essential vitamins and minerals for daily activities. Medical experts said that, following the fruitarianism lifestyle could make your body deficient of calcium, iron, zinc, protein, vitamin B, vitamin D, and fatty acids.
