why do you eat them away from other food?
Headed to bed and the below doesn't have any study links (the one for blueberries and milk would be easy enough to find however and I'm sure you have already seen it) so skip this is you are looking explicitly for such references...
When I first started trying to decide on what fruits to eat, and when to eat them and with what... I read lots of suggestions that to slow down their digestion and lessen the immediate hit on blood sugar, eating fruits with some fat was the way to go.
Then you have others suggesting that fruits should be eaten by themselves, or at least before other slower digesting food, to avoid bloating and indigestion. Melons are a good example of such fast digesting fruit that they usually make special reference to.
Just a random google search finds this book preview page (I've never read the book mind you) that suggests eating fruit first thing the am away from other food by at least 30 minutes:
http://books.google....3P0OxIC&pg=PA79Then theres the AGE issue with the claim that fructose (and galactose) are roughly 10 times more reactive than glucose:
http://andersonclan....m#_Toc136492985http://jerrymondo.tr.../lgev/id15.html And lastly the study that linked the binding of blueberry's phenolic compounds to the protein in milk, with the suggestion to eat them either one hour before protein is consumed, or two hours after.
But ultimately it came down to what works best for me. My stomach doesn't want anything remotely heavy before noon, and these berries give me no gastric problems in the morning on an empty stomach.
Edited by frankbuzin, 03 May 2009 - 09:12 AM.