Description
I Live on Fruit by Essie Honiball is a personal health memoir and lifestyle book that documents the author’s experience with a strict fruitarian diet. Honiball describes her journey of recovery after a severe illness and her decision to adopt a diet consisting exclusively of fruit as part of her healing and wellness practice.
The book combines autobiographical narrative with reflections on diet, vitality and alternative approaches to nutrition. It also references a clinical study conducted at the University of Pretoria in 1971, which examined her physical condition during her fruitarian lifestyle and reported findings on her health and work capacity. Through her account, Honiball presents her personal beliefs about diet, natural living and physical restoration.
I Live on Fruit is of interest to readers exploring alternative diets, wellness memoirs, and historical perspectives on nutrition and lifestyle experimentation in South Africa.































