Organic Sugar Vs. Natural Sugar (eg. Found In Fruit), What Is The Difference?
December 10, 2009 by
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I bought an organic soda with organic sugar, is this sugar the same as sugar found in fruit?
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Gregory on Thu, 10th Dec 2009 6:52 am
“sugar” describes a number of different chemicals.
table sugar, or sucrose, is a combination of glucose and fructose. Your body uses glucose for energy, and it splits them apart moderately slowly after you start eating them. Fructose has to be split apart by your liver and the by-products mess with your body in unpleasant ways.
Even though fructose can cause problems when you eat fruit you’re getting it with a lot of fiber which makes you absorb it slowly. The worst is high-fructose corn syrup, which has fructose and glucose but not bound together, so they both hit your system really fast.
So the answer is no, sugar (sucrose) is not the same as fruit sugar (fructose).