Fructose is a strange sugar. It is the sweetest natural sugar, yet it has the lowest glycemic index of any sugar. Nutritionists often recommend that people with diabetes use fructose.
Many of our favorite fruits and vegetables get their sweetness from fructose. We love honey, tree fruits, berries, ...
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Peter James
Monday, July 24, 2006 at 12:24 PMHaving downloaded the abstract of Dr Bantle's recent paper and the Nov. 2000 article, it remains unclear from the abstract whether all the conclusions apply to diabetes patients or some only for 'healthy subjects'. While sharing your view on de minimis amounts, I am still concerned over medium amounts (no fuss about 'regular' soft drinks, sweetened with high fructose corn syrup; counted them out years ago). Somewhere they argue that glucose is better than fructose: surprisingly counterintuitive! Thanks for pointing this research out, David. David's Response: The full-text version of Dr. Bantle's recent paper, which he sent me, makes it clear, Peter, that his conclusions do apply to patients with diabetes and not just for "healthy subjects." It wasn't Dr. Bantle but rather Joe Anderson who argues that glucose is better than fructose. It is counterintuitive. And I am not ready to accept it either.
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Cytomax
David
Tuesday, February 03, 2009 at 03:04 PMI've hoped to use Cytomax Lite as a Gatorade substitute,
but the former contains fructose and should probably
be consumed sparingly.
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