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[–] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

Fructose is the element in sugar (Sucrose) that actually taste sweet, it is also the part that is unhealthy. it acts somewhat like alcohol.
Giving similar problems and can also cause dependency.

If you want to know the basics about sugar I don't think there is much better info than this out there, absolutely worth a watch:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (3 children)

    Glucose by itself tastes sweet

    Glucose by itself is also very unhealthy

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Fructose is twice as sweet as Glucose, and while we do use Glucose for energy the same is not true for fructose, and fructose is way way more harmful.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweetness

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    Sure, but the fact remains that glucose is sweet.

    Unless you have FLD the vast majority of metabolic damage is from persistently elevated blood glucose. There is no dietary requirement for exogenous glucose in our food.

    So is 100g of fructose worse then 100g of glucose? Sure, but glucose is still quite bad and abundant in most people's diets.

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