Just
avoid added fructose - containing sugar — added sweets should be safe starch based, like rice syrup.
Not exact matches
Avoid drinking cola and as an
added you should see a drop in your weight thanks to no more High
Fructose Corn Syrup and spikes to your blood sugar levels.
Avoid products that have
fructose added in them or high -
fructose corn syrup.
One possible solution to improve the glucose:
fructose ratio while
avoiding starches would be to
add rice syrup or tapioca syrup to juiced vegetables or fruits, or to smoothies of some kind.
Also, these are the only things I can think of that I changed in my diet in the past week: —
avoiding cow dairy (except butter); replaced with goat milk and goat cheese (not raw)-- I bought glucose tablets to use for my low blood sugars (trying to get away from excess
fructose), Dex 4 «Naturals» (no color
added) Ingredients: Dextrose (D - glucose), cellulose, sterotex, citric acid, malic acid, natural orange flavor, ascorbid acid.
All of these
fructose - laden foods and drinks are easy to
avoid though if you choose to eat consciously... for example, make homemade salad dressings from your favorite olive oil and vinegar with
added spices, or choose to drink unsweetened iced tea with lemon instead of sweetened drinks or juices.
Jackie, you want to
avoid foods / beverages that have more
fructose than glucose — so
adding just
fructose may boost the
fructose higher than the glucose in that food or beverage — so best bet, yes,
avoid items with
added fructose.
Also, remember to always read labels when grocery shopping and
avoid all
added sugars, including table sugar, brown sugar, raw sugar, golden sugar, yellow sugar, corn sugar, cane sugar, beet sugar, grape sugar, date sugar, honey, molasses, corn syrup, barley malt, high -
fructose corn syrup, sorghum syrup, carob, caramel, sucrose, dextrose,
fructose, glucose, lactose, maltose, and any item that is called a sweetener or contains the word «sugar.»
In order to maintain your microbiome health,
avoid added sugars like sucrose,
fructose, or glucose.
These range from 7 - 44 %
fructose (by calorie), but spread intake of 3 servings of whole berries / citrus through the day,
avoid added sugars, and you're still only getting about 4 % of your calories from slowly absorbed
fructose (vs. about 11 - 12 % of quickly absorbed
fructose in the average American diet).