They are fairly high in sugar content (65 on the chart above), but half of that is glucose which is much better for weight
control than fructose (18)
Not exact matches
While an increasing number of research studies point to the health benefits in
controlling and reducing sugar consumption — the FDA now recommends sugar make up no more
than ten percent of total calories consumed per day — there is a difference between sugars that occur naturally in foods and those that do not, like those in a piece of dried fruit, for example, versus the high
fructose syrup commonly added to soft drinks, sodas, and many processed foods.
«The researchers... found that «cortical
control areas» — broad swaths of gray matter that surrounded the hypothalamus — responded quite differently to the infusion of
fructose than they did to glucose.
Fasting plasma glucose and insulin concentrations were reduced to
control concentrations, and plasma insulin concentrations during the OGTT were significantly lower
than those in the the rats fed
fructose only at all time - points.