Note that to avoid listing sugar as the first ingredient in their products, some sneaky food makers use
multiple types of sugar (e.g. honey, cane sugar, and brown rice syrup), each of which alone may be smaller in volume than the ingredient listed first (e.g. oats) even though taken together, sugar forms a far larger portion.
Also check for
multiple types of sugar, which is a sneaky way food companies make something supersweet without telegraphing it on the ingredients list.
Not exact matches
But that production stops after a meal, when insulin is released by the pancreas and performs its main task
of removing
sugar from the blood and shepherding the glucose to
multiple types of cells that absorb it for energy.
Now it exists in
multiple forms in most
of the prepared food available to us (even the
sugar - free options) and it perpetuates overall inflammation, dumps fat on our liver (non-alcoholic fatty liver disease); makes our cells resistant to the effects
of insulin (insulin resistant); and then gives us metabolic syndrome, abdominal obesity, cardiovascular disease and
type II diabetes.