You may be tempted to swap sugar for artificial sweeteners, but these can damage your health even more
quickly than fructose.
Not exact matches
Whilst of course healthier
than a Mars bar, frequently consuming all of these «healthy» fruit based things — juices, smoothies, dried fruit bars, granolas — in addition to whole fruit itself, and you'll likely find your
fructose totals
quickly tally up to a potentially unhealthy level.
Additionally, it includes a lot less
fructose than other sweeteners, known to
quickly turn to fat in the body.
Since, fruit juice is high in
fructose (fruit sugar) and can cause blood sugar levels to rise
quickly, it's best for diabetics to drink fruit juice with a meal and avoid having more
than one small glass a day.
A small study published in The Journal of Nutrition suggested that
fructose may make people fatter by bypassing the body's regulation of sugars, which means it gets more
quickly converted to fat
than do other sugars.
And if you take that sugar in liquid form — soda or fruit juices — the
fructose and glucose will hit the liver more
quickly than if you consume them, say, in an apple (or several apples, to get what researchers would call the equivalent dose of sugar).