natural sugar vs. refined sugar
Question
Are the natural sugars found in fruits healthier than refined sugar or fructose corn syrup?
Dear James,
It sounds like what you are asking is whether fruit sugar is better than cane sugar. The answer is no.
Once you ingest sugar, whether it's fructose (fruit sugar), sucrose (table sugar), or corn syrup, your body treats it all alike. Even starchy foods (potatoes, bread, pasta) break down after digestion to yield sugars. Your liver converts all sugars ultimately to glucose, the preferred source of fuel (energy) for most of the body's cells.
Cane sugar has to be processed to make it into grains, since we cannot use chunks of sugar cane to cook, bake, etc. It's not necessarily a bad thing to process a food.
That said, eating fruits can be better for you than eating sugary foods because of the nutrients they provide: you get fiber in fresh fruits, vitamins, and antioxidants that aren't found in sweets!
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