[Sca-cooks] Left=hand sugar

[Randy Goldberg MD]

> Does the body absorb glucose more readily (faster) than fructose?
It's,
> as you state, 'absorbed unchanged' and is the sugar of choice to treat
> emergency hypoglycemia. How does the absorption of fructose differ
from
> glucose, once they are both in the bloodstream? And would there be any
> noticeable difference, especially in time, between eating a food high
in
> sucrose/glucose and one high in fructose?

It's not absorbed faster, but it is used faster. Fructose has to be
enzymatically manipulated before it can be inserted into the metabolic
pathway; glucose does not. Furthermore, your brain lacks the enzymes to
utilize fructose; the only sugar neurons can use is glucose.