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I always throw my hands up when people mention refined vs unrefined sugar, there is practically no difference between the two except one has been extracted from

• ncmncm 5y ago
  There is a massive difference: sugar with fiber is digested completely differently from sugar without fiber. Without, it all goes straight into the bloodstream, and has to be processed immediately. If there is too much, the fructose gets processed to fat in the liver. Fructose has to be processed by the same pathway as alcohol, because the rest of the body doesn't know what it is. American children are getting cirrhosis like alcoholics now. The appetite system doesn't know about fructose: eating any amount fails to make you less hungry. With, much of it gets to the lower intestine, where it feeds gut bacteria, instead. They need it. We need them. What gets absorbed takes longer, resulting in much smaller swings of concentration of various blood chemicals.