Captain_Coconut
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I am a little confused. If one were to look purely at the health benefit of the sugar content of fruit sugar vs white table sugar, and we disregard the other enzymes and minerals in fruit.... I do not see where there is an advantage to consuming fruit sugars vs table sugar (sucrose). As the content seems so nearly identical to me.... Sucrose is a disaccharide of 50% glucose and 50% fructose, where as something like orange juice has roughly 42% sucrose, 28% glucose, and 30% fructose.... the ratio of the sugars is nearly identical to the amount of glucose and fructose in sucrose....
Is there a health advantage to fruit in that it contains the monosaccharides form along with the disaccharide?
From the reading of RP that I have done, I see the value of fructose over glucose referenced often, and also have the impression now that he prefers fruit sugar to pure sucrose... but I haven't exactly figured out why that is. I can understand the benefits of sucrose or fruit sugars over starch,,, however sucrose vs fruit is where I get lost..... Please help me understand what I am missing.
Is there a health advantage to fruit in that it contains the monosaccharides form along with the disaccharide?
From the reading of RP that I have done, I see the value of fructose over glucose referenced often, and also have the impression now that he prefers fruit sugar to pure sucrose... but I haven't exactly figured out why that is. I can understand the benefits of sucrose or fruit sugars over starch,,, however sucrose vs fruit is where I get lost..... Please help me understand what I am missing.