"Sugar" on food labels

[Ron Ritzma]

On 14 May 2002 02:35:12 -0700, bgreenwood2000@yahoo.com
(Barbara) wrote:

>Also watch out for fructose - fruit sugar - as an added
>ingredient, because the general guideline is that it's fine
>in moderation, but not in excess. Rule of thumb - if you eat
>fructose only in its naturally occurring forms (in fruit, or
>as part of the sucrose naturally occurring in fruit), it's
>fine, but if you eat foods with added fructose, your intake
>will be too high for optimum health. That's one of the
>reasons for limiting intake of added sugar (sucrose) in the
>first place, because sucrose is made up of glucose and
>fructose.

But doesn't the "sugar" on food labels include all the "oses"?
(simple sugars, glucose/dextrose, maltose, lactose, etc.) If
true then you would have to both read the ingredients to know
which sugars they are talking about and of course which
disaccharides contain a fructose molecule.

For example, if a food item has 42 grams of sugar listed on
the label but the ingredients only say "dextrose" then eating
a serving of that food would be no different then eating a
serving of pasta or a potato.

Though in reality, "sugar" on food labels for most items is
mostly sucrose and "high fructose corn syrup".

>A high intake of frutose tends to adversely affect
>lipids, although I can't remember which component it
>raises or lowers.

Doesn't it raise triglycerides if liver glycogen is full?

--
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carrying the lard
|-- A_Mazzagazze@hotmail.com

[S. Peacock]

> But doesn't the "sugar" on food labels include all the
> "oses"? (simple sugars, glucose/dextrose, maltose, lactose,
> etc.) If true then you would have to both read the
> ingredients to know which sugars they are talking about and
> of course which disaccharides contain a fructose molecule.

I believe you will find that their reference to sugar is
'refined sugar' or fructose. For example, on one label I'm
looking at it specifies ingredients as:

water...., sugar, corn syrup, fructose, high fructose sugars,
..... dextrose.

Now is that a sugar bomb or what?

[Al Hephy]

S. Peacock <xpeacock@pacNOSPAMbell.net> wrote in message =
news:3CED6040.D018498D@pacNOSPAMbell.net...
>=20
> >=20
> > But doesn't the "sugar" on food labels include all the
> > "oses"? =
(simple
> > sugars, glucose/dextrose, maltose, lactose, etc.) If true
> > then you =
would
> > have to both read the ingredients to know which sugars
> > they are =
talking
> > about and of course which disaccharides contain a fructose
> > molecule.
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> I believe you will find that their reference to sugar is
> 'refined =
sugar'
> or fructose. For example, on one label I'm looking at it
> specifies ingredients as:
>=20
> water...., sugar, corn syrup, fructose, high fructose
> sugars, ..... dextrose.
>=20
> Now is that a sugar bomb or what?

Sure hope that's a candy bar you're looking at.....