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by ckelly 3476 days ago
tl;dr Yes
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Seems to be a rare instance that violates Betteridge's Law.
It's not true, sugar is not worse for you than white bread. White bread has a higher glycemic index than sugar.

Sugar does have a lot of fructose in it, but fruits have higher fructose content because they have less glucose.

Reality, turns out, is more complicated than black and white.

Probably depends on your white bread. My understanding is that any glycemic delta in white bread is primarily a function of the fiber. White bread without fiber is, to a first approximation, sugar.
White bread is just syntactic sugar for simpler sugars, and destructures into them in your gut.
So far as i know, the same is true of sucrose. Only simple sugars pass into the bloodstream.
A lot of white bread has actual sugar or high-fructose corn syrup in it as an ingredient. How much of that is to start the yeast and how much is for taste varies by brand.

Whole-grain/white can be misleading as far a sugar goes. I've had whole-grain brands that were so sweet that I couldn't stand to use them for sandwiches.

> White bread has a higher glycemic index than sugar.

Doesn't seem to be so: http://nutritiondata.self.com/topics/glycemic-index

Your link has bread at 70 and sugar at 68. QED
I believe I read a "study" recently where a news headline analysis found that roughly a third of question-headlines were "yes", the other two thirds? "No" and "Maybe"

Turns out Betteridge's law is just something snarky Internet people say.

For further reference (as it seems I've been downvoted possibly for my own snark on this one) - since I can no longer edit the original comment, here are some references

This appears to be the one I recall: http://calmerthanyouare.org/2015/03/19/betteridges-law.html

My numbers were off it's actually 46% "non-polar", 20% "yes", 16% "maybe" and, 15% no

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9232419

Additionally there was a publication in a statistical journal which also discussed the "phenomenon" http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11192-016-2030-2 which also found that it wasn't a factual assertion (in academic papers).

Anyways - if the downvote was for something other than my own snark I'd love to hear what it was.

Apologies for coming off as a jerk.