[iopq]

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.

[kurttheviking]

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.

[kazinator]

White bread is just syntactic sugar for simpler sugars, and destructures into them in your gut.

[analog31]

So far as i know, the same is true of sucrose. Only simple sugars pass into the bloodstream.

[jstewartmobile]

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.

[insulanian]

> White bread has a higher glycemic index than sugar.

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

[iopq]

Your link has bread at 70 and sugar at 68. QED