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by natrius 5848 days ago
> Eat more apples, bananas, oranges and watermelons for calories, don't worry about the sugar, this is not sucrose.

Care to explain that? It sounds like a common misinterpretation of the "Sugar: The Bitter Truth" video that was floating around a while back. Most fruits have plenty of sucrose anyway.

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Fructose, which is in high abundance in fruits, is the sugar to avoid. Sucrose = Fructose + Glucose. So saying "don't worry about the sugar, this is not sucrose" is misleading. Glucose is the sugar that your body is designed to digest/process. The reason that fruits are better for you than sugary things is because the amount of fructose is smaller than in most other things, and most fruits contain a lot of fiber.