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by pyre 5850 days ago
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.