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by hevi_jos 2491 days ago
It is not sugar per se. It is being able to concentrate and crystallize it and then eating it in a completely non natural way.

Fructose in nature , on fruit, has lots od fiber(celulose), that makes release of sugar in the bloodstream slow, that is Glycemic Index low.

Refined sugar on the other way, specially in dissolved water, like with milk, coffee or soda, release enormous amount of fructose in a very short amount of time.

In nature, only honey does that. Refined sugar was a luxury until 200 years ago.

US by the way produces the worst sugar of all, because it is not fructose, but something they could produce from corn, way cheaper than brown sugar that comes from tropical places.