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by shorts_theory 482 days ago
You may be interested in the glycemic index [1] which represents how much a particular food causes your blood sugar to spike compared to pure sugar. Based on a cursory search, the GI for an apple is somewhere in the 30s which is way less than a candy bar which can be 70+.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glycemic_index