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Sugar's sneaky twin — sweeter than glucose, but your liver processes it like booze.
means A simple sugar found naturally in fruit and honey, and used industrially as a sweetener in many processed foods and drinks.
from From Latin 'fructus' (fruit) plus the chemistry suffix '-ose' used to name sugars — the same ending you see in glucose, sucrose, and lactose. The name was coined in the 19th century as chemists began classifying sugars by molecular structure, with 'fructose' simply meaning 'fruit sugar.'
- metabolism path
- goes straight to liver, unlike glucose
- sweetness rank
- sweetest natural sugar known
- found in
- fruit, honey, and suspiciously many sodas
- overload effect
- excess converts directly to fat