eli5: Sugars are carbs. What is different about sugar that requires it to be listed separately on a nutritionql label?
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there are basically two kinds of carbs:
* Sugars: which are small, don’t need to be digested, and are absorbed into your bloodstream very quickly.
* complex carbs (mostly starch): which are long chains of sugars. They need to be digested to break the sugars apart, and that means they are absorbed gradually.
So if you eat sugars, your blood sugar levels will rise very fast, and if you eat starch, it will rise more gradually.
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