eli5: Sugars are carbs. What is different about sugar that requires it to be listed separately on a nutritionql label?

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eli5: Sugars are carbs. What is different about sugar that requires it to be listed separately on a nutritionql label?

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Sugar is made up of glucose and fructose. Fructose can only be processed by the liver, while the whole body can utilize glucose.

Carbs are long chains of glucose only and when digested, they are only converted to glucose.

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