I understand it turns to glucose but how much does it take? Like I understand they raise your glucose level but theres a points system and its not a 1:1 grams equals deciliters. ect.
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Depends on the sugar, really.
What you’re describing sounds like a glycemic index scale. It is a scale that assigns every food a number between 0-100 based on how high does the blood sugar rise 2 hours after eating that food. An arbitrary point was chosen so pure glucose get a 100 points. To my knowledge, the scale is arbitrary and having 100 points doesn’t translate to something like 100mmol/L increase of blood sugar or something like that.
We measure a glycemic index by giving a healthy person food which has 50g of carbs and the measure their bloor sugar spike after 2 hours. After a few days, we give them sugar which has the same 50g of carbs and again measure their sugar spike after 2 hours. Then we compare the spikes and because glucose is 100 by definition, we can asses the glycemic index of that other food in question.
Honestly, i don’t know if I’ve answered your question in a way you expected, so please ask further questions if I haven’t covered everything you wanted.
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