Is all sugar equally bad? If not, what makes the sugar in fruit different?

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Is all sugar equally bad? If not, what makes the sugar in fruit different?

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Answer 1

“Sugar” is, in biological terms, actually fairly broad. Different sugars are processed by the body differently, which leads to differences in perception about “bad” and “good” sugar.

In reality, sugars are all carbohydrates. There’s two main kinds: monosaccharides and disasaccherides. The latter are actually two bonded molecules of the simpler form. These are the “bad” sugars- like sucrose, while the “simple” sugars found in fruit is a monosaccheride like fructose. That said, many fruits contain disaccherides like sucrose and maltose, so one major reason they’re considered “good” is that there’s simply less sugar overall in a piece of fruit than in a can of soda.