Supposedly it takes anywhere from 30 minutes to 4 hours to digest food(depending on what you’re eating) so why does sugar give you an almost instantaneous surge of energy?

Question

Does it absorb straight away? Could it be the dopamine rush?

In: Biology

Answer 1

Sugar doesn’t give you an instantaneous surge of energy. There are millions of parents in the country who believe that eating a sugary treat will make their kids hyperactive, but the science says that this simply isn’t the case. However, if parents repeatedly tell their kids that sugar will make them hyperactive, then there might be a placebo effect where the kids act hyperactive because they know they’ve eaten sugar.