Thanks! Can you suggest any healthier sugar substitutes?
There’s no such thing as a healthier sugar. They’re all the same molecules of monosaccharides and disaccharides. Fructose is fructose, glucose is glucose.
The human body metabolizes fructose molecules from agave exactly as it does from cane sugar or high fructose corn syrup. Likewise for a glucose molecule.
It’s nothing but deceptive marketing that one sugar is “healthier“.
I’ve taken a lot of human science classes; diabetes also runs in my family. If there is a medical reason like diabetes to restrict sugar, then certainly avoid it. But sugar is sugar, the body will metabolize them all the same.
Fructose is absorbed into the bloodstream from the intestine. But it can also be processed through the liver and converted to glucose. Any excess fructose can also be stored as fat. Deceptive marketers try to say agave sugar is healthy because it doesn’t raise your blood sugar like glucose. But that is the case of all fructose and glucose. And they failed to tell you that access fructose gets stored as fat.
Glucose go directly into the bloodstream; glucose is used as energy by the body. That’s why we often refer to sugar as a sugar rush. It’s the glucose at work.
Sucrose has to be broken down by the body before The fructose and glucose is used.