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To: be-baw

“The majority of carbohydrates found in garlic are fructose polymers known as fructans.”

So, where is the High Fructose Garlic Syrup?


3 posted on 09/25/2021 2:50:10 PM PDT by Fai Mao (I don't think we have enough telephone poles.)
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To: Fai Mao

High-fructose corn syrup (HCFS) seems like an unlikely villain, since HCFS is 55% fructose, 45% glucose, whereas cane sugar is 50% fructose and 50% glucose (molecularly bound, but separated before it even hits your stomach), and fruit sugar is 100% fructose.

But fructans are NOT digested into fructose from what this article seems to say. Some polymers are easily digested (starch), others are not (chitin, the exoskeleton of lobsters; or cellulose, also known as insoluble plant fiber.)


6 posted on 09/25/2021 2:56:22 PM PDT by dangus
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