Iamknot Does Sugar Impact Blood Glucose Levels More Than Sugar Alcohols? How Does Does Sugar Impact Blood Glucose Levels More Than Sugar Alcohols? Does Your Body Process Sugar Alcohols Differently From Sugar? Thanks, Iamknot..

[iamknot]

iamknot
Does Sugar Impact Blood Glucose Levels More Than Sugar Alcohols?
how does does sugar impact blood glucose levels more than sugar alcohols? does your body process sugar alcohols differently from sugar? thanks, iamknot..

[Old_Geezer]

According to Wikipedia sugar alcohols do not affect blood sugar levels. All new to me, I'm having problems visualising how something is a sugar and an alcohol at the same time. Surely the sugar has either converted into alcohol or it has not ?

[Peter Pedant]

Myt difficulty is now a sugar cant be an alcohol - Glucose has three -0H groups sticking out, which makes it an alcohol to me .

A basic sugar is anything in the form of C6H12O6 - but they can be joined onto each other - sucrose is Glucose-Fructose.

Glucose has a well, carbohydrate metabolism and Fructose has a different one. Refer to biochemistry text for details. Fructose for example does not need the glucose-door to get into a cell.
Some sugars are not metabolised ( xylose I think )

I think you bbuy a biochem text and start off at the chapter that says Catbohydrate Metab....I am not going to do this for you: this subject always paralysed me.

[Old_Geezer]

Well I never took chemistry, my schools stopped folk doing all sciences in order to make school life most boring, but I have made wine and brewed beer, and sugar went in, but alcohol came out !

[Sqad]

O_G.

Sugar is sugar and sugary alcohols are sugary alcohols.......chemically different.

The body acknowledges this and absorbs them from the gut at different rates........sugar rapidly and sugary alcohols more slowly.

That.small we need to know.

[pastafreak]

From The Mayo Clinic... see the last paragraph


Can I use artificial sweeteners if I have diabetes?

Answers from M. Regina Castro, M.D.
You can use most sugar substitutes if you have diabetes, including:

Saccharin (Sweet'N Low)
Aspartame (NutraSweet, Equal)
Acesulfame potassium (Sunett)
Sucralose (Splenda)
Stevia (Pure Via, Truvia)
Artificial sweeteners, or sugar substitutes, offer the sweetness of sugar without the calories. Artificial sweeteners are many times sweeter than sugar, so it takes a smaller amount to sweeten foods. This is why foods made with artificial sweeteners may have fewer calories than those made with sugar.

Sugar substitutes don't affect your blood sugar level. In fact, most artificial sweeteners are considered "free foods" — foods containing less than 20 calories and 5 grams or less of carbohydrates — because they don't count as calories or carbohydrates on a diabetes exchange. Remember, however, other ingredients in foods containing artificial sweeteners can still affect your blood sugar level.

Also, be cautious with sugar alcohols — including mannitol, sorbitol and xylitol. Sugar alcohols can increase your blood sugar level. And for some people, sugar alcohols may cause diarrhea.