Paul Saladino· MD
fructose present in a food matrix will behave differently than fructose found in whole foods then fructose found in isolation excuse me
The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
fructose present in a food matrix will behave differently than fructose found in whole foods then fructose found in isolation excuse me
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the rest of the studies are left out which may show that fruit or fruit containing fructose fructose present in a food matrix actually has a different effect in human physiology
listen to last week's podcast on fructose and why fruit in a food matrix with fructose there is probably different than fructose and sucrose or processed sugars
is it my genetics or is it the fact that fructose and fruit is not the same as fructose and isolation
there's a lot of people who conflate studies looking at fructose and isolation and fructose in whole foods which is crazy to think about
i just think that fructose performs very differently in an informational matrix it's a little hand-wavy i know but we don't fully understand this nutrition but it appears to be the case fructose performs very differently in those matrices