Fructose can be converted to liver glycogen, potentially allowing more glucose to be available for muscles.

“the explanation was by providing some fructose what you're doing is you're kind of satiating the liver's need for glucose and so that glucose that does come in from sucrose can then kind of just bypass the liver and be available for muscle whereas if you're getting pure glucose the liver is going to start picking things off”

“if your liver is glycogen depleted for instance if you're a football player three hours on the gridiron and you have depleted your glycogen stores from your liver and you consume a say energy drink or sports drink you will replete your glycogen faster it will do that I won't argue that the reason being”