Paul Saladino· MD
finding that dietary fructose is cleared by the small intestine so when you eat food it goes into your mouth down your esophagus into your stomach and then it goes into the small intestine which is divided into three main parts the duodenum the degenerate and the ilium the ilium moves into the colon through the ileocecal valve they say here clearance requires the fructose phosphorylating enzyme keto hexokinase also known as fructokinase and they say low doses of fructose are 90 cleared by the intestine with only trace fructose but extensive fructose derived glucose lactate and glycerate found in the portal blood that's the blood moving from the intestines to the liver through the superior mesenteric vein etc