🍭 SUGAR SHOWDOWN: Sucrose vs Fructose 🍯

Know your sweet stuff — because not all sugar is created equal.

🧪 SUCROSE = Glucose + Fructose

✨ Think: basic table sugar

🧠 Used by every cell (thanks to the glucose)

📍Found in: table sugar, fruit, veg, honey, maple syrup

⚖️ Digested into glucose + fructose before absorption

🧪 FRUCTOSE = Solo Sugar (and a bit of a diva)

🔥 Sweeter than glucose

💥 Processed almost entirely in the liver

🚨 Excess = insulin resistance, belly fat, fatty liver

📍Found in: fruit, honey, agave, high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS = red flag 🚩)

🍎 Whole Fruit ≠ Soda

✅ In fruit: Fructose is slowed by fiber + antioxidants

❌ In processed foods: Fructose hits your liver like a freight train

👑 WELLNESS WISDOM:

You’re not avoiding sugar, you’re choosing smarter sources

👉 Choose fruit over fruit juice, whole foods over HFCS (High Fructose Corn Syrup), and real over refined

Here's your cheat sheet :

🍩 1. Coca-Cola (Classic Can)

• Sugar type: High-Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS) (mostly fructose + glucose)

• 🚨 Liquid sugar bomb — spikes blood sugar + loads liver with fructose.

  
  

🍦 2. Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream

• Sugar type: Sucrose (table sugar) + sometimes HFCS

• 🍬 Found in: ice cream base + cookie/candy chunks

• ❗ Watch for hidden sugar combos.

  
  

🥣 3. Kellogg’s Frosted Flakes

• Sugar type: Sucrose

• 🥄 Found in: coating of flakes

• 🍭 Up to 12g sugar per serving — and that’s before milk.

  
  

🍞 4. Wonder Bread (White Bread)

• Sugar type: Sucrose or HFCS

• 🍞 Found in: dough for sweetness + browning

• 👀 Even “plain” bread can sneak in sugars.

  
  

🍫 5. Snickers Bar

• Sugar type: Sucrose + HFCS + glucose syrup

• 🍯 Found in: nougat, caramel, and chocolate

• 🚫 Triple hit: fast absorption + addictive bliss point.

  
  

🧃 6. Capri Sun (Fruit Punch)

• Sugar type: Fructose + Glucose + Sucrose

• 🍓 Found in: fruit concentrates + added sweeteners

• ❗ Marketed as “juice” but often more sugar than soda.

  
  

🥤 7. Red Bull Energy Drink

• Sugar type: Sucrose + Glucose

• ⚡ Found in: energy blend

• 🧠 Sugar + caffeine = short-term buzz, long-term crash.

  
  

🥫 8. Heinz Ketchup

• Sugar type: HFCS or Sucrose (varies by region)

• 🍅 Found in: tomato base (surprise!)

• 💡 1 tablespoon = ~1 teaspoon of sugar.

  
  

🍪 9. Oreos

• Sugar type: Sucrose + HFCS

• 🖤 Found in: cookie and cream filling

• ❗ One cookie = ~4.5g sugar. Who eats just one?

  
  

🥛 10. Flavored Yogurt (e.g., Yoplait Strawberry)

• Sugar type: Sucrose + Fructose (fruit concentrate)

• 🥄 Found in: yogurt base + fruit syrup

• 😱 Often 20g+ sugar in a small cup.

  
  

💡 Bonus Tip :

👉 Read labels for:

• Ingredients like: glucose syrup, HFCS, cane sugar, fruit juice concentrate

• Words ending in “-ose” = likely sugar