This article provides insights on how to recognize the potatoes that are bad and should not be eaten. It also provides optimal buying and storage tips. Even after harvesting, potatoes…
The currently used classifications of carbohydrates are not very useful in a nutritional sense. While “complex vs simple carbs” is a useless classification in a nutritional sense, the refined vs…
This article refers to dried fruit with no sugar additives. Any candied fruit belong to the “sugars” category. The healthiness of dried fruit is not as “black and white” as…
Mainstream health professionals and current dietary government guidelines recommend a restriction of two servings of fruit per day. There are concerns that the natural sugar in fruit may be detrimental…
In the nutritional sense, it is more useful to refer to carbohydrates as refined or unrefined rather than simple or complex. (read more..) The distinction between refined carbohydrates and unrefined…
High fructose diet is detrimental to our health, especially when its main sources are sweetened beverages, fruit juices and foods with added sugar. Although eating whole fruit is not known…
The idea that a fruit juice is healthy was born from misinterpreting the dietary guidelines that recommend 2 whole fruit per day. Fruit juice companies saw the opportunity to market…
In short, fructose is bad for you if consumed in a concentrated form and in high amounts, but not as a part of whole fruit. For instance, foods high in…
Foods high in fructose, such as refined sugar products, sugar based sodas (soft drinks) and fruit juices, when consumed frequently, have harmful effects in most people. High fructose consumption is…
The category of simple and complex carbohydrates can refer to a biochemical definition or have a nutritional context. The biochemical definition refers to a simple difference of the molecular structure…
There are two ways to measure how carbohydrates raise blood glucose: The glucose component of dietary carbohydrate has the greatest effect on the blood glucose and is used as the…
Before going through the differences, it is important to note that there are some common characteristics of glucose and fructose, exerting varied effects on the body, and undergoing different metabolic…
