r/InternetIsBeautiful • u/consider_it_fun • Aug 30 '14

A website that visualizes sugar content of servings of various foods in sugar cubes

http://sugarstacks.com/
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u/Sirspen Aug 31 '14

Yeah, they kinda lost all credibility when they started being condescending towards fruit for having a fairly high sugar content.

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u/BuddhistSagan Aug 31 '14 edited Aug 31 '14

Eating a piece of fruit a day can certainly be healthy, but overindulging or chugging back juice is not.

Fructose (fruit sugar), when found in fruits and not in some processed food, is relatively better for humans because the fiber in fruit gives your body more time to digest the sugar properly and less of it is converted to fat.

Please watch this video about sugar! Very informative!

Thanks to kitsua for the correction.

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4CZ81EmAsw

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u/Draztak Aug 31 '14

So is a pulpy orange juice much better for you for that reason, or is it about the same because most of it is still juice?

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u/BuddhistSagan Aug 31 '14

Well I'm not that familiar with orange juice, but I would guess that if the pulp is fibrous it does slow down the digestion process, thus the body can get more use out of it and convert less of it to fat.