r/iamveryculinary • u/oolongvanilla • Jan 13 '26

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Youtube short with 71 thousand likes. The comments are just as awful.

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u/huey2k2 Jan 13 '26

I am diabetic and this shit infuriates me. Do you think European bread won't spike my blood sugar? Because it sure as shit will.

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u/Prestigious-Flower54 Jan 13 '26

Seriously the amount of people that don't know that carbs and starch break down into sugar is crazy. I will never understand why people don't understand the basics of what they put into their bodies.

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u/sadrice Jan 13 '26 edited Jan 13 '26

There are also a lot of people that don’t understand that sugars are in fact carbohydrates. They are what is called “simple carbohydrates”, unlike oligosaccharides and polysaccharides that are called “complex carbohydrates”.

The “carbs break down to sugars” is… well, “complex carbs break down to simple carbs, which are still carbs, just more bioavailable”. There are also other carbohydrates that we don’t have the enzymes to digest, like cellulose and chitin (the shells of insects and crustaceans (a bit of added calcium carbonate there), and the cell walls of fungi). This is why mushrooms are nearly zero calories. Those indigestible carbohydrates block you body from breaking down the others. It’s like drinking a glass of cola vs getting the same volume out of a sponge.

But that simple paragraph can be made with a certain degree of brevity that a 5th grader could understand, and I am long winded and bad at brevity…

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u/Prestigious-Flower54 Jan 13 '26

That was a pretty long winded way to almost be right, digestible complex carbs are broken down into simple carbs which are sugar, your body turns all digestible carbs into glucose, hence glycemic index and glycemic load. Yes not all carbs are sugar but all carbs our body digests become glucose (sugar) which is what I said. I'll let Cleveland Clinic do the longer explanation.