Sugar: Plant, Blood, Milk

Fructose

• in all plant sugar
  • fruit
  • vegetables
• known as belly fat
  • permanent fat
• Binds to body quikcly as fat
  • 7 times fater than glucose
  • more fat forming
  • stays as fat
• monosaccharide

Glucose

• in all major carbohydrates
  • starch
  • table sugar
  • etc.
• known as
  • blood sugar
  • grape sugar
• primary and preferred energy source of the body.
  • Starch contains glucose.
  • converts from fat to energy
• aldo-hexose
• monosaccharide