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fast acting sugars

are you wanting fast acting sugars or avoiding them ?

I think it is fast acting

Kellogg's Fruit Winders Strawberry :
Nutrition Facts
Ingredients:
Fruit (70%) (Pear Puree from Concentrate, Strawberry Puree from Concentrate {23%}), Glucose Syrup, Maltodextrin, Sugar, Vegetable Oil (Palm), Gelling Agent (Pectin), Emulsifiers (Mono and Diglycerides of Fatty Acids), Natural Flavouring, Elderberry Juice Concentrate, Citric Acid, Acidity Regulator (Sodium Citrate), Antioxidant (Ascorbic Acid), Malic Acid.
 
I am just learning about all this so I am not qualified to provide an answer. However,
If you google, Fruit Winders, the following article comes up in today's Telegraph.co.uk
Healthy snacks 'contain more sugar than ice cream
Hope this helps.
 
Yeah, I fancy they are pretty loaded..
Did this teacher give any reason for the "intervention" with the sweet??
 
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It's glucose that rises your blood sugar, so any product that constain raw glucose are considered as fast acting sugar. Kellogs fruit winders however are made from sucrose, so your body will use some time to break down the sucrose to glucose and fructose.

On the other hand, slow acting sugars are food made with sucrose, lactose, maltose or any other disaccaride of sugar (all non-raw glucose) and constaining high amounts of fat. The more fat, the slower your bg would rise.

So Kellogs fruit winders aren't the slowest acting sugar out there, in fact it will rise the blood sugar quick enough because it is mainly made out of pure sugar, but the fastest acting sugars out there are from real fruits, natural products like honey, or oral glucose tablets that are bought at the drug store.,
 
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