Fructosa

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Hello, I use fruit sugar as a sweetner for tea and baking etc..
It is fructose basically but brand name Fructosa by Santiviri, does anyone have experience with it? Is it good or bad being T1D? Thanks

 

[Krystyna23040]

Hello, I use fruit sugar as a sweetner for tea and baking etc..
It is fructose basically but brand name Fructosa by Santiviri, does anyone have experience with it? Is it good or bad being T1D? Thanks

I have read that fructose is not good for T2D because it causes Fatty Liver and insulin resistance. My feeling is that a fatty liver and insulin resistance would make it more difficult to manage T1D.

Jason Fung says 'The liver metabolizes fructose into glucose, lactose and glycogen. There are no limitations on this system of metabolism for fructose. The more you eat, the more you metabolize. When the limited glycogen stores are full, the excess fructose is changed directly into liver fat through de novo lipogenesis. Fructose overfeeding can increase DNL five fold, and replacing glucose with a calorically equal amount of fructose increases liver fat by a massive 38% within only eight days. It is precisely this fatty liver is crucial to the development of insulin resistance '.