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Message: <blockquote data-quote="phoenix" data-source="post: 949501" data-attributes="member: 12578">No 100g of bread has  46-50% carbohydrate, 100g of sugar has 100g of carbohydrate.  Half of the sugar in sucrose is glucose and half fructose but that still doesn't add up to more glucose. In fact starches are also broken down into a number of  different types of sugar. Here's a primer on sugars    <a href="http://healthyeating.sfgate.com/types-carbohydrates-turn-sugar-3322.html" target="_blank">http://healthyeating.sfgate.com/types-carbohydrates-turn-sugar-3322.html</a>If you ate 50g of sugar (sucrose) and 100g of bread  (both about 50g of carbs) then you would see a slightly greater amount of blood glucose with the bread over a period of 2 hours, though the initial spike could  actually be more rapid with the sucrose.The black squares are glucose, the back circles are white bread, the white triangles are sucrose and the black triangles are fructose[ATTACH=full]15807[/ATTACH]<a href="http://www.nature.com/ejcn/journal/v52/n12/pdf/1600666a.pdf?origin=publication_detail" target="_blank">http://www.nature.com/ejcn/journal/v52/n12/pdf/1600666a.pdf?origin=publication_detail</a>The  GI index site answers some questions about the GI in the FAQs <a href="http://www.glycemicindex.com/faqsList.php#1" target="_blank">http://www.glycemicindex.com/faqsList.php#1</a></blockquote>

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