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Why does fruits with similar Glycemic Load have different recommendations?

JAT1 said:
This puzzles me. Apples are my go-to when my sugar drops too low and within minutes my blood sugar meter reading starts to go up.
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I presume the apples you like are sweet. Have you tried using cookers instead? or Crabapples? I suspect tart apples are less effective at treating hypo's. However, no fruit is 100% fructose at any time, and it is the ratios that change as conversion proceeds.
 
JAT1 said:
This puzzles me. Apples are my go-to when my sugar drops too low and within minutes my blood sugar meter reading starts to go up.
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So all that means is apples have glucose as well as fructose. Glucose hits the blood at the time. Fructose is stored up around the liver (when in excess) and affects us slowly over time. Type 2 are far more prone to non alcoholic fatty liver than type 1 as ours is a metabolic disease rather than an auto immune one. It so complicated that they have the same name but such different origins.
 
Thank you everyone for your responses! The bottom line I can conclude from your answers is that glycemic Index/Load isn't as useful as I thought it was.
 
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