I am looking at nutritional information for fruits, and they all have sugar in them. Is this the same kind of sugar they put in candy or drinks, and are there any foods that don't contain sugar, because sugar is bad?

Baloo55th

There are different sugars. Fructose, as its name suggests, is a fruit sugar in origin. Dextrose and glucose are two more, and then there's lactose - a milk sugar. Yes, there are foods that don't contain sugar - but sugar isn't bad in itself. Too much of it is, if you're not burning it up and keeping your teeth clean as well. Don't worry about the sugar in fruit. You should eat plenty of fruit and lightly cooked vegetables - unless you follow the old Inuit diet of very lightly cooked or raw meat, which will supply the vitamin C you need. And especially if you're a teenager, you need breakfast before school, otherwise low blood sugar level will make you feel limp around 11:00. Jan 22 05, 5:54 PM

MrsAce

If you're not having a problem with diabetes, I'm told that natural sugars are better for you. That would mean the type that is found in fruits and not added as an ingredient. Jan 23 05, 12:27 AM

dman57

Fructose differs from table sugar by how it is absorbed / digested. Fructose needs more of a digestive process to turn it into Glucose which is the fuel we depend on. Sugar is much faster at absorbsion and can enter the blood stream almost instantaneously. The speed is a factor for a Diabetic when it is needed. Too much sugar causes fast rise in Glucose and can affect some people. Fructose gradually rises the Glucose levels to a point where getting hyperactive is not an issue, unlike sugar. A moderate amount of sugars is of no harm. It is OK to eat a piece of cake just not the whole cake! Jan 23 05, 11:36 AM