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7 stories for“fruit juice diabetes”
Fruit contains sugar, so the advice writes itself and it is wrong. The relevant distinction is not sweet versus not sweet. It is whether the sugar is still inside a structure that has to be dismantled before it can be absorbed.
Aug 13, 2026
Liquid sugar arrives faster than any solid food, does almost nothing to make you feel full, and is invisible in the mental accounting people do about their diet. Four cups of sweet karak is a dessert nobody counted.
Aug 17, 2026
WHO guidance targets free sugars, not all sugar. The distinction changes how a bowl of cereal or a smoothie should be judged.
Sep 10, 2024
Dates are sweet, so the assumption is that people with diabetes should avoid them. A study of Fara'd, Lulu, Bo ma'an, Dabbas and Khalas found low glycaemic indices and no significant glucose excursions in the diabetic group.
Aug 12, 2026
A product can be free of sugar, full of refined flour, sweetened with something that still raises glucose, and carry more fat and calories than the version it replaced. Regulators in Europe eventually stopped allowing a diabetic food category altogether.
Aug 19, 2026
Most adults eat about half the fibre they need. The gap matters more than dieters realise, and closing it is not about bran.
May 22, 2024
Front-of-pack claims like 'low fat' or 'natural' are not lies, but they are not the whole story. Here is what to check instead.
Feb 14, 2024
