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Re:Breakfast cereal is in long-term decline by avgcorrection on Sunday September 17, 2023 @02:21PM (#37547908)
Sugar is a subset of carbohydrates which is a macronutrient. But you don't need sugar specifically if you want carbs and in fact it is a bad carbo alternative unless you are doing some vigorous activity and need a little boost.

Personally though I eat a lot of it myself. Ideally I would only get maybe 15 grams of sugar a day, tops.

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Re:Breakfast cereal is in long-term decline by diogenes4 on Sunday September 17, 2023 @02:37PM (#37548046)
> But you don't need sugar specifically if you want carbs

That's what carbs are. Carbs are sugars. I don't see many people out here living off formaldehyde. If you eat bread, it's metabolized into sugars. If you eat potatoes, these are metabolized into sugars. I don't get the point.

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Re:Breakfast cereal is in long-term decline by scoofy on Sunday September 17, 2023 @03:00PM (#37548272)
“Sugar” is sucrose, which is fructose and glucose. We can use glucose as a nutrient… fructose is debatable.

“Sugars” covers a wide variety of more complex chemicals, from maltose to lactose.

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