Irritable Bowel Syndrome Message Boards | Re: fructose sensitivity?

Fructose sensitivity or malabsorption is the inability of your gut to handle fructose that is excess compared to glucose.

White and brown sugar have equal amounts of fructose and glucose. There isn't any excess fructose. You can still use table sugar.

Fruits such as apples, pears, mangos, melons and their juices contain more fructose than glucose. Berries and their juices tend to contain more glucose than fructose. Other fruits that are okay for fructose sensitive individuals are kumquat, grapefruit, lemon, lime, mandarin, orange, tangelo, ripe banana, jackfruit, kiwi fruit, passion fruit, pineapple, rhubarb, tamarillo. Apricots, nectarines, peaches and plums are okay but the contain sorbitol which is a problem for some people.

The amount of excess fructose that an individual can handle varies. Some individuals can handle more than 50 grams while others like myself have difficulty with foods that contains 2 or so more grams of fructose than glucose.

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