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Q: Fructose Malabsorption and Hypoglycemia
asked by: Niklas89 on June 8th, 2009
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I have read somewhere but don't remember where, that Fructose Malasorption might cause Reactive Hypoglycemia or at least excerbate it. What I have noticed is that tend to reach more negatively to fruits than to starches, even if starches have an high GL and GI.

Also I checked what foods are higher in fructose than glucose and they happen to be the foods I react the worst to: apples, pears, watermelon, fruit juices, honey.

Honey is a food which always had extremely negative effects, more than sucrose.
And guess what? Honey has more fructose than sucrose. Onions have a bad effect on my blood sugar and they're the reason why I reacted very badly to bunless burgers. Onions too are very high in fructose.

Can anyone please tell me more about fructose malabsorption and its relation with reactive hypoglycemia and the difference from hereditary fructose intolerance?


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replied on July 18th, 2009
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The reason the foods higher in fructose than glucose (like pears, etc.) cause such reaction is it is the fructose:glucose ratio which determines if you are able to absorb the fructose. The fructose globs on to the glucose allowing it to be absorbed. Onions are so problematic because they are a polyol, bad stuff for an FMer.
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