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Crystalline Fructose 379<br />

mal subjects, individuals with impaired glucose tolerance, and patients with noninsulin-dependent<br />

diabetes mellitus (24). Figures 4 and 5 illustrate these comparative<br />

effects.<br />

Increased awareness of the harmful side effects of diabetes and the necessity<br />

for keeping blood sugar levels of diabetic patients close to normal without<br />

inducing severe hypoglycemia have led diabetologists and food technologists to<br />

renew investigations into the use of fructose as a preferred sweetener for diabetic<br />

Figure 4 Comparison of glucose, insulin, and glucagon responses to oral sucrose versus<br />

oral fructose (OSTT oral sucrose tolerance test; OFTT oral fructose tolerance test).

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