Endocrine Abstracts

Dietary guidelines in the UK and worldwide recommend reducing the quantity of free sugars in the diet. The consumption of foods high in free sugars can lead to postprandial hyperglycaemia and hyperinsulinemia, which have been implicated in the development of metabolic diseases including type 2 diabetes and obesity. Rare sugars (naturally occurring monosaccharides which hardly exist in nature) have been found to suppress the postprandial elevation in blood glucose and improve g...