While virtually absent in our diet a few hundred years ago, fructose has now become a major
constituent of our modern diet. Our main sources of fructose are sucrose from beet or cane …

The intake of added sugars, such as from table sugar (sucrose) and high-fructose corn syrup
has increased dramatically in the last hundred years and correlates closely with the rise in …

Abstract Background and Aim: Functional gastrointestinal symptoms are common and their
management is often a difficult clinical problem. The link between food intake and symptom …

Carbohydrates occur across a range of foods regularly consumed including grains such as
wheat and rye, vegetables, fruits, and legumes. Short-chain carbohydrates with chains of up …

There has been much concern regarding the role of dietary fructose in the development of
metabolic diseases. This concern arises from the continuous increase in fructose (and total …

Dietary fructose induces abdominal symptoms in patients with fructose malabsorption, but
there are no published guidelines on its dietary management. The objective was to …

Most humans, like other mammals, gradually lose the intestinal enzyme lactase after infancy
and with it the ability to digest lactose, the principle sugar in milk. At some point in prehistory …

Background. In a referral population of young children, excessive fruit juice consumption has
been reported to be a contributing factor in nonorganic failure to thrive. Objective. To …

The capacity to absorb fructose in 10 healthy adults was investigated by means of hydrogen
breath analysis. Fructose absorption was quantified with lactulose standards. Significant …

Fructose is found widely in the diet as a free hexose, as the disaccharide, sucrose and in a
polymerized form (fructans). Free fructose has limited absorption in the small intestine, with …