Please Scroll Down to See Forums Below does anyone else use powdered sugar in a shake to spike their insulin levels after working out?
powdered sugar
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audiophyle
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Is there any problem with useing sugar in place of dextrose? Sugar is 100 on the gi scale i think.
audiophyle
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nevermind white sugar is about a 60 on the gi scale. time to get some dextrose. Anyone have a good source for cheap dextrose?
Ceebs said:
last semester in organic chem II one chapter was over sugars and my prof specifically said that powdered sugar was dextrose. thats why i was asking
You should not use Sugar, use dextrose. sugar takes longer to aborb than dextrose as it is made up of 2 glucose molecules bonded together, this means that the Sucrose (sugar) molecule needs to be split before it is used aslo suugar is made from differently oriented glucose molecules that aren't very good for you.
If sugar was a new product on the market today it wouldn't get FDA approval thats how shitty it is.
If sugar was a new product on the market today it wouldn't get FDA approval thats how shitty it is.
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djblaze111
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honey?
gabriel1475
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dextrose
so........is there any benifit to having dextrose right after a workout?
so........is there any benifit to having dextrose right after a workout?
juicedmullet said:
Powdered sugar is just pulvarized table sugar with some cornstarch added in. What he/she may have been referring to is that dextrose is a form of glucose produced from corn starch. So it's not the powdered sugar itself that does the trick, it's the cornstarch...and by that rationale, you could just eat corn starch out of the box. However, the functional utility of dextrose is rapid absorption post workout. By taking in corn starch (which will provide comparitively les dextrose), you are giving your body extra steps to go trhough before it can get to the dextrose. You will speed things up, and get substantially more dextrose, if you just use dextrose.
