A diabetic patient is advised to take sugar free saccharine not glucose or sucrose. It is well known that saccharine is non-nutritive sweetener but has been the center of several controversies regarding potential toxic effects. For sugar taste purpose, can we give L-glucose (one of the enantiomeric forms of glucose) to diabetic because it is also non-nutritive and not digested by our body but D-glucose is digested.
Chinedum Nwankwo
It depends if humans possess the gene that code for racemization of L to D glucose if not I think it's OK.
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Entedhar Sarhat
L-glucose tastes exactly the same, but it isn’t metabolised the same way, so it won’t spike blood glucose levels.
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