"Sugars are considered simple because they are simple in ... starches and fiber take longer to digest because of their more complex structure, Martin says. This causes your blood sugar to rise ...

In fact, the average healthy adult, will clear simple sugars from their system within two hours, says Peter Mancuso, an associate professor of nutritional sciences at the University of Michigan.

A new study led by the University of Oxford has revealed that glycosyrin does this by mimicking galactose, a simple sugar found in ... glycosyrin has a unique structure among this group, and ...