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Default Fully ripe pineapple vs. barely ripe pineapple

Manda Ruby > wrote:

>Since sucrose and fructose will be converted to glucose in the body,
>regardless of the pineapple one eats, one would end up getting the
>same amount of sugar (the end type, i.e. glucose) for the same size of
>serving, right?


Yes. But the different metabolic pathways may have some slightly
different influence, especially on people with certain disease
conditions.

Steve