Sucrose

Americans can achieve the Healthy People 2030 added sugars target with modest reductions in added sugars, according to the results of a study published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.

Table sugar may be less efficient in provoking a satiety response compared with oral glucose, and individual biological factors also influence peripheral hormone responses to sucrose vs. glucose consumption, study data show.

SAN DIEGO — Roughly half of patients who go on a low-FODMAP diet to treat diarrhea predominant irritable bowel syndrome do not respond to the change in diet. According to data presented at Digestive Disease Week, many of those patients could have a genetic variant that causes a deficiency of the sucrase-isomaltase enzyme.