Blood-Sugar Response of Normal Adults to Dextrose, Sucrose, and Liquid Glucose

Sugars in the Blood and Urine of Children Following the Ingestion of Disaccharides

“…2 show that the blood sugar level had risen by 30 % in as short a time as five minutes after the ingestion of sucrose and lactose by each group of four children. Rabinowitch (1945), Rabinowitch andMountford (1947) andDodds et al (1959) have also demonstrated the rapid rise in blood sugar following sucrose administration and it has now been shown that an equally rapid rise of blood sugar occurs after lactose ingestion. Since sugars are not absorbed to any appreciable degree from the stomach (Long, 1947) and there is no evidence that disaccharides can be hydrolysed proximal to the small bowel, it is indeed remarkable how rapidly sucrose and lactose pass into the small intestine, are hydrolysed, absorbed and reach the systemic circulation.…”

“…The shape of a blood sugar curve is to some extent dependent upon the frequency of the blood sugar estimations, and it is very possible that the true 'peaks' of the sucrose and maltose curves might have been shown to have been between 15 and 30 minutes if more frequent blood samples had been obtained. Dodds, Fairweather, Miller and Rose (1959) recently commented upon this feature and showed that the standard method of performing a glucose tolerance test, in which samples of blood taken fasting and at 30, 60, 90 and 120 minutes, may sometimes show an abnormally flat curve when in fact a more normal type of response is demonstrated if additional samples of blood are taken between 15 and 30 minutes. Table 7 and Fig.…”

Abstracts of Communications

“…After 2 h the animal was killed, and blood, liver and depot-fat samples removed. The triglyceride (Eggstein & Kreutz, 1966) When glucose syrup itself is ingested, the initial rate of absorption is quicker than with dextrose or sucrose (Dodds, Fairweather, Miller & Rose, 1959 …”