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> An orange is 100% fructose

It is not:

https://fdc.nal.usda.gov/food-details/746771/nutrients

In fact an orange is a mixture of glucose, fructose, and sucrose (which itself is glucose and fructose). An orange actually looks surprisingly like table sugar in terms of the sugar types, although you are correct that the pulp / fiber / etc do mean that the response of our body is likely different.



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