The CARB More Deadly than Sugar (SURPRISING)

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Dr. Eric Berg

Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 26 December 2023

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Today, we’re going to talk about the carbohydrate that’s more dangerous than sugar: maltodextrin.

Of all the ultra-processed food ingredients, I consider this one the worst.

Maltodextrin is GMO, refined, and highly processed. It can lead to belly fat, diabetes, and gut inflammation, yet it’s considered safe.

Even though maltodextrin is not a sugar and it’s not sweet, it behaves like sugar in the body. It’s also higher than sugar on the glycemic index.

Maltodextrin is an ingredient in many different products, from chips to seasonings, supplements, and infant formulas. It’s even in certain drinks like light beer, energy drinks, and sports drinks.

Because it’s not classified as a sugar, maltodextrin can also be added to sugar-free products even though it behaves like a sugar.

Maltodextrin is a filler ingredient, and there are loopholes that companies can use to legally add it to their products.

Other names for maltodextrin are dextrin, modified food starch, glucose syrup, corn starch, food starch, and corn syrup.

It’s crucial to start reading the ingredients in your products to avoid dangerous ingredients like maltodextrin.

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0:00.0	There's a carb more deadly, more dangerous than actual sugar, okay, that you need to know about.
0:06.4	And very unfortunately, you probably have been consuming this car for a very long time without knowing it.
0:12.1	And it's a little conflicting because it causes belly fat,
0:15.3	diabetes, and gut inflammation,
0:17.8	yet it's considered safe.
0:20.3	How could that be?
0:21.0	That doesn't make sense.
0:22.1	This carbohydrate is not a sugar, it's not sweet, yet it behaves like sugar, not just behaves like sugar, but way worse than sugar on the glycemic index. So if we take a look at this little index, right?
0:34.2	We have right here, table sugar, 65, right?
0:38.2	And then we go up to 100.
0:39.6	This is on the glycemic index.
0:41.4	That's glucose, right? A hundred is glucose the same as white
0:44.0	bread, you know, other type of refined carbohydrates. And the reason why glucose is 100 and table sugar
0:49.2	is 65 is because table sugar has glucose and fructose.
0:54.2	And fructose is lower on the glycemic index.
0:56.4	So it averages out to 65.
0:59.2	But look at this above glucose, 110 to 136.
1:04.2	That's where this ingredient is.
1:06.2	I want to see if you can guess what this is.
1:08.1	Go ahead and comment down below.
1:09.8	Okay, I'm going to give you some clues.
1:11.8	It's in chips, it's in crackers, it's in bread, pasta, cereals, infant formulas, soups,
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