Shocking Truth: Plain White Bread Spikes Blood Sugar Higher Than Table Sugar Itself

Shocking Truth: Plain White Bread Spikes Blood Sugar Higher Than Table Sugar Itself

A single slice of white sandwich bread can raise blood glucose faster and higher than a spoonful of table sugar—a counterintuitive finding backed by decades of glycemic index research. The culprit isn’t sweetness but molecular structure: refined flour is nearly pure glucose chains with no fiber buffer, unlike sugar’s fructose component. Understanding this changes everything about how we think of “wholesome” carbohydrates.