Robert Lustig: Why Fructose’s Reactive Form Fuels the Maillard Reaction More Than Glucose #sugar
9 Feb 2025 · 1 min

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A short segment of a YouTube lecture by Robert Lustig explaining structural differences between glucose and fructose. Lustig contrasts glucose’s six-membered ring (predominantly ring form at physiological pH/temperature) with fructose’s five-membered ring and greater ring strain, highlighting reasons fructose adopts more reactive/linear conformations.










