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Unlike glucose, fructose (sugar from fruit) is metabolized by the liver, and then converted to fat. Maybe fruit eaters were simply able to store more energy as
by xriddle 4y ago
Unlike glucose, fructose (sugar from fruit) is metabolized by the liver, and then converted to fat. Maybe fruit eaters were simply able to store more energy as fat which supplied the nutrition and/or extended survival required to evolve larger brains.
- pengaru 4y ago> fructose (sugar from fruit) For posterity; sucrose (table sugar) is composed of half fructose, half glucose.