KNES 437 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Glucose Syrup, Steak Sauce, Slurpee
10 Mar 2020
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Knes 437 lecture 14 carbohydrates & athletic performance. Foods cho rich: plant-based foods: starches, fruit & vegetables, including legumes (dried peas and beans have about 3:1 cho: protein content, sweets, candy, cookies, etc: refined, simple cho, athletic products, 1. Sports drinks: glucose, fructose, glucose-polymers (good source of electrolytes!: 2. Added sugars hfcs: the deadly sugar , fructose is found in most fruits (~5-6%), honey (30-40%) and in "table sugar" or sucrose (50%), hfcs contains. Juices, canned fruit, applesauce: 8 fake names for hfcs, 1. It is a combination of the gi (converted to a decimal) and grams of cho in a food. ); based on equal grams of cho, not based on average portion sizes that people eat. It takes 20-24 hours once you"ve had carbohydrates to store it in your muscles. Trained athletes store more muscle glycogen than untrained . If you are consuming only one type of sugar, 60 grams will saturate the transporters.
