Health Claims

If you take the sourness out of kiwi, it doesn't help control blood sugar as well—about half as much—when people eat it with a starchy meal.

Eating whole kiwifruit slows down how fast your body absorbs nutrients because of the fiber and natural acids in it — like your gut takes more time to process food after eating a kiwi.

Eating kiwifruit can help keep your blood sugar from spiking after a starchy meal, thanks to its fiber and natural acids — each cuts the sugar peak by about 30% on their own.

Eating a whole kiwi with a starchy meal like pasta or rice can cut your blood sugar spike in half and reduce the overall rise in blood sugar by over 40%, thanks to the fiber and natural acids in the fruit slowing down how fast sugar gets into your bloodstream.

Eating ultra-processed foods like sugary snacks and fast food can lead to fat building up in your liver because they're easy to overeat and your body absorbs them too quickly.

Drinking smoothies with lots of sugar from fruit but no fiber can flood your liver with sugar and might be one of the worst ways to eat fructose for your metabolism.

Cutting out fructose from your diet for just 9 days can lower fat in your liver, even if you don’t lose weight — especially if you’re overweight and usually eat a lot of sugar.

Too much fructose might damage your gut, letting harmful stuff leak into your body and cause liver inflammation, making fatty liver worse.

Eating too many sugary or starchy foods and too many calories can make your body less responsive to insulin, which in turn can cause fat to build up in your liver and lead to a condition called fatty liver disease—even if you don’t drink alcohol.

Drinking fruit juice means your body gets sugar (fructose) really fast because it's missing the fiber found in whole fruit, and this can overload your gut and send more sugar to your liver than eating the actual fruit.

Eating a lot of fructose for just one week might pack more fat into your liver and make it harder for your body to respond to insulin, even if you're otherwise healthy.

Fructose in your diet doesn't make you feel full the way other sugars might because it doesn't trigger the right hunger hormones, so you might end up eating more than you need.

Your gut handles small amounts of fructose just fine, but when you eat too much, it gets overwhelmed and lets the extra pass through to your liver.

Eating too much fructose, like from sugary drinks, makes your liver turn it into fat, which can build up and lead to fatty liver disease—even if you don't drink alcohol.

In normal-weight women, eating fructose instead of the same amount of glucose might make them feel less full and more likely to eat more, because it changes key hunger and fullness hormones in the body.

Drinking sugary drinks with fructose (like in soda) can make fat levels in the blood go up more than drinks with regular sugar, even in women who aren’t overweight.

For normal-weight women, eating meals sweetened with fructose doesn’t lower hunger hormone levels as much as glucose-sweetened meals, so they might feel hungrier afterward.

Drinking sugary drinks with fructose — even when not overweight — might lower a key fullness hormone in women more than drinking the same amount of glucose, which could mess with the brain’s ability to feel full.

If normal-weight women drink sugary drinks with fructose instead of glucose—making up 30% of their daily calories—it might cut their insulin response after meals by 65%, because fructose doesn’t trigger insulin like glucose does, which could affect how the body senses fullness or burns energy.

Even if Chinese adults don’t eat a lot of added sugar, the more they consume, the higher their chances of developing fatty liver disease — so even moderate amounts might not be safe for this group.

If Chinese adults eat just 5 more grams of added sugar every day — like a little extra in their drinks or snacks — they may have a slightly higher chance of getting fatty liver disease over time.

In Chinese adults, only sugary soft drinks—not desserts, yogurt, or candy—are linked to a higher risk of fatty liver disease.

Drinking more sugary drinks like soda might raise your risk of fatty liver disease by 20% if you're a Chinese adult, but eating sugar in solid foods doesn't seem to have the same effect — so how sugary stuff is delivered could matter for your liver.

If Chinese adults eat a lot of added sugar, they’re more likely to develop fatty liver disease — especially if they’re in the top group of sugar eaters, who have an 18% higher risk than those who eat the least.