Carbohydrates of which sugars

[doctormeredithgrey]

Can someone explain the above - I know the blanket rule is that you view carbs as a whole but I've always been curious as to what the 'of which sugars' mean. Example:

Carbohydrates - 50g
of which sugars - 30g

Hazarding a guess, I would imagine that the 30g of sugar is simple sugars i.e. unhealthy and burns the fastest???

Carbs = starch and sugar
It's telling you the sugar content is 30g so starches will be 20g

And that sugar could be naturally occuring ones - eg lactose in milk, fructose in fruit - not necessarily unhealthy

@Blondie1984

And that sugar could be naturally occuring ones - eg lactose in milk, fructose in fruit - not necessarily unhealthy

All sugar in food is naturally occurring.

Hazarding a guess, I would imagine that the 30g of sugar is simple sugars i.e. unhealthy and burns the fastest???

Yes - that's spot on - starch is broken down into sugar in the body, but at a much slower rate than digesting free (simple) sugars. From a calorie perspective it makes no difference. From a blood health perspective, a high amount of simple sugars results in sudden spikes of blood glucose levels which when occurring frequently, is one of the causes of diabetes.