On: Irish Court Says Subway Bread Is Too Sugary to Be Called 'Bread'

[powersnail]

Very baffled second language speaker here. Terminologies regarding nutrients confuse me to no end.

Isn't carb an abbreviation of carbohydrate, which in turn is a synonym of saccharide?

How come fructose is a monosaccharide but not functionally a "carb"?

[akdor1154 → powersnail]

Not OP, but I think by "(not) functionally a carb" OP means "(not) processed as carb by your body".

Functionally => how it functions, how it interacts with something else, c.f. "functional testing" :) Unsure if this is nutritional terminology or just HN-reader terminology.

[powersnail → akdor1154]

That make sense, thanks!

[andy_ppp → powersnail]

Because your body processes fructose through a different potentially more damaging pathway than glucose. It’s a carb if you like but it’s the worst carb for you by a huge margin, especially when eaten without fibre.