Differences in Blood Sugar Response After Giving Cane Sugar and Palm Sugar on Submaximal Physical Activity: a Literature Study

Submaximal physical activity is an activity with heavy loads that affect the cardiovascular system, fat levels and increased muscle strength that requires a lot of energy with the aim of improving physical performance capabilities. In order for this goal to be achieved, adequate carbohydrate intake is needed before doing physical activity (pre-game meal) and one of the sources of carbohydrates that are generally used as pre-game meals is cane sugar or sucrose whose molecules consist of 50% fructose and 50% glucose. The literature search method was carried out on the Google Scholar and Survey Gate databases with the keywords "cane sugar", "palm sugar", "blood sugar" and "submaximal physical activity" limited to the last 15 years of publication. Of the 120 articles identified, 4 articles met the inclusion criteria for in-depth analysis.