I'm glad someone mentioned the carbs here – it gives me a good excuse to pipe in. Maltodextrin is a ludicrous oversimplification of carb intake. The carb intake in whole foods is ridiculously complex, given the ubiquity of the variety of carbohydrate in all of our foodstuff. Not only do you have to take into account the stuff that we directly metabolise, but all the stuff that the little bacteria that live in our gut like to eat too.
Experiments have been done with mannose to try and recover a genetic disorder where the bio-availability of mannose has been impaired. A kid was fed with mannose in what was assumed to be the right amount of the correct monosaccharide. Turns out he ends up having a toxic reaction to the mannose, even though it goes part-way to curing his particular disease.
I know researchers in this area that don't eat red meat because they're worried about the incorporation of particular sugars into their body that are not natively found in humans. I never really understood why I looked down on biology when I was younger. It's one of the most complex and intriguing problem spaces in the world, and well worth investing your time (on the order of decades) to try and figure something out.
Experiments have been done with mannose to try and recover a genetic disorder where the bio-availability of mannose has been impaired. A kid was fed with mannose in what was assumed to be the right amount of the correct monosaccharide. Turns out he ends up having a toxic reaction to the mannose, even though it goes part-way to curing his particular disease.
I know researchers in this area that don't eat red meat because they're worried about the incorporation of particular sugars into their body that are not natively found in humans. I never really understood why I looked down on biology when I was younger. It's one of the most complex and intriguing problem spaces in the world, and well worth investing your time (on the order of decades) to try and figure something out.