Leek
Leeks are mild, sweet members of the Allium family with a delicate onion flavour. They provide fibre and sulfur compounds, plant compounds studied in laboratory research for their antioxidant activity. Slice and rinse them well to remove grit, then use leeks in soups (such as leek and potato), braises, tarts and gratins.
Polyols
SorbitolNot yet analysed
Source: Not yet analysed
What this means
This is leek's own sorbitol content, not a recipe amount. Sorbitol is a polyol — a type of sugar alcohol — calculated from two official food-composition databases, Germany's Bundeslebensmittelschlüssel (BLS 4.0) and the French Ciqual table. Recipes are evaluated separately against a 0.20 g threshold (a per-serving cutoff from Varney et al. 2017, Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, applied to one reference serving of the recipe) — an ingredient's own figure isn't directly comparable to that number, since a recipe combines several ingredients in different amounts. This describes the food, not a guarantee about how your body will respond to it.
Sugars
Per 100 g
Total fructose2 g
Excess fructose0.4 g
Source: Measured value (BLS 4.0)
What this means
These are leek's own fructose figures, not a recipe amount. Total fructose is how much fructose the food contains. Excess fructose is fructose minus glucose, counted only when positive, since glucose helps the body absorb fructose — it is the figure behind the "Low fructose" filter and the recipe figures. When measured, both come from two official food-composition databases, Germany's Bundeslebensmittelschlüssel (BLS 4.0) and the French Ciqual table. Recipes are evaluated separately against a 0.40 g threshold of excess fructose (a per-serving cutoff from Varney et al. 2017, Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, applied to one reference serving of the recipe) — an ingredient's own figure isn't directly comparable to that number, since a recipe combines several ingredients in different amounts. This describes the food, not a guarantee about how your body will respond to it.
Sources
- BLS 4.0 (Max Rubner-Institut) · DOI 10.25826/Data20251217-134202-0 · CC BY 4.0
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