You are correct, I was imprecise. 100g of pasta is close to 100g of glucose, while 100g of table sugar (sucrose) is ~50/50 glucose and fructose, the latter of which has a completely separate metabolism.
But both cause a huge glucose spike (ignoring fructose metabolism for now) and in that respect they are quite similar, and very different from basically any other kind of food in terms of metabolic response.
But both cause a huge glucose spike (ignoring fructose metabolism for now) and in that respect they are quite similar, and very different from basically any other kind of food in terms of metabolic response.