en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pheni
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Although it offers quick carbohydrates helping in slow digestion and sustained energy while fasting during the day
This reverses basic nutrition guidance: quick/refined carbohydrates are digested and absorbed quickly, so they tend to give short-lived energy rather than slow digestion or sustained energy.
Full reasoning
The claim says quick carbohydrates help with slow digestion and sustained energy. Authoritative nutrition sources say the opposite.
- Harvard Health explains that sugar is a simple carbohydrate that is "digested and absorbed into the blood quickly" and gives only a short-lived energy boost. Harvard also says highly refined carbohydrates are absorbed almost as quickly as refined sugar and produce the same short-lived surge followed by an energy drop.
- NHS guidance says wholegrain, higher-fibre starchy foods are the ones that provide a slow release of energy, and that wholegrain foods are digested more slowly than refined grains.
- Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health likewise describes pastries and other refined foods as easily digested carbohydrates and contrasts them with slowly digested carbohydrates such as beans.
Pheni is described in the article itself as being made from semolina or flour and typically served sweetened with milk; that places it closer to a refined, quickly digested carbohydrate-rich sweet than to the higher-fibre foods associated with slow digestion and sustained energy. So the specific statement that its quick carbohydrates help with slow digestion and sustained energy is backwards.
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- Are there energy-boosting foods - Harvard Health
Sugar is a simple carbohydrate, which means that it's digested and absorbed into the blood quickly... the effect is short-lived... highly refined carbohydrates... are digested and absorbed almost as quickly as refined sugar, providing the same short-lived surge of energy and subsequent energy drop.
- Starchy foods and carbohydrates - NHS
Higher-fibre options can also provide a slow release of energy... We digest wholegrain foods slower than refined grains, so they can help us feel full for longer.
- Carbohydrates • The Nutrition Source
Unhealthier sources of carbohydrates include white bread, pastries, sodas, and other highly processed or refined foods. These items contain easily digested carbohydrates... choose beans for an excellent source of slowly digested carbohydrates.