Primal Foods
Primal foods that contain most or all eight essential saccharides include rice bran, barley bran, oat bran, mushrooms, yeast cell walls, aloe vera and gum sugars. Most of these sugars are not sweet but bitter and thus have a low glycemic index.
While scientists believe that people in good health can produce these sugars from glucose and galactose, it’s a very taxing process. In fact, it’s extremely difficult for diabetics and others who are sick or stressed to make the conversion.
Basically, the more essential saccharides that you add to your diet, the fewer number of steps, and the less enzymes and energy your body has to expend, to manufacture them.
Other glyconutrient rich primal foods include garlic, onions, leeks, carrots, fenugreek, psyllium seeds, radishes, pears, coconut meat, tomatoes, beans, kelp and figs.