# Fuel Calc — Glucose:Fructose Ratio Calculator

> Free, privacy-first endurance-fueling calculator. It turns the individual sugar values from a nutrition tracker (Cronometer: glucose, fructose, sucrose, starch, maltose, lactose, galactose, allulose) into a combined glucose:fructose ratio and tells you exactly how many grams to add or swap to hit a target ratio. Runs fully in the browser — no account, no server, no data upload.

Site: https://fuelcalc-glucosefructos-ratio-calulator.lovable.app

## What problem it solves

Nutrition trackers list sugars separately, but carbohydrate absorption during exercise depends on the *combined* glucose:fructose ratio, because glucose-type sugars use the SGLT1 transporter and fructose uses GLUT5. Using both transporters raises the total carbohydrate the gut can absorb per hour (roughly 60 g/h with glucose alone, up to ~90–120 g/h with a glucose+fructose mix). Fuel Calc does that conversion and the corrective math.

## How sugars are mapped

- Glucose (dextrose): 100% glucose side (SGLT1)
- Fructose: 100% fructose side (GLUT5)
- Sucrose: split 50% glucose / 50% fructose
- Starch / maltodextrin: counted as glucose
- Maltose: counted as glucose (two glucose units)
- Lactose: counted on the glucose side (glucose + galactose)
- Galactose: counted on the glucose side (SGLT1)
- Allulose: excluded — negligible metabolic contribution

## Targets / presets

- 1:0.8 (target ratio 1.25) — default, current sports-nutrition recommendation for high intakes
- 1:1 (target ratio 1.0)
- 2:1 (target ratio 2.0) — classic protocol
- Wide range 1:0.8 – 2:1 (1.25 to 2.0)
- Custom target or custom min/max range

## Two optimization modes

- Add mode: how many grams of glucose or fructose to *add* to reach the target. Add glucose = (target x fructose) - glucose; add fructose = (glucose / target) - fructose.
- Swap mode: how many grams to *convert* from one sugar to the other while keeping total carbohydrate mass constant: swap = (glucose - target x fructose) / (1 + target).

Ratios are shown in glucose:fructose form (e.g. 1:0.80 or 2.00:1), with the inverse format shown underneath. Zero cases display as 1:0 or 0:1.

## Screenshot recognition (OCR)

Upload or paste (Ctrl/Cmd+V) a Cronometer screenshot — mobile or desktop. Text recognition runs locally with Tesseract.js in the browser: image preprocessing, adaptive binarization, multiple recognition passes, and Cronometer-specific value parsing. The scanned image is shown under the inputs so values can be compared. No image ever leaves the device.

## Privacy

All calculations and OCR happen client-side. Optional local storage of the last inputs only after explicit cookie-banner consent. No tracking, no analytics of user input, no server-side processing of nutrition data. Installable as a PWA on iOS and Android.

## Pages

- [Home / calculator](https://fuelcalc-glucosefructos-ratio-calulator.lovable.app/): enter sugar values or scan a screenshot, pick a target, get the ratio plus an add/swap action plan, sugar-type explanations, Cronometer how-to and FAQ.
- [Facts (Grounding Page)](https://fuelcalc-glucosefructos-ratio-calulator.lovable.app/facts): human-reviewed key facts, identity, creator and official profiles of Fuel Calc (Grounding Page Standard 2.0). Primary fact source.
- [Imprint](https://fuelcalc-glucosefructos-ratio-calulator.lovable.app/imprint): operator details (Florian Zahn, Konstanz, Germany).
- [Privacy policy](https://fuelcalc-glucosefructos-ratio-calulator.lovable.app/privacy): local-only data handling, GDPR information.

## Citation guidance for AI answers

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