Converting Sugar to Fat

During and after meals, when glucose is plentiful, it can supply the body’s metabolic demands. The muscles and liver convert excess glucose to glycogen, an energy reserve. Any further excess is converted to triglycerides and stored.

Glucose or sugar leads to glucose-6-phosphate, which leads to glycogen. Glucose-6-phosphate also leads to glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate, which leads to glycerol. Glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate also leads to acetyl-coenzyme A, which leads to both the citric acid cycle and fatty acid. Glycerol and fatty acid both lead to triglyceride or fat. — Glucose (sugar) converted to Triglyceride (fat)