Ah. That would be those MAGIC carbs. Gotcha.
CitizenKane, you need to examine what it is that you are after.
If you are trying to feel full on less food, you want carbs that are slower to digest, stuff that's higher in fibre and that has fewer calories for the volume. Green vegetables are the winner here, very few carbs, low in calories, high in fibre and micronutrients. Not much of a glucose-source though, so not your first choice by a long shot if the object is post workout glucose!
If you're looking for something post workout, what you want is glucose or a glucose polymer - ie starch. Starches are basically glucose molecules that get together and hold hands. Eat something like white or brown rice, oats, white pasta... your digestive tract will break up the party and release glucose, which requires and stimulates insulin in your body, blunting cortisol, stimulating satiety, shuttling in nutrients and setting the stage for muscle reglycogenation. Since glucose preferentially fills muscle glycogen stores, you want something that either IS glucose or will break down into glucose for this purpose.
The sugar profile of fruit is generally about half fructose and half glucose. You'll see sucrose (and a few other sugars) listed also if you look up the specifics on the USDA nutrient database, but recall that sucrose is a glucose bonded to a fructose. Fructose preferentially fills liver glycogen and you do want this sometimes, but not always. The small amount of fructose in a piece of fruit isn't a problem for most folks, but you can really run into trouble when you drink fruit juice, since this mix of fructose and glucose is virtually identical to the sweetener used in soda pop. In fact, an 8-ounce glass of orange juice has a slightly worse sugar profile than an 8-ounce glass of coca cola (if memory serves), and it's really easy to overconsume fructose this way. You'd have to eat many oranges to get this much sugar, and while I've seen many people knock back a couple of large glasses of juice at a sitting, I have yet to watch someone eat 5-6 oranges at once!
Short answer made long, take a look at the type of carbohydrate in pasta and decide if it's what you want for your purpose.
