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Table sugar is sucrose, which is a molecular combination of fructose and glucose. HFCS is, as I understand it, just a bunch of fructose and glucose mixed toget
by sjwright 11y ago
Table sugar is sucrose, which is a molecular combination of fructose and glucose.
HFCS is, as I understand it, just a bunch of fructose and glucose mixed together.
Does that make them biologically equivalent? I've always been curious about that. I recall reading a claim that the body's need to split the sucrose molecule makes it lower impact than if it were pre-split.
- teslabox 11y agoMany producers' batches of HFCS used to be contaminated with mercury [1]. Thanks to the efforts of a lone FDA whistleblower, industry no longer uses mercury to make this substance. But high fructose corn syrup may still be contaminated with starch - chains of glucose - thereby giving HFCS a much higher calorie count than is on the label. Sugar is fine if your liver is healthy. It keeps me from wasting away. [1] http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/26/AR2009012601831.html http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01...