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Perhaps the "sugar" in the soda is actually the much-dreaded high fructose corn syrup? I'd suspect as much, since this study was done recently, and most sodas d
by tjr 17y ago
Perhaps the "sugar" in the soda is actually the much-dreaded high fructose corn syrup? I'd suspect as much, since this study was done recently, and most sodas don't use "sugar", per se, any more.
- electromagnetic 17y agoThat's easy to prove, HFCS is far less prevalent in Canadian sodas and I barely even heard of it in soda when I was living in the UK and Europe. You simply need to correlate the results to other figures to see if HFCS is the major variable sticking out.
- stumm 17y agoI'm pretty sure much of the pop sold in Canada contains HFCS. They call it glucose/fructose there. In the UK it's referred to as: "glucose-fructose syrup". This sometimes leads to confusion. source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-fructose_corn_syrup http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-fructose_corn_syrup
- CWuestefeld 17y agoI think juice has just as much HFCS. Even light Hawaiian Punch shows it as the second highest ingredient, right after water (see http://www.hawaiianpunch.com/Text_only/nutlight_ing.html http://www.hawaiianpunch.com/Text_only/nutlight_ing.html ). The putatively healthy Ocean Spray Cranberry Juice Cocktail is "16.69 % High fructose corn syrup, 42% fructose" (http://www.oceansprayitg.com/recipes/ITGBeverages/CranberryJuiceCocktail.htm http://www.oceansprayitg.com/recipes/ITGBeverages/CranberryJ... ). So both juice and soda have a good deal of HFCS.