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>6. Could the real culprit in fatty liver disease be high-fructose corn syrup, not regular table sugar? After all, it says "high-fructose" right on the label.
by scoofy 5y ago
>6. Could the real culprit in fatty liver disease be high-fructose corn syrup, not regular table sugar? After all, it says "high-fructose" right on the label.
>Regular table sugar is made up of about 50% fructose, and a common formulation of high-fructose corn syrup (called "HFCS-55") contains 55% fructose. These products are similar enough that there is no evidence of differences in their impact on metabolic health. However, some commercially available formulations of high-fructose corn syrup contain higher proportions of fructose, such as 65% or even higher.21 We do not know whether the health consequences of these products differ from products containing lower concentrations of fructose.
UCSF researchers seem to suggest that this isn't actually relevant
https://sugarscience.ucsf.edu/alternate-views-toxic-truth.html https://sugarscience.ucsf.edu/alternate-views-toxic-truth.ht...
- wrycoder 5y agoSince both sucrose and HFCS are quickly degraded to fructose and glucose, I think the result would be the same as eating a mixture of straight fructose and glucose. TFA speaks to eating straight fructose.