There do appear to be some specific effects of sucrose, although there are no immediately obvious health implications: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/ar

There do appear to be some specific effects of sucrose, although there are no immediately obvious health implications: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0022316623266882 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00223... (unclear disaccharide effect of sucrose) https://www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1126/science.493983 https://www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1126/science.493983 (unclear, but seemingly harmful, disaccharide effect of sucrose) https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0022316623079051 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00223... (disaccharide effect of sucrose but not maltose) https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00394-011-0228-x https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00394-011-0228-x (unclear, but seemingly beneficial, disaccharide effect of sucrose) https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-developmental-origins-of-health-and-disease/article/abs/consumption-of-sucrose-but-not-high-fructose-corn-syrup-leads-to-increased-adiposity-and-dyslipidaemia-in-the-pregnant-and-lactating-rat/44E7CC37A939F1982758FBFFDE0B181D https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-developme... (unclear, but seemingly harmful, disaccharide effect of sucrose) https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/hipo.22368 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/hipo.22368 (very surprising beneficial disaccharide effect of sucrose that should require further confirmation) https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.0020124 https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/jo... (John Ioannidis, Why Most Published Research Findings are False, cold shower to the preceding) I think that at least it is not obvious that sucrose intake should be equivalent to invert sugar intake. In order for sucrose to be saccharified, the enzyme sucrase must be produced; in order for sucrase to be produced, some internal regulation must occur; if some internal regulation occurs, other effects are at least possible. But no such effect has been clearly demonstrated as far as I can tell.