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I thought corn syrup was all glucose, and high fructose corn syrup had about half converted to fructose.
by amanaplanacanal 2y ago
I thought corn syrup was all glucose, and high fructose corn syrup had about half converted to fructose.
- chasil 2y agoSucrose itself is a disaccharide composed of glucose and fructose. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sucrose https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sucrose Fructose is only processed by the liver, and can contribute to non-alcoholic fatty liver disease. Using maltose instead of sucrose will reduce the liver burden. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maltose https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maltose
- gorkish 2y agoCorrect; by converting about half to fructose you get a product that is functionally equivalent to sucrose. You could take it a step further and perform a condensation reaction to chemically convert it into the disaccharide (actual sucrose) but considering it's going back into something where it would just disassociate again, it would not be worth doing.