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I read researched this a few days ago. You have to consider the taste, it tastes nicer because fructose has only 5 carbon in it's ring instead of 6 which leads
by xSwag 13y ago
I read researched this a few days ago.
You have to consider the taste, it tastes nicer because fructose has only 5 carbon in it's ring instead of 6 which leads to more pleasurable experience as it makes it fit better into the sweetness sensing in the mouth[1]
With Corn Syrup you get both glucose and fructose together whereas with sugar you just get sucrose. Another reason would be that more corn is grown in the US than sugar cane which makes it more efficient to produce corn syrup instead.
[1]https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23537367 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23537367
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- vetinari 13y agoFYI, sucrose aka saccharose is 50% glucose and 50% fructose ;)
- xSwag 13y agoI stand corrected! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sucrose#Metabolism_of_sucrose https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sucrose#Metabolism_of_sucrose
- pohl 13y agoIt hasn't broken down yet at the taste receptors. That happens in the duodenum, doesn't it?
- vetinari 13y agoYes, but it does not really matter. It tastes differently than HFCS, but not that differently and both are sweet :) In practice, nobody is bothered by very slightly different taste. Coca Cola uses different sweeteners (including artificial ones) in different parts of world and mostly nobody notices.
- kunai 13y agoIt "tastes" like synthetic crap. Before I was put on dietary restrictions I made my own ginger ale, because the stuff that was sweetened with HFCS tasted acidic and far, far too sweet. More sweetness doesn't always taste well.
- Florin_Andrei 13y ago> it tastes nicer That's largely acquired. I grew up without HFCS and I think old-timey sugar tastes better.