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Fortunately, in most of the world sodas use sugar instead of syrup. So it's not as bad as it could be.
by Fargren 13y ago
Fortunately, in most of the world sodas use sugar instead of syrup. So it's not as bad as it could be.
- yen223 13y agoIsn't syrup just water with sugar? How is that worse?
- ekianjo 13y agoHe's referring to fructose syrup. To replace sugar, which is more expensive.
- throwit1979 13y agoExcept it takes about 5 seconds for sucrase in your small intestine to hydrolyze sugar into exactly the same substances present in HFCS. So it doesn't matter. At all.
- pyre 13y agoMost HFCS in use today is a mixture of 45% glucose / 55% fructose. Sucrose is 1 glucose molecule and 1 fructose molecule bonded together. If fructose is really the 'bad' thing here, then HFCS has more of it.
- donaldc 13y agoIt can be even worse than that. Studies have found some HFCS to contain as much as 65% fructose.
- stevep98 13y agoIf you want to scrutinize american sodas, I think you have to look at the portion size and culture of free refills rather than the sugar type. I don't know of anywhere else in the world that has serving sizes as big as the US. And very few places outside the US offer free refills.