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ProfessorGAC

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10. Silly

Tue Dec 10, 2024, 12:56 PM

Dec 10

With fructose being about 1¼ times sweeter than sucrose, one of the industrial drivers was to use less of it to get the same overall sweetness.
As table sugar is 50% fructose (it's a disaccharide, with a dextrose & a fructose connected by an ether linkage).
So, HFCS isn't adding that much more fructose to the body than if sucrose were used.
The problem is overconsumption of sugar!
Yes, there are metabolic pathway differences between sucrose & fructose, but keeping sugar content moderated is more important than focusing on one type of sugar over another.

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