High fructose corn syrup is terrible for you.
I want to be really clear about that.
Both table sugar, or sucrose, and high fructose corn syrup are sugars.
Sugar is bad for you, end of story.
But is there any difference between high fructose corn syrup and table sugar?
When they’re linked together by a chemical bond, we call the result sucrose, or table sugar.
It’s 50% glucose and 50% fructose.
From those cells, it enters our bloodstream.
Congratulations, you’ve just eaten and absorbed some sugar.
So it just gets absorbed directly, through the same fructose and glucose transporters as in the scenario above.
Both contain a lot of fructose.
Yes, high fructose corn syrup can be higher in fructose than table sugar*.
Studies on insulin response and weight loss, similarly, showed no difference between the two sugars.
They reportedin The Journal of Nutritionthat female mice who ate the fructose-glucose mixture had fewer babies and shortened lifespans.
The university issued a press release headlined “Fructose more toxic than table sugar in mice.”
“Not to say that this paradigm is bad, but it’s somewhat untested.”
We’vewritten beforeabout some ways to avoid sugar, and make the sugar you eat less harmful.
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