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Thursday, March 18, 2010

HFCS and Table Sugar are not equals

Princeton researchers made rats obese (not fat, obese) by giving them access to lower doses of HFCS than the amount of sugar given to the control group of rats. That corn subsidy is not doing a body good!

And the best explanation of the difference: as a result of the manufacturing process for high-fructose corn syrup, the fructose molecules in the sweetener are free and unbound, ready for absorption and utilization. In contrast, every fructose molecule in sucrose that comes from cane sugar or beet sugar is bound to a corresponding glucose molecule and must go through an extra metabolic step before it can be utilized.

A very readable summary.

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