If you think your body can tell the difference between fructose in fruit and fructose in corn syrup, you're wrong. If you think your body can tell where the glucose it is burning came from, you're wrong. If you think that there is a nutritional difference between 100 calories of good and 100 calories of bad, you're wrong. There is no nutritional difference--they each have 100 calories!!! We are talking carbs, not what you consume with the carbs. Where's the difference?
Last edited by RockRobster; 06-23-2011 at 06:44 AM.
"Enjoy Every Sandwich"-Warren Zevon
I think you're wrong about this RockRobster. Princeton University has published a study that shows that there IS a difference between the fructose in High Fructose Corn Syrup and the fructose in natural sugar.Originally Posted by RockRobster
"High-fructose corn syrup and sucrose are both compounds that contain the simple sugars fructose and glucose, but there at least two clear differences between them. First, sucrose is composed of equal amounts of the two simple sugars -- it is 50 percent fructose and 50 percent glucose -- but the typical high-fructose corn syrup used in this study features a slightly imbalanced ratio, containing 55 percent fructose and 42 percent glucose. Larger sugar molecules called higher saccharides make up the remaining 3 percent of the sweetener. Second, 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. "
http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/a.../S26/91/22K07/
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