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Anonymous
>>433641 >>433644 This is a property of FRUCTOSE, you ignorami.
HFCS is most commonly used as HFCS 55 or HFCS 42. This means that they are 55% and 42% fructose, with the rest being glucose.
Cane sugar is sucrose. A molecule of sucrose is a molecule of fructose bonded to a molecule of glucose. Your saliva contains an enzyme which quickly converts sucrose to 50% glucose / 50% fructose, making sucrose exactly nutritionally equivalent to HFCS 50.
Fructose is good because it is roughly twice as sweet as glucose for the same number of calories. It is known as "fruit sugar" because it is very common in sweet fruits.
Fructose is bad because, unlike glucose, it doesn't trigger a satiety response. (no, it does NOT suppress the satiety response, it is simply that your body does not count the fructose when it decides whether it is full)
However, HFCS is basically equivalent to sucrose in fructose content. Honey and maple syrup also contain lots of fructose. Sugar is sugar.
If you want a lower-fructose sweetener, then HFCS 42 is actually somewhat "better" than sucrose, while HFCS 55 is slightly "worse", but they're all in the same neighborhood.
Your attitude that HFCS is especially bad is ignorant and ridiculous.
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