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Old 17-07-2008, 09:01 AM posted to uk.rec.gardening
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brian mitchell writes:
| echinosum wrote:
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| I do seem to remember hearing that fructose was easier on the digestive
| systems than sucrose, but one hears a lot of things.

I believe that to be true, but to be a purely theoretical point, as
the difference affects only people with extremely rare biochemical
disorders. But I could well be wrong.

| I believe one of
| the reasons for the apple juice concentrate is the additional pectin
| because low sugar jams don't set as well, but probably sweetness as
| well.

That is what I would guess.


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Nick Maclaren.