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I'm sorry but food is a political issue
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, Billy wrote: In article , "David Hare-Scott" wrote: Frank wrote: It would be a misnomer as corn sugar is glucose. High fructose corn syrup is something else but is functionally identical to sucrose when put in the high acid environment of sodas. Food police should bitch about something real. Hmmm... Fructose and sucrose are two different types of sugar. Sucrose causes an insulin reaction. Fructose does not cause an insulin reaction. Fruticose is converted to fat by the liver. A high fructose diet is a high fat diet. Source: lookup YouTube.com for a video called "sugar: the bitter truth" the good doctor explains how high fructose diets causes type 2 diabetes. The video is one and half hours long, but worth while watching. I'm a retired chemist, which is why some of this stuff bugs me. Sucrose from sugar cane or beets is a disaccharide of glucose and fructose. Corn sugar is glucose and high fructose corn syrup is corn sugar treated with an enzyme to convert half of the glucose to fructose. It is not a disaccharide but in the low pH soda environment, sucrose inverts to the individual sugars, so functionally and nutritionally high fructose corn syrup and sucrose are the same. Sounds plausible. The question is though how fast? I would expect this fission to require heat and/or enzymes to proceed at any reasonable speed. By the time the sugars are in your gut and being absorbed how much sucrose has been broken down? Unless it is a substantial proportion your argument fails. But even if true the argument is rather pointless. If historically we used to get sucrose in soft drinks (which you say breaks down to glucose and fructose) and now get it pre broken down how does that show that complaining about HFCS in food is inappropriate? If regular high intakes of fructose are harmful, as some studies suggest, we should be reducing the intake rather than saying it is no worse than what was previously doing harm. David The deal is that glucose will satiate your appetite, fructose won't. As a result, you will consume more food sweetened with fructose. Now why would anyone want that when we have an obesity epidemic and health care costing .... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_..._United_States -- Bill S. Jersey USA zone 5 shade garden http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Q0JfdP36kI http://www.lascaux.culture.fr/index.php?lng=fr&acc=true |
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