Do you avoid High Fructose Corn Syrup?

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  • Heh?
    12 years ago | pl

    Actually, high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS) is worse than sugars, such as glucose and sucrose.

    Commercial glucose/sucrose can contain fructose, with equal concentrations of glucose/sucrose and fructose. HFCS, on the other hand, may have up to 5% more fructose.

    Unlike glucose and sucrose, fructose is nigh exclusively metabolized in the liver.

    Excess fructose is turned into fat that accumulates and can cause a condition known as fatty liver disease, which can then lead to the development of fatty cysts and/or cirrhosis, and significantly increases the chance of developing liver cancer--the fifth most prevalent cancer.

    Here is an article on a Princeton University study regarding some of HFCS's adverse effects on rat health:
    http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S26/91/22K07/

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    • Heh?
      12 years ago | pl

      Hm. I meant to write:
      Commercial glucose can contain fructose, with equal concentrations of glucose and fructose.

      Since sucrose is glucose and fructose.

      Also, I neglected to mention the issue with mercury contaminating some of the HFCS produced in 2005 . . .

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