Study showing what fructose does after you eat it

[atomicspacebunny]

It wouldn’t be too difficult to make a pure fructose sweetener from HFCS would it? I’m thinking they manipulate the content of different HFCS ratios already.

Three types:

HFCS-42 is a form of high fructose corn syrup that contains 42% fructose. 10% sweeter than sugar. A typical breakdown would be:

Sugar	Percentage
Fructose	42%
Glucose	53%
Maltose	5%

HFCS-55 is a form of high fructose corn syrup that contains 55% fructose. 25% sweeter than sugar. A typical breakdown would be:

Sugar	Percentage
Fructose	55%
Glucose	41%
Maltose	4%

HFCS-90 (highly concentrated)

HFCS-90 is a form of high fructose corn syrup that contains 90% fructose.

It is produced from corn starch. It is the sweetest of the three commonly used formulations being almost 1.6 times as sweet as sugar.

A typical breakdown would be:

Sugar	Percentage
Fructose	90%
Glucose	5%
Maltose	5%

Over the past 30 years high fructose corn syrup has replaced sugar as the sweetener in soft drinks. In Japan it represents approx 25% of the sweeteners and in the EU it is hardly used at all. Because of subsidies and tariffs it is approx half the price of sugar in the USA, though the real cost of producing it is probably similar to sugar. …More

Note: “…The rats fed the HFCS seemed to develop an insatiable appetite and grew fat on their regular food. This did not happen with ordinary sugar. …”

[carolT]

I’ve followed up on the fatty liver aspect of it here:

How we get a fatty liver. An attempt at a simple explanation for a complex process

This study describes the differences between two pathways that can lead to NAFDL. The one called Primary (PRIM) begins with increased de novo lipogenesis (DNL) in the liver. The Secondary pathway (SEC) is a result of an increased free fatty acid FFA load on the liver coming from impaired adipose tissue storage. [DNLtypes] First, these two routes have a common denominator; they both involve an adequacy of choline supply to export fats from the liver. That’s the part at the top involving alterna…

[erdoke]

The age of quotas ended in late 2017. Due to a crash in sucrose prices the actual use of HFCS has still declined vs. 2017.

[erdoke]

Crystalline fructose is available, although it’s not produced in the EU, but e.g. in Turkey. He highest fructose containing syrup is around 95-96 %. However, the use is almost always in processed foods that contain starch, i.e. a lot of glucose, so that the ratio is not shifted any further than in HFCS 55. There are just a few exceptions, and the immediate reason for concern when the F:G ratio is above 1.5 is malabsorption, and consequently GI symptoms.