Re:How the food lobby fights sugar regulation in the EU [pdf]
by adamnemecek on Saturday July 30, 2016 @12:20PM
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It's not the same. HFCS does not trigger an insulin response.
Re:How the food lobby fights sugar regulation in the EU [pdf]
by hippich on Saturday July 30, 2016 @11:34AM
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weight-wise sugar has only half of fructose, and fructose is main offender. So yes, too much sugar is bad, but if you compare gram to gram, fructose is worse.
Re:How the food lobby fights sugar regulation in the EU [pdf]
by aexaey on Saturday July 30, 2016 @11:47AM
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As far as I understood, "high fructose" in HFCS is only high relative to the corn syrup that was hydrolyzed, but not processed with isomerase, i.e. essentially compared to corn syrup with no fructose at all.
Most commonly used HFCS varieties contains 42% or 55% fructose [1], which compares well with 50% in sucrose.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_fructose_corn_syrup#Compo...
What I believe happened is that at the same time HFCS came on the market there was also a larger push to put sugar into a lot of things in place of fat.
Thus the introduction of HFCS seems to correlate with the North America weight problem but the North American weight problem also correlates with the increase in sugar in our diet -- and I understand from Sugar Coated and Dr. Lustig that is the causitive correlation.