Re:The hijacking of $339,000 worth of rare Japanese KitKats
by codersfocus on Saturday November 11, 2023 @03:38PM
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By your logic eating sugar is the same as eating brown rice, since they’re both broken down before going into your blood. Sugar isn’t healthy, but HFCS is even worse, with measurably higher glycemic index. And as mentioned, it has more fructose (5%.)
“Compared with sucrose, HFCS leads to greater fructose systemic exposure and significantly different acute metabolic effects.”
https://www.metabolismjournal.com/article/S0026-0495(11)0031...
Re:The hijacking of $339,000 worth of rare Japanese KitKats
by epcoa on Saturday November 11, 2023 @03:53PM
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No that is not by my logic, that is something you’re making up, I never brought up any completely different foods. Rice and refined sugar products are not the same. Try again.
Again because you are obviously slow (too much sugar?): sugar (like HFCS) is a refined product, it will have similar glycemic index to HFCS. The enzymatic breakdown of sucrose is fast enough not to matter. Rice is not, stop muddying the waters with irrelevant bullshit.
There is no evidence that the 5% difference in fructose content between usual HFCS and sucrose is of any consequence for health outcomes.
Costco sells a lot of good stuff but they also sell plenty of stuff because it is hipster bullshit. Case in point.
> There is a significant chemical difference between sugar and HFCS. For one, the molecules in sugar are disaccharides while in HFCS they are free.
And those molecules are enzymatically broken down to monosaccharides early on in your GI tract, long before it ever makes into your blood.
Sucrose is absorbed into your bloodstream.
> but basically fructose is multiple times more reactive in your blood than glucose and creates nasties when it reacts with other things you eat, namely fats.
Yes and sucrose is 50/50 glucose and fructose and this dissociation occurs long before anything about the bloodstream enters the picture.
All the bad shit you think happens with fructose will occur with “real” sugar consumption.
Being downvoted by the HN moron brigade (and I’m more referring to the parallel comment rather than mine) doesn’t change any simple scientific and physiologic facts.