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Re:Singapore doubles down on lab-grown meat as Silicon Valle... by nradov on Sunday June 23, 2024 @05:21PM (#40770663)
Corn syrup is kind of a bogeyman in some circles because it contains a slightly higher fraction of fructose than sugar produced from beets or sugar cane. There might be a little something to that as fructose is metabolized through a different pathway than glucose and there is some correlation at the country level between consumption and diabetes rates. But with sugar it's really more the quantity that matters rather than the composition.

https://doi.org/10.1080/17441692.2012.736257

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Re:Singapore doubles down on lab-grown meat as Silicon Valle... by fbdab103 on Sunday June 23, 2024 @05:48PM (#40770870)
Were you attempting to post a different link? That study points a pretty strong negative correlation with corn syrup.

  ...Diabetes prevalence was 20% higher in countries with higher availability of HFCS compared to countries with low availability, and these differences were retained or strengthened after adjusting for country-level estimates of body mass index (BMI), population and gross domestic product (adjusted diabetes prevalence=8.0 vs. 6.7%, p=0.03; fasting plasma glucose=5.34 vs. 5.22 mmol/L, p=0.03) despite similarities in obesity and total sugar and calorie availability. These results suggest that countries with higher availability of HFCS have a higher prevalence of type 2 diabetes independent of obesity.
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Re:Singapore doubles down on lab-grown meat as Silicon Valle... by sundvor on Sunday June 23, 2024 @07:21PM (#40771457)
Being someone who moved to Australia, I'm so glad HFCS (High Fructose Corn Syrup) is almost nowhere to be found here.
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Re:Singapore doubles down on lab-grown meat as Silicon Valle... by Avshalom on Sunday June 23, 2024 @05:43PM (#40770828)
It actually contains less fructose than cane sugar, it just has more fructose than normal corn
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