Re:Corn Syrup Took over America
by amanaplanacanal on Monday January 13, 2025 @03:24PM
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I thought corn syrup was all glucose, and high fructose corn syrup had about half converted to fructose.
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Sucrose itself is a disaccharide composed of glucose and fructose.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sucrose
Fructose is only processed by the liver, and can contribute to non-alcoholic fatty liver disease.
Using maltose instead of sucrose will reduce the liver burden.
Correct; by converting about half to fructose you get a product that is functionally equivalent to sucrose. You could take it a step further and perform a condensation reaction to chemically convert it into the disaccharide (actual sucrose) but considering it's going back into something where it would just disassociate again, it would not be worth doing.