Re:Corn Syrup Took over America
by tptacek on Monday January 13, 2025 @08:19PM
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Obviously they are different chemicals.
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In soda because its acidic, sucrose breaks apart to fructose and glucose.
Yes: the two sweeteners have exactly the same metabolic impact. There is no health advantage to sucrose over high-fructose corn syrup. Even outside of soda, your body is extremely efficient at breaking up sucrose; it happens within some number of seconds when your small intestine enzymes hit it. There's a folkloric belief that the sucrose bond gives your body time to more slowly metabolize the fructose; it does not.