[Marylander]

HFCS is a combination of fructose and glucose,
whereas,
sugar is a combination of fructose and glucose.

Does that clear things up?

[Errant]

Does that clear things up? Not really. Sugar (sucrose) contains fructose in a form that must go through the digestive process before it's released. We don't fully understand the process, but it is believed that the digestive process reduces the effects of of fructose on the body.

Also, the natural occurring fructose found in fruits and other plants may be less harmful than the processed form.

[RJS1950]

Fructose is related to glucose (both are essential simple sugars) and fructose is FRUIT sugar the same as you find in fruits and natural fruit juices. I never found anything in my biochemistry courses that indicated that fructose goes directly to fat as someone else here indicated. In the mid 70s it was charcoal broiled meat causes cancer, salt causes HBP, nitrites in bacon, butter, eggs all cause high cholesterol, stress causing ulcers and a host of other things that were BS then and have been proven to be BS today.

As Marylander said:

HFCS is a combination of fructose and glucose,
whereas,
sugar is a combination of fructose and glucose.

Get over the overhyped BS.