[Mase]

You can take sucrose (cane sugar) and dissolve it in water and get a solution of glucose and fructose.

How are you going to take a disaccharide and convert it into a monosaccharide in an aqueous solution? Will you be adding sucrase (enzyme) to that solution? Will sucrase break the bond between glucose and fructose in water? I don't think so. Mixing sucrose with water doesn't break the glycosidic bonds connecting the two monosacchrides, glucose and fructose. Your statement is flawed from the start.

you cannot convert the HFCS solution to crystalline sugar

Why would you want to convert HFCS into sucrose when you can simply purchase sucrose instead?

[RedMonqey]

How are you going to take a disaccharide and convert it into a monosaccharide in an aqueous solution?

Ok now this is where I leave the arguement to you who paid more attention in science class tham I did.

I can read and understand a science or medical journal with some confidence on forming a reasonable opinion but I've got enough horse sense than to try and buffalo fellows who clearly got beter grades than I did.

I'll follow the discussion try to keep up but otherwise I'm over my head.

Have at it, boys.

[James C. Bennett]

You’re right, my bad.

I forgot that hydrolysis doesn’t happen in water as rapidly as it does in the stomach, under acidic influence.

Nonetheless, the excess fructose in HFCS, weight per weight in comparison with sucrose is where the difference matters.