Never said they were the same thing, but, yeah, they are very close.
HFCS does not contain honey’s amino acids or vitamins (honey contains all of the B complex)
LOL. All those amino acids, vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants represent a whopping .50 g out of 100 grams of honey. Does the term straining at a gnat mean anything to you? Like I said before, HFCS is not meaningfully different in composition or metabolism than honey.
While Toddsterpatriot waits for you to answer his question (hint: HFCS and sucrose have the same GI), I'm still waiting for you to show us how HFCS imparts well over ten times the normal amount of free simple sugars to anything it’s added to. That's high quality nonsense you got right thar.
So far, it’s only your opinion that the reaction of HCl with free fructose (sans any buffering agents) cannot produce enough 5-HMF to result in levels that can be carcinogenic.
Now it's only fructose that causes this deadly reaction, and it must be qualified so that there are no other "buffering agents" - whatever that means - to interfere with the carcinogens being formed. Maybe you don't realize it, but you're really hacking now. Forming hydroxymethylfurfural from HCL and sugar will work in a lab, in a beaker, but transferring those results to the human body is a stretch that you can't make.....IMHO, of course. Do you realize that the air you breathe and the water you drink contains benzene? Yup, it's true. Now, Mr, Natural, is benzene a powerful carcinogen or not? Oh Noes!!
I am not incorrect with respect to natural foods not containing high doses of simple sugars
You are incorrect about so many things. Most recently, you were woefully misguided about how HFCS came to be commercialized. And now you want us to believe that fruits, vegetables, herbs and legumes are not natural? I think you throw up all kinds of qualifiers and caveats as a defense mechanism when someone points out your many misunderstandings.
Funny how I’m “incorrect on so many things” and all I get told is that it is your opinion. Never mind your abuse of scripture.
Glycemic index reveals nothing, not even relating to how much insulin a body produces in response to a certain food. Incidentally, the average glycemic index of fructose is 19 while that of sucrose is 68, so why did you throw a lie at me, I’d like to know. Never mind not understanding that weight percent of certain ingredients does not speak to their reactivity or acidity/alkalinity, such as in honey.
If you don’t know what “buffering agent” means, please look it up. These are agents that prevent a massive shift towards a low pH during a reaction, and actually maintain a certain pH within the system. So the HCl within the stomach will be more likely to react with the buffers than directly with the fructose.
Calling HFCS what it is—an unnatural industrial product—is not the same as saying “fruits, vegetables, herbs and legumes are not natural”, so that’s reaching.
BTW, the average ambient atmospheric concentration of benzene is about 0.7 parts per billion. That’s in spite of our chemical industry, tobacco consumption and automobiles—mainly because of rapid atmospheric degradation. The vast majority of us will be in our graves long before we can inhale a tiny fraction of the LD50 of that chemical
I don’t understand your seeming anger over this issue. History is quite plain on the correlation between HFCS and government intervention.