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To: Fai Mao

High-fructose corn syrup (HCFS) seems like an unlikely villain, since HCFS is 55% fructose, 45% glucose, whereas cane sugar is 50% fructose and 50% glucose (molecularly bound, but separated before it even hits your stomach), and fruit sugar is 100% fructose.

But fructans are NOT digested into fructose from what this article seems to say. Some polymers are easily digested (starch), others are not (chitin, the exoskeleton of lobsters; or cellulose, also known as insoluble plant fiber.)


6 posted on 09/25/2021 2:56:22 PM PDT by dangus
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To: dangus

Fructose is converted to glucose before it is utilized by your body. Therein lies the problem.


13 posted on 09/25/2021 3:11:46 PM PDT by Fungi
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To: dangus
...and fruit sugar is 100% fructose.

I'm not aware of any fruits containing only fructose. It looks to me like some fruits, like plums and bananas, have a slightly higher percentage of glucose than fructose.

24 posted on 09/25/2021 3:33:09 PM PDT by Wissa (The Gods of the Copybook Headings shall return.)
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To: dangus

I suggest understanding a word:

Oligosaccharide.

The author is an idiot and should not be writing about the gut.


45 posted on 09/25/2021 7:36:08 PM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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