The Truth About High Fructose Corn Syrup - The Science Behind the Sweetener

QSR Magazine ^ | May 2008 | Blair Chancey

[raybbr]

Just want to say thank you for all your posts. They are very informative. Keep up the good work.

Ray

[djf]

He must be eating too much HFCS and not enough glucose to come to that conclusion.

There is one - ONE - single fuel that brains cells need.

Glucose.

http://www.fi.edu/learn/brain/carbs.html

[blueyon]

Thanks for the link. I have been trying to avoid MSG as I have migraines and just started learning that a lack of MSG means less migraines for me.

[KeyWest]

-Cane sugar is the ultimate poison however.

Some white table sugars are as you say, contain both sucrose/glucose -

Some? Chemistry 101 is needed here.

White sugar is sucrose. It breaks down into fructose and glucose. Honey can be just about any combo of sucrose, glucose or fructose, depending on the floral source and the time the bees have to work it.

Beet sugar is sucrose after refinement.

Most natural sugars, including nectars, are sucrose.

There are just too many studies out on the health hazards of HFCS to promote it over sucrose.

[sneakers]

bttt

[sergeantdave]

Pure maple syrup is made from Maple tree sap. It’s very expensive and hard to come by in the USA.

FYI

Maple syrup is sold by producers on e-bay. You can buy it by the case in pint, quart and gallon cans. The cost is reasonable as you’ll use less because of its inherent sweetness. You can also find it for sale at various web sites.

[TheBattman]

Of course, we cannot leave out the fact that people consume FAR more sugar than they did even a few decades ago, and the quantity continues to grow - with or with out HFCS.

And I am not trying to discount what I believe are real additional risks and dangers of HFCS. If anything, HFCS has made the use of sweeteners more prevalent because of convenience.

[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

there is a reason some countries ban HFCS - wish we did -

And “ban” what after that, cigarettes, alcohol, firearms, automobiles?

There are a lot of things out there that hurt our health and cause death. Giving the government the power to start banning things is not the answer.

Voice your opinion through the free market. Buy something else.

By the way, the mere consumption of sugars does not cause diabetes in and by itself. High consumption of sugar combined with morbid obesity, lack of exercise, a trauma to the system, and, often, this combined with drug and/or alcohol abuse is the only correlation between sugar and diabetes.

[Not gonna take it anymore]

I buy pure maple syrup at the grocery store. A bit more expensive but since there is nothing added, it is well worth the cost.

[Not gonna take it anymore]

As long as it is pure maple syrup with no added ingredients, it’s completely natural.

Yummy.

[ktime]

The Truth About High Fructose Corn Syrup

[Cheryllynn]

“MSG is a poison. I am glad I am sensitive to it (migraines) so that I even KNOW about this. It is shocking how many “food” products are filled with it. I am so sorry I gave so many of them to my children, since the poisonous excitotoxins can have lasting effects on their nervous systems or chronic conditions later in life.”

I agree. My husband gets migraines too——one Dorito will do it :( I just wish labels told you it was in there-—we pretty much avoid anything in a box at this point.

[Publius Valerius]

In the 60's wheat sold for closer to 14 dollars a bushel.

In 1960s dollars? No way.

[fireforeffect]

Learn Spanish.

Go to the local mexican market and buy Coke that says Hecho in Mexico. It's made with real sugar.

[hellbender]

Pure maple syrup is made from Maple tree sap. I doubt that’s what you have however. It’s very expensive and hard to come by in the USA.

Pure maple syrup isn't hard to find up here in slowly-thawing northern New England. Most of the stuff on store shelves comes from Canada, however.

[bonfire]

It’s easy here in NE Ohio too. Just bought a gallon from my neighbor CHEAP!

[Ditter]

MSG maybe be a simple salt but it is a flavor enhancer used to make things taste better without being better. It is not the only flavor enhancer there are other more powerful and for me, more dangerous ones out there. I have seriously strange and dangerous reactions to disodium insonate and disodium gunaylate. Maltodextrin is another one that I carefully avoid.

[Ditter]

Thanks for the link to MSG. I have had to figure that out myself by trial and error and a food chemical dictionary. I have book marked your link.

[kenth]

I’m not necessarily convinced either way.

Is is HFCS, or is it that the sweetener has become so prevalent in every food imaginable that we consume so much more? I’m sure in history, sweeteners were not so readily available that they were in just about every processed food. Which makes me think that’s the real problem - processed food. It’s cheap and far too easy to pick up something processed, compared to preparing a regular meal. It makes it easy to eat all the time, instead of eating for nutrition for the day’s work.

HFCS may be a culprit, but it may be more due to it’s availability as a sweetener than the makeup of the sweetener itself.

[Ditter]

It also helps if your mother, grandmother(both sides) and great grandmother had Type 2 diabetes, as did my husbands.