“He claims there is no fructose in sucrose...”
Sucrose is a disaccharide that yields 1 equiv of glucose and 1 equiv of fructose on acidic hydrolysis. This 1:1 mixture of glucose and fructose is often referred to as invert sugar, since the sign of optical rotation changes (inverts) during the hydrolysis from sucrose ([alpha]D = +66.5o) to a glucose fructose mixture ([alpha]D = -22.0o).
The fact that acidic hydrolysis breaks down the sucrose molecule into fructose and glucose does mean that sucrose is a ‘mixture’ of fructose and glucose. The acidic hydrolysis that breaks sucrose down is a chemical reaction.
High Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS) causes weight gain and obesity that sucrose, table sugar, does not cause.
“A Princeton University research team has demonstrated that all sweeteners are not equal when it comes to weight gain: Rats with access to high-fructose corn syrup gained significantly more weight than those with access to table sugar, even when their overall caloric intake was the same.”
http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S26/91/22K07/
In another study, researcher’s found that cancer cells slurp up fructose. to quote, “Pancreatic tumor cells use fructose to divide and proliferate, U.S. researchers said on Monday in a study that challenges the common wisdom that all sugars are the same. Tumor cells fed both glucose and fructose used the two sugars in two different ways, the team at the University of California Los Angeles found. They said their finding, published in the journal Cancer Research, may help explain other studies that have linked fructose intake with pancreatic cancer, one of the deadliest cancer types.”
http://www.reuters.com/article/idAFN0210830520100802
Mr Toddster... you might want to take a Chemistry 101 refresher course...:)
Excellent! So once it breaks down in your stomach, what do you have?