Your subject is interesting. Apparently HFCS can’t be made crystalline.
Random thoughts:
It’s interesting HFCS can’t be bought in the store, like Karo Syrup.
Have you noticed, as have I, these young skinny girls with these spare tires around their middles? They’re skinny everywhere else, except for this blob of fat around their gut. In the past, before HFCS was so prevalent, it was something you’d NEVER see. If someone had some extra weight, it was spread out all over their body, or on their hips and thighs, not centralized in their gut. Makes one wonder.
And, finally, I personally have noticed a difference as far as soft drinks go. I was drinking 1-2 cokes a day. When I switched to Mexican Cokes which are made with sugar, my craving for a Coke declined dramatically. I now drink maybe one a week, without trying, without any discipline involved.
It DOES make one wonder.
That’s exactly what I’m trying to find out, and all I’ve been getting is obfuscation.
If sugar (sucrose for the nitpickers) and HFCS are really the same in solution, why can’t they supply me with a method to get back crystalline sugar from HFCS in solution? If crystalline sugar can be produced from HFCS, it could be easily spared the negative press that HFCS gets.
Why is it interesting? What would you do with HFCS in the home that you can't do with table sugar or corn syrup?
In the past, before HFCS was so prevalent, it was something you’d NEVER see. If someone had some extra weight, it was spread out all over their body, or on their hips and thighs, not centralized in their gut. Makes one wonder.
Makes me wonder how HFCS could be responsible for what you claim to see since they both offer the same number of calories per gram and sport the same glycemic index.
When I switched to Mexican Cokes which are made with sugar, my craving for a Coke declined dramatically. I now drink maybe one a week, without trying, without any discipline involved.
It DOES make one wonder.
Wonder no longer.
One question is whether HFCS-sweetened beverages have a different satiety profile from sucrose-sweetened ones. This study examined the relative impact of 16 oz. beverage preloads on motivational ratings and energy intakes at a test meal, using a within-subject design. Participants were 19 men and 18 women, aged 20-30 y. The iso-energetic (214 kcal) beverages were cola sweetened with either sucrose, HFCS 55 (55% fructose, 45% glucose); HFCS 42 (42% fructose; 58% glucose), or aspartame, and 1% milk. A no beverage control was also employed. Breakfast was consumed at 8:00 am and the beverages were consumed at 10:10 am. Subjective ratings of hunger, fullness, desire to eat, thirst, and nausea were collected at 20 min intervals until lunch was served 140 min later. Caloric beverages suppressed hunger ratings and increased satiety ratings relative to the no beverage control. However, there were no significant differences in satiety profiles among the sucrose- and HFCS-sweetened beverages, diet cola, and 1% milk.
Sugars and satiety: does the type of sweetener make a difference?
Kathleen J Melanson and others at Rhode Island University reviewed the effects of HFCS and sucrose on circulating levels of glucose, leptin, insulin and ghrelin in a study group of lean women. All four tested substances have been hypothesized to play a role in metabolism and obesity. The study found "no differences in the metabolic effects" of HFCS and sucrose in this short-term study, and called for further similar studies of obese individuals and males. ("Similar effects of high fructose corn syrup and sucrose consumption on circulating levels of glucose, leptin, insulin and ghrelin,"