Scicurious, High Fructose Corn Syrup: Much Maligned? Or the Devil’s Food Cake?, August 23, 2011, Fructose is a yellowish white crystallized, water soluble ketonic monosaccharide sugar found in many plants, C6H12O6. It is sweeter than sucrose and often bonded to glucose to form the disaccharide sucrose. Triglyceride is a type of fat (lipid) found in the blood. When we eat, our body convert any calories that doesn’t need to use right away into triglycerides. Triglycerides are stored in the fat cells. Hormones release triglycerides for energy between meals. If we regularly eat more calories like carbohydrates and fats than we burn, we have high triglycerides. HFCS is generally a sucrose. Sucrose is a disaccharide that is a combination of two
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Americans eat a lot of HFCS, so people tend to blame on HFCS even though many studies have found out that there is little relationship between HFCS and sugar. HFCS is a sucrose that is combination of glucose and fructose. HFCS has 55% of fructose and 42% of sucrose. Since fructose is sweeter than sucrose, higher portion of fructose makes HFCS sweet. However, in reality, the percentages are not very different, and the sweetness of HFCS is comparable. HFCS is high used because of its cheap price. HFCS is a lot cheaper than sucrose because of corn subsidies in the United States. For food industry, they use HFCS instead of sugar so that they can produce and process foods with lower price. But, it doesn’t mean that HFCS has to be blamed because since HFCS has been used more, Americans start to get fatter. The author states some significant errors from a certain study showing relationship between body weight and time interval of HFCS intake in different groups. One of the error is the experimental groups have different treatments, and they are not under same condition. Control groups are not the same. The results are not consistent. One of the biggest criticism is rats are never taken not only total calorie intake, but also HFCS and sucrose consumption in long term trials. The author also questions why rats in first group are measured their glucose levels but not for the other groups. The author’s biggest criticism is why and how does HFCS cause more weight gain? Until this question is fully answered, the author will be still suspicious that HFCS causes huge weight gain and American obesity
Americans eat a lot of HFCS, so people tend to blame on HFCS even though many studies have found out that there is little relationship between HFCS and sugar. HFCS is a sucrose that is combination of glucose and fructose. HFCS has 55% of fructose and 42% of sucrose. Since fructose is sweeter than sucrose, higher portion of fructose makes HFCS sweet. However, in reality, the percentages are not very different, and the sweetness of HFCS is comparable. HFCS is high used because of its cheap price. HFCS is a lot cheaper than sucrose because of corn subsidies in the United States. For food industry, they use HFCS instead of sugar so that they can produce and process foods with lower price. But, it doesn’t mean that HFCS has to be blamed because since HFCS has been used more, Americans start to get fatter. The author states some significant errors from a certain study showing relationship between body weight and time interval of HFCS intake in different groups. One of the error is the experimental groups have different treatments, and they are not under same condition. Control groups are not the same. The results are not consistent. One of the biggest criticism is rats are never taken not only total calorie intake, but also HFCS and sucrose consumption in long term trials. The author also questions why rats in first group are measured their glucose levels but not for the other groups. The author’s biggest criticism is why and how does HFCS cause more weight gain? Until this question is fully answered, the author will be still suspicious that HFCS causes huge weight gain and American obesity