Fructose

tract, it is broken down into two sugars: glucose and fructose. Glucose can be produced by our bodies if we do not gain it from our food. Whereas, fructose is not produced in any significant amount by our bodies and there is no psychology need for it. Fructose can only be metabolized by the liver, this is not a problem if we eat it in small quantities, like if we were to eat fruit and then were to exercise. In these cases, the liver will turn fructose into glycogen and keep the sugar stored…

Targeted advertising, along with junk food availability, has contributed to unhealthy eating habits in our society. In David Barboza’s “If You Pitch It, They Will Eat” (2003), Barboza claims that “Product tie-ins are everywhere. There are SpongeBob SquarePants Popsicles, Oreo Cookie preschool counting books, and Keebler’s Scooby Doo Cookies”. He is basically saying that there are big junk food companies trying to push their advertising onto things that kids find interesting. I remember the same…

fermentation. However, the original version of kinetics model [24] was also used as for the comparison. The kinetics model assumes that the yeast both consume and hydrolyze the sucrose into glucose and fructose. The rate of sucrose hydrolysis is shown on Eq. 1 below. One mole of glucose or fructose (180 g/mol) will be fermented to two moles of ethanol (46 g/mol) and two moles of carbon dioxide (44 g/mol). The reaction pathway for the biochemical conversion of sucrose is supposed to follow the…

Sucrose, also known as table sugar, is a combination of glucose and fructose. Lactose, made from glucose and galactose, is found in milk and other dairy products. Maltose is found in barley and composed of two glucose molecules. Disaccharides combine to make small chains of sugars known as oligosaccharides. Monosaccharides…

many people believe carbohydrates are bad for the body and strive to live on low-carb diets, carbohydrates are essential for the body to live. 45 percent of our daily calories are meant to come from carbs. Monosaccharides Glucose, galactose and fructose are all monosaccharides, the building blocks…

contain vitamins that will increase the student’s health. Once a week 28% of high school students fall asleep in class. Many fruit juices contain fructose. Fructose is a form of sugar found in fruits and vegetables. Fructose is healthy unlike sugars found in sodas and other artificially flavored drinks. When students drink the fruit juice the fructose will give them energy and keep them from falling asleep in class. Nutritious…

natural sugars not only provide energy, but they protect the body against diseases. In lecture, we discussed and observed pictures of fructose, being a hexose monosaccharide. On the other hand, refined sugars are normally processed food products such as sugar cane (Cancercenter). It is typically found as the disaccharide sucrose, which is a combination of glucose and fructose. These extracted sugars are added to foods such as cookies, cake and soda. Cookies, cake and soda are examples of foods…

caught in this continuous cycle referred to as the Naylor Curve. The Naylor Curve described by Michael Pollan provides explanation behind why processed sweetener has overtaken the food industry. High fructose corn syrup is the derivative withdrawn from corn used to produce a cheap, fake sweetener. High fructose corn syrup is perhaps “tied with refined white sugar, because they contain empty calories (Mercado 1). This means that they are calories that do not confer any nutritional…

explains the journey of how corn developed to what it is today. In 1866, “corn syrup . . . became the first cheap domestic substitute for cane sugar” (Pollan 88). Then as corn refining started to be perfected, high-fructose corn syrup became quite popular. Pollan states that high-fructose corn syrup “is the most valuable food product refined from corn, accounting for 530 million bushels every year” (89). Once these different food processes were discovered, processed foods began making their way…

New research suggests that excess sugar, particularly the fructose in sugary drinks can potentially damage your brain. Researchers found that people who drink sugary beverages frequently often are more probable to have poorer memory, smaller brain size (volume), due to having a much smaller hippocampus, which is a part of the brain that is crucial for learning and memory. According to a follow-up study, it was found that people who drank diet soda daily were almost three times as likely to…