What is the difference between glucose-fructose syrup and High fructose corn syrup? Which is better for you?

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Interesting question - and there is so much garbage out there to confuse the issue! When I saw your question, I wondered myself what the difference might be, since they are both a mixture of two monosaccharides (glucose and fructose). As an aside, sucrose (table sugar) is also composed of glucose and fructose but they are bound by a glycosidic bond into disaccharides.

First, there are many types of HFCS (high fructose corn syrup) - sometimes they are labeled - like, HFCS-90 which means 90% F and 10% G. Most of the HFCS used in food products in this country are about 55% F and 45% G (so, not a lot different than table sugar which is converted into G and F by the time it hits the stomach due to high acid gastric juices). By law, G-F syrup is any combo of G and F that contains more than 5% F...so, I guess that means that HFCS is a type of G-F syrup.

Sports drinks many times contain G-F syrup. If you Google F-G syrup, you can see the different companies that make it with varying levels of F. The idea is that F , which is lower in the glycolytic pathway (turning sugar into energy) is one step closer to energy and therefore a quicker energy source (one less step from our cells to do to get to that precious energy (ATP)).

Fructose also, does not require insulin response to be metabolized - that's good and bad. Good for diabetics that have trouble with insulin levels, but bad for people eating too much because the increased insulin levels help to tell us that we are full. Less insulin means more eating and fatter humans.

That, of course, is a generality. Fructose is more readily turned into fat by the liver (triglycerides) if it is not turned into energy. A problem for the coach potato sitting there with a sports drink and a handful of jelly beans, but not a problem for an athlete who will be burning those calories and converting that fructose into much needed ATP for muscle fuel.To get back to your question - I think you have to look at the exact % of F in the mix - and also the purpose you have in drinking or eating the food containing the syrup.

I would think high performance athletes would want a higher% of F in the mix where as average activity people should be avoiding excess sugar in all forms. Sources: personal knowledge; some companies that produce F/G mixes: http://www.stevianbiotech.com/product/products_secondary_sweet_f.html, http://www.foodproductdesign.com/hotnews/64h1411309.html; the steps in glycolysis:

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Avoid them both! Glucose fructose syrup is usually made from some type of fruit sugar, with water added. It usually has a good balance of glucose to fructose in it's make up.

Your body cant deal with Fructose alone. Nothing naturally occurring in nature has only Fructose in it, and you should avoid products made with only Fructose added. Here is the more technical explanation of it: Sucrose is composed of glucose and fructose.

When sugar is given to rats in high amounts, the rats develop multiple health problems, especially when the rats were deficient in certain nutrients, such as copper. The researchers wanted to know whether it was the fructose or the glucose moiety that was causing the problems. So they repeated their studies with two groups of rats, one given high amounts of glucose and one given high amounts of fructose.

The glucose group was unaffected but the fructose group had disastrous results. The male rats did not reach adulthood. They had anemia, high cholesterol and heart hypertrophy--that means that their hearts enlarged until they exploded.

They also had delayed testicular development. Dr. Field explains that fructose in combination with copper deficiency in the growing animal interferes with collagen production. (Copper deficiency, by the way, is widespread in America.) In a nutshell, the little bodies of the rats just fell apart.

The females were not so affected, but they were unable to produce live young. "The medical profession thinks fructose is better for diabetics than sugar," says Dr. Field, "but every cell in the body can metabolize glucose. However, all fructose must be metabolized in the liver.

The livers of the rats on the high fructose diet looked like the livers of alcoholics, plugged with fat and cirrhotic. " HFCS contains more fructose than sugar and this fructose is more immediately available because it is not bound up in sucrose. Since the effects of fructose are most severe in the growing organism, we need to think carefully about what kind of sweeteners we give to our children.

Fruit juices should be strictly avoided--they are very high in fructose--but so should anything with HFCS. Interestingly, although HFCS is used in many products aimed at children, it is not used in baby formula, even though it would probably save the manufactueres a few pennies for each can. Do the formula makers know something they aren't telling us?

Pretty murky! If you have to, go with straight sugar. Remember what they said a few years ago about Thalidomide?

Better think twice about what someone is telling you is safe! Source: Westonprice. Org .

They're both bad for you. Glucose-fructose syrup has more glucose in the blend, while high fructose corn syrup has a higher percentage of fructose. They're both blends of sugars, and they're both full of calories with no other nutritional value - avoid 'em if you can!.

1 schwarty, regarding your answer "Avoid them both! ": In other words, moderation in all intake of sugar (whether it be disaccharides like sucrose or monosaccharides like glucose or fructose. Common sense tells us that going overboard in any direction is a mistake - such is the case with products that contain relatively high levels of fructose - like sports drinks (which, by the way have only a few percent higher fructose than that can of cola that costs less - but other ingredients differ...).

Drink it if you are an athlete and need the fructose that will not be turned into triglycerides by the liver but will quickly be turned into ATP's for muslce fuel. If you are an average American (not enough exercise, eating too many calories) then you have no business consuming high-sugar ANYTHING. Equating fructose to thalidomide is LUDICROUS!

Thalidomide - a potent tertogen - can not be consumed save at any levels by anyone. It is not a nutrient. Hysteria only makes thinking people turn away.

Schwarty, regarding your answer "Avoid them both! ": In other words, moderation in all intake of sugar (whether it be disaccharides like sucrose or monosaccharides like glucose or fructose. Common sense tells us that going overboard in any direction is a mistake - such is the case with products that contain relatively high levels of fructose - like sports drinks (which, by the way have only a few percent higher fructose than that can of cola that costs less - but other ingredients differ...).

Drink it if you are an athlete and need the fructose that will not be turned into triglycerides by the liver but will quickly be turned into ATP's for muslce fuel. If you are an average American (not enough exercise, eating too many calories) then you have no business consuming high-sugar ANYTHING. Equating fructose to thalidomide is LUDICROUS!

Thalidomide - a potent tertogen - can not be consumed save at any levels by anyone. It is not a nutrient. Hysteria only makes thinking people turn away.

2 Oops, I bumped a key...anyway, if you Google scholar the references you have regarding fructose danger, you will find that (2002) sucrose will elicit negative effects just like fructose (due to it's 50 percent fructose content)...so the message is (again) moderation...parents, don't buy sugary pop OR sports drinks for your kids (unless they are serious athletes). Drink water and maintain a safe weight and cholesterol level...boring but true! .

Oops, I bumped a key...anyway, if you Google scholar the references you have regarding fructose danger, you will find that (2002) sucrose will elicit negative effects just like fructose (due to it's 50 percent fructose content)...so the message is (again) moderation...parents, don't buy sugary pop OR sports drinks for your kids (unless they are serious athletes). Drink water and maintain a safe weight and cholesterol level...boring but true!

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Is high fructose corn syrup worse that fructose.

Gh fructose corn syrup is killing us slowly in this country and we do nothing about it. Why?

IF high fructose corn syrup were proven to be bad as a nutrient, how much would the economy be effected by having to.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.