Things to know about the battle of the sweeteners
Sugar and high fructose corn syrup both contain glucose and fructose,
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What commonly called in everyday life is actually sucrose, a compound that 50 percent glucose and 50 percent fructose. Fructose is the most common sugar in fruit.
High fructose corn syrup is made up of the same two sugars. But as the name implies, one type of high fructose corn syrup has slightly more fructose than 55 percent and the rest is glucose. The other type has 42 percent fructose and 58 percent glucose.
Sugar producers argue their product is more natural and that high fructose corn syrup is as addictive as crack cocaine. Corn refiners counter that sugar producers are just trying to make up for market lost starting in the 1970s,
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Corn refiners lost a bid to change the name high fructose corn syrup to sugar when the Food and Drug Administration ruled in 2012 that sugar was a solid,
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Neutral experts in the debate between sugar and high fructose corn syrup say it all boils down to semantics and marketing.
Public opinion that once favored high fructose corn syrup has now tilted toward sugar.
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The trial isn likely to end the debate or wipe away confusion about sweeteners.
Sugar listed on packaging goes by many names and all of them mean one thing: a sweet taste.
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Some studies have shown that high fructose corn syrup causes fatty liver disease when fed to animals in experiments, but that when it accounts for 25 to 35 percent of the animal daily caloric intake an amount a human would never consume, Clemens says.