http://www.iscnewsroom.com/2009/07/13/hfcs-to-sugar-switch-what-does-this-really-mean/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=hfcs-to-sugar-switch-what-does-this-really-mean Imperial Sugar Company online newsroom Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:43:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 http://www.iscnewsroom.com/2009/07/13/hfcs-to-sugar-switch-what-does-this-really-mean/comment-page-1/#comment-1440 Dwayne Barnaby Sun, 24 Oct 2010 01:06:34 +0000 http://www.iscnewsroom.com/?p=1157#comment-1440 Thank you very much for providing some honest suggestions on this topic. I have sought out a wide variety of reliable information about natural health and some poor recommendations. Do you have any more good ideas or places on the Internet that I can find more detailed information? This would be very much appreciated! So, keep up the good work! Thank you very much for providing some honest suggestions on this topic. I have sought out a wide variety of reliable information about natural health and some poor recommendations. Do you have any more good ideas or places on the Internet that I can find more detailed information? This would be very much appreciated! So, keep up the good work!

]]> http://www.iscnewsroom.com/2009/07/13/hfcs-to-sugar-switch-what-does-this-really-mean/comment-page-1/#comment-23 Cynthia1770 Tue, 14 Jul 2009 15:08:57 +0000 http://www.iscnewsroom.com/?p=1157#comment-23 Hi, Well it's nice to hear from you, Andy, because we sure hear a lot from Audrae. Relax, I'm on your side. There is a new JCI publication, Vol 119 May 2009, which driectly compares fructose-sweetened with glucose-sweetened beverages. In all parameters tested, the fructose-sweetened beverages give rise to serious health concerns. In your article you mention that there are no studies that directly compare sucrose with HFCS. The problem is that both sweeteners contain fructose and glucose. It would be hard to assess which simple sugar has the pronounced effect. The JCI reported research is different since 1. it was long term and 2. tested overweight individuals. Most previous research has investigated short term affects on healthy individuals (most likely normal weight, under paid grad students). Finally, as a former research technician I am driven crazy by the CRA's assurance that sucrose and HFCS are essesntially the same. Take the variant HFCS-55 which is used to sweeten all national brands of soda. While its composition, 55% fructose: 45% glucose, appears to be similar to the 50:50 composition of sucrose, when you do the math correctly, a different number emerges. 55%:45% = 55/45 = 1.22. This means that in every can of Coke (bottled in the USA) there is, compared to glucose, 22% more fructose. It is patently deceptive for them to make those claims. Mother nature didn't design the ratio; the CRA did. Now, to be fair, Americans eat too many sweetened foods, period. I spent a summer in Germany and went through slight sugar withdrawal. Everything is too sweet, but I deem HFCS the failed experiment. And you only have to vist a school yard and count the overweight children to assess the damage. To your health. Hi,
Well it’s nice to hear from you, Andy, because we sure hear a lot from Audrae. Relax, I’m on your side.
There is a new JCI publication, Vol 119 May 2009, which driectly compares fructose-sweetened with glucose-sweetened beverages. In all parameters tested, the fructose-sweetened beverages give rise to serious health concerns. In your article you mention that there are no studies that directly compare sucrose with HFCS. The problem is that both sweeteners contain fructose and glucose. It would be hard to assess which simple sugar has the pronounced effect. The JCI reported research is different since 1. it was long term and 2. tested overweight individuals. Most previous research has investigated short term affects on healthy individuals (most likely normal weight, under paid grad students).
Finally, as a former research technician I am driven crazy by the CRA’s assurance that sucrose and HFCS are essesntially the same. Take the variant HFCS-55 which is
used to sweeten all national brands of soda. While its
composition, 55% fructose: 45% glucose, appears to be similar to the 50:50 composition of sucrose, when you do the math correctly, a different number emerges.
55%:45% = 55/45 = 1.22. This means that in every can of Coke (bottled in the USA) there is, compared to glucose, 22% more fructose. It is patently deceptive for them to make those claims. Mother nature didn’t design the ratio; the CRA did. Now, to be fair, Americans eat too many sweetened foods, period. I spent a summer in Germany and
went through slight sugar withdrawal. Everything is too sweet, but I deem HFCS the failed experiment. And you only have to vist a school yard and count the overweight children to assess the damage. To your health.

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