I know the headline sounds funny, but remember that could kill a diabetic.

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[–] 4 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Sugar or high fructose corn syrup?

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  • [–] [S] 25 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    HFCS is sugar. Just not cane sugar. And at the end of the day, sugar is sugar and we shouldn't be having it all the time.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Yes but I like making cheap jabs at the drink industry.

    On a serious note - you're absolutely right to avoid sugar, and I stopped drinking sweetened beverages many years ago. From what I understand though, people would develop fewer health problems if they consumed cane sugar instead of HFCS. Apparently the unbound fructose makes a difference when consuming sugar at such a high volume.

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  • [–] [S] 9 points 2 years ago (1 child)
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    Well that was an interesting rabbit hole. There have been a number of new studies in the past decade, and researchers are still investigating the effects of free fructose in sweeteners.

    This study is fairly recent: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8188419/

    This study notes how the actual amount of fructose varies from the expected amount in popular beverages: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0899900714001920

    Every study I read continues to point out that sweeteners with free fructose taste sweeter and have negative health effects in large quantities while stating how results are inconclusive due to excessively caloric intake. I'm still skeptical of HFCS for now.

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