High fructose corn syrup

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cnjg420
cnjg420 Posts: 405 Member
edited November 2024 in Food and Nutrition
Ok to eat or avoid

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  • crzycatlady1
    crzycatlady1 Posts: 1,930 Member
    I have no problem with it.
  • wizzybeth
    wizzybeth Posts: 3,574 Member
    I eat stuff with it.
  • ccsernica
    ccsernica Posts: 1,040 Member
    Chemically, fructose is fructose, whether it comes from HFCS or an apple. The difference is in what other nutrients you get along with it.
  • bunnyluv19
    bunnyluv19 Posts: 103 Member
    HFCS is a man-made franken-food.Its fattening and bad for your Health.Avoid at all costs. Eat cane sugar.
  • lorrpb
    lorrpb Posts: 11,463 Member
    I avoid it because that much sugar simply doesn't do anything for me except make me fat.
  • Lillymoo01
    Lillymoo01 Posts: 2,865 Member
    I avoid because I prefer calories that are of more benefit nutritionally and no longer crave sugar.
  • JaxxieKat
    JaxxieKat Posts: 427 Member
    It depends. It's not something I get my knickers in a twist over, but what I do find is that they tend to make foods more calorie dense, so I tend to stay away from really sweet processed foods unless I can work them into my daily calories without feeling deprived the rest of the day.
  • PaulaWallaDingDong
    PaulaWallaDingDong Posts: 4,648 Member
    It's delicious. I indulge in it from time to time.
  • johnwelk
    johnwelk Posts: 396 Member
    bunnyluv19 wrote: »
    HFCS is a man-made franken-food.Its fattening and bad for your Health.Avoid at all costs. Eat cane sugar.

    Completely wrong.

    HFCS is either 55% Fructose and 42% Glucose or 42% Fructose and 53% Glucose. Cane sugar is about 50/50 Fructose to glucose, pretty much the same thing as HCFS. It's not franken-food; that's just fearmongering. Do you think that cane sugar grows in neat little 5 pound bags on trees somewhere? It has to be processed, therefore it's also man made. It's not inherently fattening, eating more calories than you need is fattening. Unless you have a medical reason to not eat sugar, It's not bad for your health in the amounts most people ingest.
    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5174149/#__ffn_sectitle
  • AnvilHead
    AnvilHead Posts: 18,343 Member
    edited March 2017
    bunnyluv19 wrote: »
    HFCS is a man-made franken-food.Its fattening and bad for your Health.Avoid at all costs. Eat cane sugar.

    If one instead wants to look beyond the hype and fearmongering and look at actual science, here's a well-written, evidence-based and unbiased article on HFCS: http://www.bodyrecomposition.com/research-review/straight-talk-about-high-fructose-corn-syrup-what-it-is-and-what-it-aint-research-review.html/
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