• tyler@programming.dev
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    14 days ago

    They’re not the same types of sugar. Your body uses glucose differently than fructose.

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      13 days ago

      They are both very high in fructose. What is your point? I genuinly don’t get it.

    • liuther9@lemmy.world
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      13 days ago

      What is the difference? Both harmful same way, glucose spikes, leads to obesity

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        13 days ago

        They are not. Monosaccharides are absorbed differently and used differently than disaccharides.

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      14 days ago

      The sugar in soda contains fructose (it is in fact 50% fructose). Soda with HFCS isn’t actually that much higher in fructose than plain sugar soda, ironically; the ‘high’ just means ‘higher than white sugar’.

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        14 days ago

        The “high” means greater than 55% fructose. HFCS has to be at minimum HFCS-55 according to the FDA. Many sodas mix HFCS-55 with HFCS-90 to increase the concentration. And I never said that soda doesn’t have fructose? Don’t know where you got that.