High Fructose Corn Syrup and Diabetes

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High Fructose Corn Syrup and Diabetes, What Should You Do

"It's true that both high fructose corn syrup and table sugar are a combination of two simple sugars (fructose and glucose), which suggests they should have similar effects on the body. However, the lead author of the new research, Michael I. Goran, PhD, co-director of the Diabetes and Obesity Research Institute at the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, believes that it is more complicated.

The fact is, table sugar consists of about 50 percent fructose and 50 percent glucose. When it comes to high-fructose corn syrup, the mixture is a bit of a mystery since the percentages are not revealed on food labels. However, the mixture is believed to range from 42 to 55 percent--or higher--for fructose.

In fact, Goran reported that he found fructose levels in beverages sweetened with HFCS ranging up from 47 percent to 65 percent. So if the fructose percentage is higher than 50 percent, could it have a negative effect on diabetes?

That remains to be seen. Goran noted that their study finding "raises a lot of questions about fructose," even though it does not establish that HFCS causes diabetes."