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DESCRIPTION: Mercury content aside, is high fructose corn syrup worse than table sugar? Have a question about this video? Leave it in the comment section at http://nutritionfacts.org/videos/sugar-vs-corn-syrup/ and I’ll try to answer it! And check out the other videos on processed foods (http://nutritionfacts.org/topics/processed-foods/). Also, there are 1,449 other subjects (http://nutritionfacts.org/topics/) covered in the rest of my videos–please feel free to explore them as well!
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why?? cane sugar is refined and bleached.. they both seem ok in moderation. i'm a bit skeptical on the mercury thing. i'm surprised nothing has been said about mercury in hfcs before. i definitely need to cut down on sugar, period. i'm so hooked. it's like a drug!!
@miamiwax Thanks for the comment! Be sure to check out nutritionfacts. org for more information on the best sweeteners!
@DietSolutionReviews1 That sounds like the best plan. Thanks for commenting. 🙂
Yea, but pure cane isn't GMO.
Well, I think you forgot that high fructose corn syrup has mercury because it's a bottom feeder. I'm sure I read that somewhere.
Where does honey and maple syrup fit into this?
hmmmmmmm Corn Syrup is bad Sugar is good
Title should be high fructose corn syrup and not corn syrup it's not the same thing
The corn syrup is harder for our body to break down than the regular sugar
As good as sugar! Hahaha, a good one. Horse shit is "as good" as bull shit. "As good" meaning "no worse". Understandable, but its still shit!
Btw., corn syrup doesn't have fructose, so it must be preferable to sugar, no? Sugar's half and half.
Corn Syrup=gmo
you pos shit, dragging it on for nothing
Both are good😋
HFCS=high-fructose corn syrup, ZFCS=zero-fructose corn syrup (like Karo-brand light-colored corn syrup in the US). In both cases, the rest of the sugar in the product is glucose. For example, ZFCS is 100% glucose. HFCS-42 is 42% fructose and 58% glucose. Table sugar is 50% fructose and 50% glucose.
Now, getting to the point: The more fructose in a sugar mix, the worse it is for your body, assuming every other condition is equal.
ZFCS (0% fructose) is less bad than HFCS-42 (42% fructose) is less bad than table-sugar (50% fructose) is less bad than HFCS-55 (55% fructose) in terms of the bad effects of humans consuming these products, gram-for-gram.
However, they are all sugars, and they are all bad for you beyond a small required level of consumption. Does that clear it up? But fructose is worse than glucose, because it is metabolized (converted to usable energy , or to fat) in the liver, and stresses and fattens the liver, whereas glucose can be metabolized (burned) directly in muscles. There is a ton more details to it than what I write here, but this is the essence of it.
The video is confusing because the syrup bottle shown is a ZFCS, and not a HFCS. It is wrong to equate the table sugar on the left with the ZFCS on the right in terms of bodily badness. Adding more confusion, the video then uses a glass of Cola (soda) to symbolize HFCS.
Let me ask you something, would you rather eat a sugar cube or a table spoon of corn syrup? Sugar is not nearly as bad for you in soda compared to corn syrup.
You're completely surrounded, come out and drink your corn syrup.
When their equally bad. Why does europe change up the ingredients? I mean, stuff like Mountain Dew gets sold here, but you never read anything about corn syup or its synonyme on the label
One persons equally bad is another persons equally good