http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-fructose_corn_syrup

"Cane and beet sugar

Cane sugar and beet sugar are both relatively pure sucrose. While the 
glucose and fructose which are the two components of HFCS are 
monosaccharides, sucrose is a disaccharide composed of glucose and 
fructose linked together with a relatively weak glycosidic bond. A 
molecule of sucrose (with a chemical formula of C12H22O11) can be broken 
down into a molecule of glucose (C6H12O6) plus a molecule of fructose 
(also C6H12O6 — an isomer of glucose) in a weakly acidic environment. 
Sucrose is broken down during digestion into fructose and glucose 
through hydrolysis by the enzyme sucrase, by which the body regulates 
the rate of sucrose breakdown. Without this regulation mechanism, the 
body has less control over the rate of sugar absorption into the 
bloodstream.

The fact that sucrose is composed of glucose and fructose units 
chemically bonded complicates the comparison between cane sugar and 
HFCS. Sucrose, glucose and fructose are unique, distinct molecules. 
Sucrose is broken down into its constituent monosaccharides – namely, 
fructose and glucose – in weakly acidic environments by a process called 
inversion.[13] This same process occurs in the stomach and in the small 
intestine during the digestion of sucrose into fructose and glucose. 
People with sucrase deficiency cannot digest (break down) sucrose and 
thus exhibit sucrose intolerance.[14]"

Steve

Andrea Hughett wrote:
> While I am not fan of fructose or any other sugar, I question whether HFCS can be guilty of everything with which it is charged.  Sucrose is, I believe, half fructose and half glucose. HFCS is 55% fructose, 45% glucose.  Do I have those figures wrong, or does that extra 5% really make that much difference?
> 
> Andrea
> 
> --- On Wed, 7/1/09, steve <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 
>> From: steve <[log in to unmask]>
>> Subject: Re: Zero Carb
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Date: Wednesday, July 1, 2009, 5:02 PM
>> Robert Kesterson wrote:
>>> On Wed, 01 Jul 2009 12:41:34 -0500, Bill Wilcox <[log in to unmask]>
>> wrote:
>>>> The worse part of high fructose corn syrup is the
>> fructose, not the glucose.
>>> Actually I think the worst thing about HFCS is that it
>> is added to almost everything these days.  It is
>> amazing to me how hard it is to find anything in the grocery
>> store outside the produce and meat aisles that don't have
>> added sugar, HFCS, or some other form of sugar.
>>
>> The US sugar industry lobbied congress to impose tariffs on
>> imported sugar so US food manufactures converted to corn
>> syrup many years back as a cheaper way to sweeten their
>> products.  This is, in my opinion, part of the genesis
>> of the obesity epidemic and has an impact on heart disease
>> since fructose converts almost directly to trigs.
>>
>> I'm a free market person and don't believe in protecting
>> domestic industries since it mis-allocates capitol resulting
>> in decreased economic activity, decreased jobs, and
>> increased prices for US consumers.
>>
>> -- 
>> Steve - [log in to unmask]
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>> run out of Other People's Money." --Margaret Thatcher
>>
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