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HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP AND FRUCTOSE, THE DIFFERENCES
There is a great deal of confusion about fructose and high fructose corn syrup (HFCS). They are not the same. The term “high fructose corn syrup” (also known as corn sugar) suggests that HFCS is a fructose sweetener but this is only partly true. In fact, corn sugar contains nearly equal amounts of the simple sugars glucose and fructose. A range of formulas of HFCS with varying ratios of fructose to glucose are used in various food applications, such baked good, beverages, processed fruits, condiments, frozen desserts, jams, jellies, and pickles.
Fructose, a simple sweetener, naturally occurring in many fruits and vegetables, is also found in the added sugars, sucrose, crystalline fructose and corn sugar. Sucrose is made up of glucose and fructose so is very similar in composition to high fructose corn syrup. Crystalline fructose can be produced from corn starch or sucrose and contains fructose alone. Crystalline fructose is primarily used in dry mix beverages, low-calorie products, flavored water, still and carbonated beverages, sports and energy drinks, chocolate milk, breakfast cereals, baked goods, yogurt, fruit packs and confections.
Since pure crystalline fructose and sucrose have their own unique properties, each is uniquely suited for different applications. Fructose is the sweetest of all nutritive sweeteners with approximately 1.2 to 1.8 times the sweetness of sucrose in most food applications. Less fructose can be used to achieve the same sweetness, thereby saving calories. Importantly, fructose also has a low glycemic index and does not cause surges and dips in blood glucose levels relative to glucose and sucrose. Fructose reacts synergistically with other sweeteners and starches in a way that boosts the sweetness and other properties of certain foods and beverages. Fructose also is among the least cariogenic of the nutritive sugars.
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1281 kcal
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Fat: 46.52g | Prot: 64.29g | Carbs: 166.82g.
Breakfast: Trader Joe's Boneless Beef Rib Eye Steak, Hampton Hills Fajita Vegetable Mix, Sarabeth's Orange Apricot Marmalade, Dave's Killer Bread 21 Whole Grains & Seeds Thin-Sliced, POM Wonderful 100% Pomegranate Juice, Maxwell House International Cafe Orange, Egg, Welch’s grape juice and Hibiscus drink. Lunch: Cooked Green String Beans (from Frozen), La Megara Sardines with lemon, Vegetable Soup (Home Recipe), Dave's Killer Bread Thin-Sliced Organic Bread 21 Whole Grains & Seeds, Cantaloupe Melons. Dinner: Sprouts Farmers Market Seedsational Whole Grain Bread, Barilla Whole Grain Thin Spaghetti Pasta, Homemade-Style Spaghetti Sauce with Beef or Meat, Cooked Broccoli (from Fresh), HEB Broccolini. Snacks/Other: Honeymaid Chocolate Grahams. more...
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1604 kcal
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Exercise:
Walking (slow) - 2/mph - 30 minutes, Cooking - 2 hours, Housework - 3 hours, Resting - 10 hours and 30 minutes, Sleeping - 8 hours. more...
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