High Fructose Corn Syrup Vs. Table Sugar (sucrose) Posted: 04-19-06 09:28am
Hi everyone.
My wife and I have both put on a few pound
since getting married two years ago, so we
are trying to slim down. She has made a
new rule that nothing that contains high
fructose corn syrup (hfcs) can be bought.
I was just fine with it until I wanted to
buy some guava juice to try it out. When
she checked the label it said that it was
sweetened by hfcs so she insisted that we
stay with the orange juice we usually
bought. So I in turn checked the label
of the orange juice. Although it was
naturally sweetened (no hfcs), it
contained the same amount of sugar
overall. I instinctively tried to act
like I knew what I was talking about and
told her that sugar is sugar and it
didn’t make a difference. She didn’t
buy it (literaly). So... Is sugar just
sugar? Or not?
Of course I am talking about as it applies
to weight loss. I don’t care that hfcs
can give you gas, because I don’t eat
that much anyway. I don’t have
diabetes or any mineral deficiencies.