Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by throwit1979 4724 days ago
Except it takes about 5 seconds for sucrase in your small intestine to hydrolyze sugar into exactly the same substances present in HFCS. So it doesn't matter. At all.
1 comments

Most HFCS in use today is a mixture of 45% glucose / 55% fructose. Sucrose is 1 glucose molecule and 1 fructose molecule bonded together. If fructose is really the 'bad' thing here, then HFCS has more of it.
It can be even worse than that. Studies have found some HFCS to contain as much as 65% fructose.