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" high fructose corn syrup" Are you the guy who's always on about that in weight-loss threads? I've been meaning to ask - fructose is a simple sugar, a five-membered ring with two CH2OH groups sticking off of it, and sucrose is a fructose plus a glucose - C12H22O11, or 2 C6H12O6 − H2O. That means it requires more energy to cleave the carbons from a molecule of sucrose and metabolize it. So how come fructose is more fattening than sucrose?

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Are you the guy who's always on about that in weight-loss threads?

No, but there's a few posters who are REALLY down on HFCS, as you have noted.

So how come fructose is more fattening than sucrose?

I dunno. When it comes to stuff like HFCS, I just use my "butter" rule-of-thumb. I remember when butter was going to cause the death of everyone on the planet, and you were REQUIRED to switch to margarine. The health Nazis lost me at that point, and I started ignoring their BS advice.

Years afterward, we discovered that margarine had the evil "trans-fats", and butter wasn't as bad.

So, when I view the HFCS versus sugar deal in soft drinks, I just remember that the same idiots that pushed margarine on us are responsible for pushing HFCS-sweetened soft drinks on us, too.