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To: truthfreedom
A tremendous amount of chemicals are used in the creation of hfcs. Why was mercury found in hfcs?

Because it was used in the process. Why is mercury found in tuna? Why is raney nickel found in vegetable oil, why are all sorts of dangerous chemicals found in decaffeinated and roasted coffee? Why is paint stripper (limonene) found in orange juice? Why is arsenic found in potatoes? Why is benzene found in the air we breathe?

The fiber, apparently, delays the absorbion of fructose.

No. Mono-saccharides are absorbed rapidly while the fiber goes straight through the small intestine. Fiber will not inhibit the absorption of fructose.

We don’t really know why, but we are finding more and more how different hfcs is from sugar

Then maybe you can explain how fructose and glucose from HFCS is chemically different from fructose and glucose from hydrolyzed sucrose.

And more study is needed.

Yup. Keep the money flowing. It's better than having to be productive and deliver results like the private sector demands.

115 posted on 04/22/2010 11:14:28 AM PDT by Mase (Save me from the people who would save me from myself!)
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To: Mase

I am a member of the hazmat team on our fire department. People do not seem to realize that trace amounts of chemicals generally have no effect on health at all. Arsenic for example is known as deadly poison, however small amounts can be beneficial in the treatment of certain medical conditions.


116 posted on 04/22/2010 11:22:45 AM PDT by fireman15 (Check your facts before making ignorant statements.)
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To: Mase

The fiber in natural fructose delays the absorption of the fructose.

People can say, over and over again, that sucrose is simply fructose and glucose, and hfcs is simply fructose and glucose, but it is simply not true.

Sucrose is broken down by the sucrase enzyme into fructose and glucose. That “broken down by the sucrase enzyme” part makes it different from hfcs.

That is only one way that sucrose is different from hfcs.


121 posted on 04/22/2010 12:32:21 PM PDT by truthfreedom
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