Several reality checks:
1. Sucrose converts to Glucose and Fructose before it even reaches your internal systems.
2. 55 HFCS is scantly (5%) more Fructose (55%) than Sucrose (50%). 42 HCFS actually has even less.
3. The infamous rat experiment did not account for rats prefering the sweeter taste occuring in Fructose than Sucrose. The scientific use the terms “significantly more than” does not mean “considerably more than,” but merely that the difference was more than chance error suggests it would likely be. However, since other tests contradicted this experiment, and significance was obtained only be excluding female rats (and all other tests), it could likely be chance, or the rats resulting to more sweetness.
4. Fructose is more “natural” than Sucrose, occurring far more commonly in sweet foods which would comprise a pre-industrial diet, including honey and most fruits including apples, pears, bananas, melons, and citrus.
5. The symptoms of metabolic syndrome detected in the rats are more likely bodily defense mechanisms against blood-sugar toxicity than causes of poor health. Yes, it’s far better to store excess blood sugar as fat than leave it circulating in your body. However, it’s almost certainly a moot point as there is metabolically no distinction between HCFS and sucrose other than taste.
On the other hand,
1. Regardless of the preference of the rats, sucrose tastes much better than HCFS.