HFCS

[forgotten_aria]

I'm getting more and more anecdotal evidence that HFCS make my mood fragile and negative. It's starting to mount high enough with both blind and not blind tests that I think that I'm justified in my personal paranoia of them.

Comments

[geekosaur]

Curious. Does natural fructose affect you the same way? Apples, pears, watermelons, most fruit juices, some raisins, and honey. Other fruits have fructose as well, but when there's more glucose than fructose the fructose is more easily metabolized.

[forgotten-aria.livejournal.com]

Fruit juices seem fine. I mostly only drink cranraspberry though, 100% juice. I don't consume much honey. I expect the extra fiber when consuming apples tends to compensate somehow.

[forgotten-aria.livejournal.com]

But I also suspect we're going to find out that HFCS are getting something weird from the processing or the crap corn it's made from.

From wikipedia, some of the processing involves these other items. I know it's purified, but...

1. Cornstarch is treated with alpha-amylase to produce shorter chains of sugars called oligosaccharides.
2. Glucoamylase - which is produced by Aspergillus, a fungus, in a fermentation vat — breaks the sugar chains down even further to yield the simple sugar glucose.
3. Xylose isomerase (aka glucose isomerase) converts glucose to a mixture of about 42% fructose and 50–52% glucose with some other sugars mixed in.

a rat study

[(Anonymous)]

You've heard how people start to need higher and higher doses of some drugs - say, cocaine - to get the same effect ? There was a rat study that divided the rats into two groups. Each got the same number of calories. But the group eating HFCS started to eat more and more, exactly as if there was some dose-dependent effect.

Now we need to repeat the study for a wider variety of foods.