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Is high-fructose corn syrup really worse than sugar?

By Michelle Edelbaum, January 15, 2010 - 1:27pm

Michelle asks: Do you avoid high fructose corn syrup more than sugar?

COMMENTS	POSTED
Yes... in additional to the issue of whether it is worse than sugar, it does contain toxins (mercury and others) which create inflammation and other issues with your immune system and metabolism. Despite FDA approving the use of the term "natural' for HFCS, I believe their criteria is too loose. Also, the process to make it is chemical and more involved. See earlier part of this article. — Anonymous	03/19/2013 - 10:11am
This blog is so biased to almost everything that is bad in the food industry today. And the way it is presented is so believable.To everyone reading this, please do your research before believing you read on this blog. That's all DO YOUR RESEARCH.. Thank you. I know form first hand experience that each time I eat any processed food with HFCS, I am not able to STOP eating it. I know first hand , I get constipated, bloated and gain weigh while consuming HFCS. — Anonymous	02/08/2013 - 11:54am
No, it does not matter to me if the calories are from sugar or HFCS. Calories are calories. — Anonymous	11/26/2012 - 2:10pm
So........Is the answer that HFCS is the same as regular sugar? — Anonymous	08/26/2012 - 10:08pm
YES — Anonymous	08/22/2012 - 8:53am
I am not sure what I read, is it worse or not? Sounds like you are saying it is not, up until I read this I was avoiding it at all costs cause I was told by 2 RN's to avoid it. Now I am not so sure? — Anonymous	06/03/2012 - 12:20pm
Less than 4 months after this was posted a study done at Princeton concerning HFCS was released. The study showed that even with the same number of calories lab rats gained significantly more weight when dining on HFCS than on regular sugar. — Anonymous	05/15/2012 - 7:56am
Yes. There are studies that have shown that people that consume higher levels of hfcs have more fat accumulated around their heart and liver area. Studies, plural. And hfcs is a man-made, chemically modified product, produced from largely genetically modified corn. That's enough Information for me. — Anonymous	03/15/2012 - 12:16pm
High fructose corn syrup has certain adverse effect on Health and must be avoided. vpn — cochran1011	01/02/2012 - 3:01am
I applaud your going out to try to find out what the difference is between HFCS and sugar, but I come away still uncertain. In the end, I think I will treat sugar and HFCS the same way as I do carbohydrates and fats, and that is, they are all necessary for the proper functioning of the human body, but an excess of any of them will cause obesity and potential problems. Therefore, I'll just monitor what I eat and use moderation, balancing them all, but avoiding none. Hey, isn't that what the food pyramid tells us to do? Well, imagine that! — Anonymous	11/16/2010 - 1:18pm