High-Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS) While claims that HFCS is just as worse as sugar may exist, this is far from the truth. HFCS contains glucose and free-form monosaccharides of fructose, which are not biologically the same as sucrose. Sucrose (sugar) has glycosidic bond that combines glucose and fructose that make it harder to break down in the body. The liver is the only organ in the human body that can handle the metabolism of fructose, which the liver metabolizes directly into fat, the same way it does with alcohol. As…
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