date:Oct 30, 2012
urers: HFCS 55 is 55% fructose and 45 % glucose, and HFCS 42 is composed of 42% fructose and 58% glucose. HFCS 55 has the same relative sweetness as sugar.
Sucrose is a disaccharide made of fructose and glucose units bonded together. HFCS also contains fructose and glucose, but they are monosaccharides. They are free sugars, explains John S. White, Ph.D., nutritional biochemist and president, White Technical Research, Argenta, IL, scientific consultant to Corn Refiners Association (CRA).
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