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Fructose in sentence

18 examples of Fructose in a sentence

There's brown rice syrup, barley malt, demerara, Florida Crystals, muscovado, and, of course, high fructose corn syrup, sometimes called HFCS, or corn sugar.
What's the difference between glucose and fructose?
Fructose, on the other hand, is metabolized primarily in the liver, and when your liver gets overloaded with sweet, sweet fructose, the excess is metabolized to fat.
Fresh fruits actually contain fructose, but it's naturally occurring and doesn't cause an overload because the fiber in fruit slows its absorption.
Glucose, fructose, and galactose are all simple sugars.
Glucose, fructose, sucrose, maltose, lactose, dextrose, and starch are all forms of sugar.
A molecular mass of 180 could be either the glucose, galactose or fructose.
Dietary sucrose – or common table sugar – is composed of two molecules in equal proportion: glucose and fructose.
Conversely, fructose, while also an energy source, is a vestigial nutrient for humans; our cells do not need it to function.
My research has shown that when fructose is eaten in excess of the liver’s ability to metabolize it, the surplus is turned into liver fat, and those deposits can promote insulin resistance and contribute to development of NCDs.
Fructose also influences dietary sugar consumption.
Sucrose and high-fructose corn syrup are comprised of one molecule of glucose (not especially sweet) and one molecule of fructose (very sweet).
While glucose is metabolized by the glycolytic pathway, fructose is metabolized by the lipolytic pathway, and is not insulin-regulated.
Worse yet, other than the ephemeral pleasure that it provides, there is not a single biochemical process that requires dietary fructose; it is a vestigial nutrient, left over from the evolutionary differentiation between plants and animals.
Fats, carbohydrates, fructose, and glucose are all metabolized differently in the body.
The other NAFTA partner, Canada, has similarly experienced a rise in obesity, partly because US imports have led to a sharp decline in the price of fructose.
By itself, the fruit’s fructose isn’t particularly healthy, and when eaten in large quantities, it increases the risk of diabetes, heart disease, and other non-communicable diseases.
But when the fruit’s sugars are digested along with its fibers, absorption of fructose in the body slows, and the fruit is metabolically healthier.