Mind you, studies have been shown that
high levels of fructose make lab rats fat.
Not exact matches
It was found that
higher levels of blood pressure in people who consumed more
fructose and glucose, both sweeteners which are found in the most common sugar sweetener
made use
of by the beverage industry known as
high -
fructose corn syrup.
(lactose is the sugar found in dairy, glucose is your blood - sugar and is
made up
of a combo
of fructose and sucrose... etc) However, foods with
high fructose or sugar WILL affect your body's insulin
levels which explains why you might not feel great after eating them...
This range
of fructose content hardly
makes agave syrup a logical choice if you're hoping to avoid the
high levels of fructose in HFCS (
high fructose corn syrup).
Factors for this include governmental production quotas
of domestic sugar, subsidies
of U.S. corn, and an import tariff on foreign sugar; all
of which combine to raise the price
of sucrose to
levels above those
of the rest
of the world,
making high fructose corn syrup less costly for many sweetener applications.
Clever marketing has led many consumers to believe that the
high level of fructose in agave syrup
makes it a safe and a natural sweetener.