Not exact matches
Many confuse
pure «fructose» (a sugar also found in fruits and vegetables) with «high fructose corn
syrup,» a sweetener that never contains fructose alone but always in combination with a roughly equivalent amount of a second sugar (
glucose).
Be on the lookout during this challenge for: dextrose, maltodextrin, sucrose, fructose, cane sugar, evaporated cane juice, acesulfame potassium (sold as Sweet One — often combined with aspartame or sucralose to sweeten gum, diet soda and other sweet products), aspartame (Nutri - sweet and equal), saccharin (sold as Sweet n» Low), stevia (combined with sugar alcohol and sold under brand names like Truvia and
Pure Via), erythritol (a sugar alcohol derivative of corn) xylitol, brown rice
syrup (and other
syrups), high fructose corn
syrup (made by treating starch extracted from corn with enzymes to make fructose and
glucose)-- and if there's anything on a food label that you think might be sugar, google it.
Refiner's
syrup contains large quantities of fructose and
glucose in
pure form.
Pure glucose is sold in tablet or dextrose
syrup form and is commonly used by diabetics for low - blood sugar, but alone is not the ideal energy choice for running.
Carbohydrates, Glycogen and Blood
Glucose One of the major ingredients of sports drinks is carbohydrate (a.k.a.,
pure sugar, or high fructose corn
syrup) because it was thought that another reason for decreased athletic ability was due to depleted muscle carbohydrate content... and this is partly true.
In case you are not familiar; Wikipedia provides a very technical good definition: «High - fructose corn
syrup (HCFS)-- called isoglucose in Europe and
glucose - fructose in Canada — comprises any of a group of corn
syrups that has undergone enzymatic processing to convert its
glucose into fructose and has then been mixed with
pure corn
syrup (100 %
glucose) to produce a desired sweetness».
Chemically speaking, brown rice
syrup is basically
pure glucose with a glycemic index (GI) of 98 out of 100!