Agave is touted by marketers as a healthy sweetener because it has a low glycemic index, but it's actually
worse than table sugar.
So HFCS is clearly
worse than table sugar, but not orders of magnitude.
Can you believe that, and for all this time people have been swallowing bags of rice cakes not knowing they are recognized by the body as
worse than table sugar.
Not exact matches
In fact, some research says it's
WORSE for you
than HFCS or even
table sugar: http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/06/
sugar-wars/372220/ I like the cute little pictorial in there:.
Skoop uses coconut
sugar in both of these products, which I'd classify as «slightly less
bad»
than table sugar or HFCS.
And on the matter of HFCS itself: Whether or not people believe that HFCS is any
worse than regular
table sugar, the fact is that any refined
sugar not only has no nutritional value whatsoever — it's actually an anti-nutrient, which means your body uses up valuable resources to process it.
Researchers at Joslin Diabetes Center now have found that mice on a fatty diet who were given high levels of fructose in their diet suffered much
worse metabolic effects
than those given similar calories of glucose (the other component in
table sugar).
Is it much
worse for you
than refined white
table sugar?
Table scraps not only add more of fat, salt, and
sugar than your canine needs — they also teach
bad habits of begging.