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Originally Posted by Blacklight
You can still buy Dr. Pepper from it's original plant made with the original recipe that uses cane sugar instead of corn syrup.  |
Chemically, cane sugar is no different to saccharose, it does the same kind of damage to your metabolism.
Corn syrup in German is glucose-fructose-syrup. Both substances make for over 90% of its content. what has to be criticised in consuming fructose (see above) and glucose, applies to this syrup, too. Glucose in industrial food and sweets is, like salt, so very omnipresent that we eat several times as much of it as is healthy or needed. This constant shift towards increaisng the hyperglycaemic index has it'S own health-risks.
Forget these many urban legends about the one kind of sugar being more healthy than the other. We eat several times too much of it, and that's why it makes most of us ill. Diabetes also is a new pandemic disease in western civilisations. Many people believe they are on the safe side rhen using cane sugar instead of white sugar, or when consuming dextrose (glucose). They are wrong. It's just cheating advertising.
And such advertising in my book is fulfilling the legal case of physical injury. Advertising for sweets should be banned like adverts for alcohol and tobacco, and for the same reasons.