In the past two or three days, major media in the United States are reporting that Coca-Cola will replace corn sugar with sugar, for example: As Trump pushes for cane sugar in Coca-Cola, is it really better than corn syrup? (Trump pushes the addition of cane sugar to Coca-Cola, is it really better than corn syrup?). Subtitle: Both will also increase risks of obesity, diabetes, hypertriglycerides and hypertension.
Make Coca-Cola Great Again published in "The Atlantic Magazine". Subtitle: Trump said Coca-Cola agreed to use real sugar to produce its carbonated beverages. Why do MAHA give me a wish?
MAHA is a minusculation of Make America Healthy Again, and it is the election number for current health minister Kennedy when he competes for the presidential position. This portal actually imitates Trump's election portal MAGA (Make America Great Again, making the United States bigger). Later, Kennedy went to Trump for his career, and the condition was to make him the health minister. After Trump was elected, he nominated Kennedy as Secretary of Health and issued an executive order on 2025-2-13 to establish the committee to "Make the United States healthy again."
I have published 15 articles about MAHA's various scientific practices. Interested readers can search on our website.
Regarding corn sugar, I published "High Fructose Corn Sugar" on 2017-1-18. Is it fatal? , the key points are:
1. The "high fructose corn sugar" is to make corn flour (that is, the starch used for cooking) completely transform the flour into glucose through a series of biochemical reactions, and then convert glucose locally (about 50%) into fructose.
2. Fructose is the most sweeter of the natural sugar we often take. Its sweetness index is 1.7. The sweetness index of honey, sucrose, and glucose is 1.1, 1, and 0.75 respectively. When we buy fruits, we always hope to buy sweet ones, that is, high in fructose.
3. "High fructose corn sugar" is divided into two types: "42 fructose" and "55 fructose". "42 fructose" contains 42% fructose, and "55 fructose" contains 55% fructose. The remaining is glucose.
4. Sucrose enters the digestive tract and is decomposed into fructose and glucose (50% each). Because "high fructose corn sugar" contains almost 50% fructose and 50% glucose, it is generally considered to be inconsistent with sucrose.
5. In the past 50 years, in the food and beverage industry in the United States, sucrose has been almost completely replaced by "high fructose corn sugar" and the reason for this is that "high fructose corn sugar" is cheaper than sucrose (about half the price). The reason why "high fructose corn sugar" is cheaper is that the US government has adopted various preferential measures to encourage the production of "high fructose corn sugar" (the United States is a corn country) in order to replenish its dependence on importing sugar and increase employment opportunities for the people.
6. I have read dozens of articles about "high fructose corn sugar stew". Most of these papers believe that there is no sufficient evidence to show that "high fructose corn sugar" is more likely to cause new Chen Daixi disease than sucrose. The U.S. FDA also published a special article saying that there is no sufficient evidence to show that "high fructose corn sugar" is more dangerous than sucrose.
7. Whether it is "high fructose corn sugar" or sucrose, I suggest that low amounts of ingestion are the goal.
It has been more than 8 years since this article was published in 2017, so I searched for related articles again, and found the effect of high-fructose corn syrup vs. sucrose on anthropometric and metabolic parameters: A systematic review and meta-analysis (The effect of high-fructose corn syrup vs. sucrose on anthropometric and metabolic parameters: A systematic review and meta-analysis (the impact of high-fructose corn syrup and sucrose on human measurement and thanksgiving parameters: systematic review and comprehensive analysis). Its conclusion is that compared with sucrose, "high fructose corn sugar" is significantly related to increased CRP levels. However, the effects of "high fructose corn sugar" and sucrose on body weight, waist, body quality index (BMI), fat mass, contraction pressure, suffocation pressure, fasting blood sugar, triglycerides, low-density lipoprotein, high-density lipoprotein and total sterol are not different.
CRP is a C-Reactive Protein print and is an inflammation index. This article does not discuss whether its correlation with "high fructose corn sugar" has a clinical meaning. I personally believe that since other health indexes (11 items in total) are no different, the impact of "high fructose corn sugar" and sucrose on health should be two or eight.
In the opening of this article, I have a report citing "NBC News". Dariush Mozaffarian, a famous cardiologist who visited, said: "High fructose corn sugar and sucrose are about 50% fructose and 50% glucose, and have the same credit effect.. ”
So, can sucrose replace corn sugar turn cole into a healthy drink?
Original text: Make Kele healthy again? Corn sugar vs sucroseEditor: Gu Zihuan