This substance has been on my mind since I first discovered it in beverages a couple months ago. It has the sound of something natural, and for the longest time I have been under the false assumption that 'fructose' was strictly a fruit sugar. Not so.
I'm not going to go into the lengthy description of what it is and how it's processed by your body, you may need physics and biology degrees to understand some of it, and I have neither, so I'm not going to try and explain it. Basically it comes down to this. Crystalline fructose is a sugar that is created by letting fructose crystallize in 'fructose-enriched' corn syrup. Hmm.
Ergo, it is produced from and similar to HFCS, but NOT the same, however, both are high in fructose, which is broken down by the liver, and too much of this over time can have adverse effects, including a fatty liver and cirrhosis. Not good. And even more disturbing, (if that isn't enough), CF contains arsenic and other heavy metals, deadly poisons you do not want collecting in your body.
From now on there will be no more reviews of drinks by me personally on this website that contain this ingredient, and Danithius had agreed to the same. I am sorry for any previous promotion of any beverage containing this substance.
-WiseGuise
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Hi, thanks for linking to my post on crystalline fructose! I think it's great that you're not going to be recommending beverages to your readers that contain it. Besides being refined sugar, from what I've learned (and from the physical symptoms some of my readers have commented about), it's just not healthy. But like I said, it's refined sugar, and I don't recommend that to anyone. ;)
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