The end result is still a syrup made of simple sugars though. It's a long winded way of explaining the industrial process of breaking down starch into simple sugars. The enzyme alpha amylase is added to break down the starch and this same enzyme is found in your saliva.

For a better explanation than I could ever give, have a look at this article which also goes into detail with fructose and disease. :smiley:

Believed by some yes but I think the body is more than capable of processing simple sugars like glucose and fructose. We don't use GFS that much yet obesity levels still rose. It's a form of sugar just like any other, no worse than regular sugar or honey for example.

Too much of any sugar is of course not ideal. :smiley:

Glucose fructose syrup is in Heinz tomato ketchup?
I'll avoid the stuff then. Thanks for letting me know. :smiley:
Although I already had a suspicion the stuff had too much sugar anyway
so haven't touched ketchup in general for months!
Tomato sauce (the kind you find in a jar, for yer homemade pizzas like Ragu, Sainsbury's own brand, etc.)
taste better anyway. :sunglasses: (Although still contains significant sugar I think...still less than ketchup though,
depending on the brand of course.)

I bet McDonalds food (including ketchup)
has that nasty glucose fructose syrup and probably genetically modified stuff too.
I figure since one of the ingredients I saw was "modified maize starch" or corn or whatever....
I'm guessing that means it's genetically modified. :confused:
I thought in this country it was illegal to sell such products unless it's
sold with a very obvious piece of paper attached stating
the product contains GMO (genetically modified organism/s).

I won't touch any GMOs....there's been studies on GMOs causing
cancer in mice.:confused:

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