James Silverton wrote:
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> HFCS means "high fructose corn syrup" and just what is supposed to be
> wrong with fructose? Fructose is half of the sucrose molecule anyway
> (the rest is glucose).

There are studies that fed one set of rats cane/beet sugar and another
set of rats HFCS. Both sets of rats got fat. The HFCS set of rats got
fatter on the same number of calories.

I think that effect is the smaller of two effects. I think the biggest
effect is price. In the US HFCS costs less so manufactures use more. A
product with more sugar tends to be more fattening than a product with
less sugar.