Fructose syrup is made from corn starch hydrolysis and isomerization of fructose and glucose combination, belongs to the starch sugar, is a kind of food raw materials, although appeared as a sweetener, but not as a food additive in China. As a food raw material, and sucrose than, fructose syrup with its absolute advantage to quickly occupy the food processing market, has been most, as well as the future trend of all instead of sucrose.
First of all, in the current situation of relatively stable corn prices, compared with sucrose, its production cost is low, cost-effective.
Secondly, fructose syrup contains a considerable amount of fructose (42% to 90%), and when used with other sweeteners***, the synergistic effect will make the sweetness potent and more vivid.
Third, fructose has a characteristic that the lower the temperature below 40 degrees, the higher the sweetness. Therefore, fructose syrup is more often found in beverages and cold foods, such as carbonated beverages, juice drinks, yogurt,
ice cream and so on.
Fourth, the high solubility and good permeability of fructose is also suitable for the production of dried fruit, candied fruit and other candied food applications.
Seeing this may understand the reason why fructose syrup is loved by food companies, but standing in the consumer's point of view, in addition to feeling richer sweetness, there is no other impact?
Fructose syrup because of the large amount of fructose, less impact on blood sugar, but directly absorbed by the liver into neutral fat, so eat a lot of cold drinks or beverages will lead to obesity, which can paralyze the nerves, so that people have a sense of hunger, the more you drink the more you want to drink. In addition, some studies have proved that, compared with glucose, fructose syrup is more likely to cause fat deposition in human internal organs. Fructose is mainly metabolized in the liver, excessive intake of fructose syrup will also increase the burden on the liver, resulting in fatty liver and other liver diseases. At the same time, gout patients or high uric acid people are not recommended to consume too much fructose syrup, a large intake of fructose syrup will also increase blood uric acid, researchers found that the more fructose syrup intake, the higher the likelihood of gout in the future.
So it seems that this is a baby for business, for consumers is not as good as imagined. But you can't stop eating for fear of choking, the good thing is that the ones with fructose syrup present are processed foods, and these have always been the so-called delicacies that have been painstakingly made to be eaten sparingly and sparingly. If you follow the more natural and roughly processed foods and less refined foods, the intake of fructose syrup will not be very high, or as the saying goes, just eat less.