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Doing a lot of exercise at the moment and been drinking a Yazoo chocolate milk 3-4 times a week cos I read somewhere chocolate milk was a good recovery drink. Just looking at the ingredients list last night and it has a fair bit of Fructose Corn Syrup which I'm sure has had some bad press. Wikipedia seems to think no definite issues have been caused by it other than some links to obesity and diabetes.
Anyone know more? Got any reliable links?
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some people have stomach issues with fructose
i seem to remember it gets digested VERY quickly, which for a lot of folk gives them a quick high and a massive low, along with easily being converted to mass storage 🙂 post exercise though, it's probably exactly what you need!
*my memory could be hazy, and I can't remember the exact detail, but that sounds familiar!
high-fructose corn syrup seems to ring a bell for issues
Normal milk is probably better than any flavoured stuff.
I think you can be quite sure it isn't going to be of benefit to your health.
I don't think it has any particular harmful effects other than its purely empty calories - calories with no other nutritional value.
Its usually used because its a cheap filler that does not taste as sweet as some sugars.
Empty calories like this are implicated in obesity and thus diabetes but not really bad in the context in which you are having it.
[url= http://http://www.sweetsurprise.com/news-and-press/press-releases/HFCS-free-false-health-halo ]http://www.sweetsurprise.com/news-and-press/press-releases/HFCS-free-false-health-halo[/url]Some info
i tend to stay away simply because they are so acidic.
i would go fore something a bit more mellow like rice syrup.
I used to make the stuff,
Pure fructose is an isomerised dextrose polymer. It occurs naturally in fruit, but to make it from corn starch you first need to create detrose, then pass this through column of imobilised enzymes that perform the molecular switch that changes dextrose molecule into a fructose molecule.
The speed of absorbtion for both dextrose and fuctose is similarly high because they are both monomers (single molecules, not a chain of molecules like maltose[2] or malto-triose[3]) but fructose is less sweet to the taste, so food manufacturers may chose this over dextrose or any other sugar based on the taste they are looking for. Simple sugar = fast release with high blood sugar spike (with slump after). Complex sugars = slow release over longer period of time, less pronounced slump.
Like any simple sugar it should be used in moderation and is no more a cause of obesity than if people were to eat spoonfuls of any other sugar. Normal sugar is sucrose, which is a dextrose molecule joined to a fructose one.
HFCS is a corn derived glucose that's gone through partial isomerisation to convert some dextrose into fructose. There are commercial reasons why they do this around the economics of the isomerisation process and also there are european quotas on how much fructose and in what concentrations it can be manufactured.
HFCS is mentioned alot in Fast Food Nation, as being a BAD THING, along with palm oil. I can't remember exactly why (whether it was health or socio-economic), so I won't even try to bluff. Interesting book though.
This site isn't too keen on it...
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