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Igel

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12. Perhaps for flavor.

Tue Jul 22, 2025, 05:06 PM

Jul 22

But the sucrose hits your stomach, with its acid, and it breaks down to fructose and glucose. Your cells can't break down sucrose otherwise. So unless that 55/45 (roughly) split of HFCS means that +5/-5 skew is crucial for health, uh, then they're ultimately the same.

How "fresh" the Coke has to be depends on the chemical kinetics of sucrose hydrolysis at the storage temperature and acidity levels. Acidity may be by specification, but temperature's gonna vary.

Sucrose is a disaccharide, the other two are monosaccharides. Starch is an oligosaccharide and breaks down (starting in your mouth) into glucose and maltose, then to just glucose. Because our cells like glucose. Fructose gets converted.

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