Talk:High fructose corn syrup and health

FYI - a recent meta-analysis
Reading through the talk page discussion, this recent analysis may be helpful: "Sucrose, high-fructose corn syrup, and fructose, their metabolism and potential health effects: what do we really know?"

From the abstract: "[A] broad scientific consensus has emerged that there are no metabolic or endocrine response differences between HFCS and sucrose related to obesity or any other adverse health outcome. This equivalence is not surprising given that both of these sugars contain approximately equal amounts of fructose and glucose, contain the same number of calories, possess the same level of sweetness, and are absorbed identically through the gastrointestinal tract. Research comparing pure fructose with pure glucose, although interesting from a scientific point of view, has limited application to human nutrition given that neither is consumed to an appreciable degree in isolation in the human diet."

The article discusses a number of issues that seem to have come up here, like the confusion between studies on pure fructose vs. actual studies on HFCS, comparisons with other sugars like sucrose, etc. I don't plan to make any changes in the article, but this may provide helpful information. 66.57.186.93 (talk) 00:35, 20 October 2014 (UTC)

HFCS no more dangerous than sucrose
Is there any review that says it is more dangerous (or even might be)? If not, then we should re-add that sentence to the lede. --sciencewatcher (talk) 17:10, 6 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Agreed, if the highest quality sources say they are not more dangerous, that is what we should state. Yobol (talk) 23:25, 6 May 2015 (UTC)