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If you search the board you will see Mother Linda's website has been mentioned many times before.
HFCS is not different from fructose. It contains fructose.
HFCS is a syrup composed of two sugars - glucose and fructose. In normal HFCS there is 45 grams of glucose and 55 grams of fructose per 100 grams. It contains 10 more grams of fructose compared to glucose per 100 grams.
Compare this to honey which typically contains 35 grams of glucose and 41 grams of fructose. It contains 6 grams more fructose than glucose.
People that are sensitive to fructose in HFCS are also sensitive to fructose in honey or any other food. An individual's sensitivity is determine by how much more fructose than glucose they can consume without experiencing IBS or IBS like symptoms.
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Wow, Syl, you sure are a scientist! You're very exacting. What I actually meant was that HFCS is a different ISSUE for me, not a different substance altogether. I assume everyone here knows HFCS contains fructose, but the information I've read recently about HFCS makes me question the safety of having it in our diets - IBS aside. I don't have the training you have, and perhaps what I'm reading is more pop culture than actual science, but how HFCS may act on the body scares me. I wouldn't give it to my children. (I don't have any, but you hear what I'm saying.) If you have a different take on HFCS, please feel free to share. I seem to be fructose-sensitive, but even before I knew that, I avoided HFCS.
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Thanks I read the package and couldn't find hfcs I am glad cause there pretty good!
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I buy the Quaker Oats Rice Cakes (caramel flavored). They have sugar in them but no hfcs. You can put peanut butter on them for a heavier snack or just eat them outta the bag and they come in 10 different flavors! They don't seem to bother my tummy so maybe they wouldn't hurt yours. The caramel isn't bad, and it's a good way for me to motivate myself to drink a nice cold bottle of water with a caramel rice cake, too! HFCS doesn't bother me if I really watch it and I try to keep a pint of Haagen-Daas Strawberry Sorbet in my fridge always! I guess we all have that sweet tooth in us! 
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There is a lot of hype about the problems of HFCS being added too many foods. However, the same hype should be applied to the use of other high fructose additions to foods such as honey and fruit juices, particularly apple and pear. Strange how so many people have picked up on the problems with HFCS and ignore that the same problems exist when other fructose containing sweeteners.
What I find humorous about the Mother Linda article is that the author comes close to saying but never says that the enzymes used to produce HFCS are a problem too. She couches true statements in hyperboles. For example, she say "There's a couple of other murky things that consumers should know about HFCS" and continues to talk about enzymes implying that because they are produced by genetically modified organisms that this is an additional problem. This nonsense plays on the unfounded fears that many people have about genetically modified organisms even though it has nothing to do with the contents of HFCS nor are they found in HFCS.
At the end of the article she does come to a reasonable conclusion "Since the effects of fructose are most severe in the growing organism, we need to think carefully about what kind of sweeteners we give to our children. Fruit juices should be strictly avoided--they are very high in fructose--but so should anything with HFCS." However, most people fail to recognize that she puts other high fructose containing foods in the same basket with HFCS. Strange! 
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Oh i just got the strawberry its awesome the peach is even better!
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Syl, thank you for going into that for me. It's very interesting information.
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For those with fructose sensitivity they need to know honey and fruit juice are as dangerous as HFCS, but for those not affected by fructose in that way it is entirely ludicrous to compare HFCS and honey. Honey is the way God made it and for those without fructose issues it is definitely a healthier alternative to the man-produced HFCS. Why do you keep defending HFCS when you are fructose sensitive? It is completely idiotic to say HFCS is as healthy as honey or fruit. Honey and fruit have been a part of healthy diets all over the world for thousands of years. I agree the intake of fruit juice needs to be lessened in our world but then just say that, don't defend HFCS for no reason. I just don't understand it and cannot listen to it anymore!!!
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You will never see me defend the nutritional value of HFCS or any other man-made or natural sugars!
There is no question in my mind that fruits and juices are extremely nutritious!
However, I do point out that when it comes to fructose sensitive individuals that nutritious sources of fructose are just as bad as HFCS. AND if HFCS in food increases your IBS symptoms then it quite possible that honey and some fruits and fruit juices will too!
And I do point out misinformation and myths about any food or supplement including HFCS! I hope others will do the same!
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But why must you endelessly defend and point out myths, in your opinion, about HFCS?
I agree that someone who is fructose sensitive needs to be aware that all sources of fructose will bother them and that HFCS as well as fruit juices are dangerous for them. But it should be left at that. There is no reason to make people think that HFCS is benign. There is no reason to defend its merits or point out how close to nature you think it is. And there is no reason to vilify natural sources of fructose for those not fructose sensitive.
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"You absolutely must eat insoluble fiber foods, and as much as safely possible, but within the IBS dietary guidelines. Treat insoluble fiber foods with suitable caution, and you'll be able to enjoy a wide variety of them, in very healthy quantities, without problem." Please eat IF foods!
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