How much high fructose corn syrup is in soda?

How much fructose is really in soda?

Hello! Here is a study I though was interesting about soda and hfcs.: from October 26, 2010|By Karen Kaplan, Los Angeles Times

Researchers from the University of Southern California’s Keck School of Medicine went shopping in East Los Angeles and bought 23 cans and bottles of popular beverages. Then they sent them off to a laboratory in Massachusetts that used a technique called high-performance liquid chromatography to determine how much fructose, glucose and sucrose were in each sample. Each beverage was tested three times, and all samples were unlabeled.

**Fructose is sweeter than glucose and has been shown to do more damage to your metabolism.*** and to my son fructose isn't tolerated! 

Sucrose – better known as table sugar – is a 50-50 combination of fructose and glucose. **So if you're fructose intolerant you should steer clear of sucrose too! Or at least limit it.

The HFCS used in soda is supposed to contain no more than 55% fructose and 45% glucose, according to the Corn Refiners Assn. (Another popular formulation is 42% fructose and 58% glucose.) 

But it turns out that some of the stuff they put in soda isn’t HFCS, it’s RHFCS – Really High Fructose Corn Syrup.

The Keck researchers found that the sweeteners in Coca-Cola and Pepsi contained as much as 65% fructose (and only 35% glucose), and Sprite registered as much as 64% fructose (and 36% glucose).

The study included a few other surprises:

• Mountain Dew had 13% less sugar than advertised on the label, and Dr. Pepper had 8% less.
• Tested samples of Mexican Coca-Cola – which is supposedly made with cane sugar instead of HFCS – contained no sucrose, only fructose and glucose in a 52%-to-48% ratio.
• 17% of the sweetener in Red Bull was fructose, even though sucrose and glucose are the only sweeteners listed on the label.

Of course Nate can't have pop (as we call soda in cleveland) nor can his Dad who has hypoglycemia. Just interesting that even with reading labels we cannot always trust they are correct. So yes a cold soda looks refreshing but not worth it when your'e fructose intolerant.