Eating too much fructose—like the sugar in soda and sweet snacks—can make liver scarring worse if you already have fatty liver disease, but cutting back on fructose can help your liver get healthier.

Eating too much fructose — like from sugary drinks — can overload your liver, turning the sugar into fat and raising your risk for fatty liver and heart problems.

If you eat less fructose—like the sugar in soda and candy—your liver will make less fat, even if you don’t eat fewer calories overall. This can help reduce fat buildup in the liver, especially if you’re overweight or have fatty liver disease.

Eating a lot of fat and a lot of sugar together is worse for your liver than eating just fat or just sugar — they team up to cause more damage.

How much fructose you eat doesn’t seem to affect liver fat in middle-aged adults — it might matter more where the fructose comes from, like fruit versus soda, rather than how much you eat.

Eating too much fructose, like from sugary drinks, makes your liver turn it into fat, which can build up and lead to fatty liver disease—even if you don't drink alcohol.