When you eat fructose (like in soda), your body burns more calories digesting it than when you eat the same amount of sugar from glucose (like in bread), because your liver has to work harder to turn...

Eating fructose (like in sugary drinks) makes your body store more fat around your organs and liver than eating the same amount of glucose, even if you’re not eating too many calories overall.

Your body wastes more energy as heat when it turns fructose into fuel compared to glucose, because fructose needs extra steps and more energy just to get started.

Drinking sugary sodas and other drinks high in fructose may cause your liver to make more fat than when you eat glucose, leading to fatty liver and other health problems.

Eating a lot of fructose, like from sugary drinks, might mess with your blood sugar and make your liver produce more fat, which could raise your chances of getting type 2 diabetes.

Eating too much fructose—like the sugar in soda and candy—can slow down your liver’s ability to burn fat, making fat build up and mess up your metabolism.