Why your soda might have more sugar than you think
Fructose content in popular beverages made with and without high-fructose corn syrup.
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Soda and some fruit juices have more fructose (a type of sugar) than regular table sugar, but nutrition labels don’t show this difference.
No biological mechanisms were identified in this study. This may be an epidemiological, observational, or survey-based study that reports associations rather than proposing causal biological pathways.
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Not medical advice. For informational purposes only. Always consult a healthcare professional. Terms
Soda and some fruit juices have more fructose (a type of sugar) than regular table sugar, but nutrition labels don’t show this difference.
No biological mechanisms were identified in this study. This may be an epidemiological, observational, or survey-based study that reports associations rather than proposing causal biological pathways.
Systematic Reviews & Meta-Analyses
Max 100Randomized Controlled Trials
Max 90Cohort Studies
Max 72Case-Control Studies
Max 58Cross-Sectional Studies
Max 44Case Reports & Case Series
Max 30Expert Opinion & Narrative Reviews
Max 533 / 44
Evidence Score
A snapshot of a population at a single point in time. Can identify correlations and prevalence, but cannot determine the direction of cause and effect.
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Walker RW, Dumke KA, Goran MI
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Beverages sweetened with high-fructose corn syrup contain more fructose relative to glucose than table sugar does, and because dietary surveys treat all added sugars as if they were table sugar, they may not accurately capture how much fructose people are consuming.
Some sweetened drinks and fruit juices have more unbound fructose sugar than table sugar, which is made of fructose and glucose molecules stuck together.
Beverages sweetened with high-fructose corn syrup have about 60.6% fructose and 40.4% glucose by weight, making fructose 50% more abundant than glucose. This differs from table sugar, which contains equal amounts of fructose and glucose.
Fruit juices made purely from fruit can have up to 67% of their sugar as fructose, which is about twice as much as glucose, making their sugar profile similar to that of sodas sweetened with high-fructose corn syrup.
When scientists measure the sugar in drinks sweetened with high-fructose corn syrup using three different lab methods, they get the same results for the ratio of fructose to glucose, showing the measurements are consistent.