Scientists say sugar is as toxic as alcohol – and there should be a drinking age for soda

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128. Sure it does

Table sugar is a disaccharide composed of fructose and glucose. HFCS also has fructose and glucose in pretty close to the same proportions which is why it has pretty close to the same relative sweetness as table sugar, which was the intent. HFCS is designed to be a direct replacement (as far as sweetness goes) for table sugar. It's made from corn starch that has gone through enzymatic processing to convert the starches to glucose which is the first step (this produces essentially the equivelant of Karo light corn syrup). An additional enzymatic process converts some of the glucose to fructose and you get HFCS.

Now certainly many people have made arguments that the body reacts differently to HFCS vs table sugar, but chemically speaking they are nearly identical. The biggest difference is HFCS is not in disacharide form like table sugar.