Is Fructose as Addictive as Alcohol?

May 2nd, 2018

By Sayer Ji

Contributing writer for Wake Up World

Millions of pounds are consumed annually, yet it may be more like a drug than a food, and just as damaging and addictive as alcohol…

Fructose, which literally means “fruit sugar,” sounds so sweet and innocent. And indeed, when incorporated into the diet in moderate amounts in the form of fruit – always organic and raw, when possible – it’s about as pure and wholesome as any biomolecule inseparably complexed with vitamins, fiber, plant stem cells, antioxidants, etc. (i.e. as a whole food) can get.

Not so for industrially processed fructose in isolate form, which may be as addictive as alcohol [i] and perhaps even morphine [ii] [iii] — a substance which, according to USDA research published in 2008 into major trends in U.S. food consumption patterns between 1970-2005, we now consume at the rate of at least 50 lbs a year — the ‘800 ounce gorilla’ in the room.[iv]

Our dietary exposure to fructose, of course, is primarily through either sugar (sucrose), which is a disaccharide comprised of 50% fructose and 50% glucose by weight, or through high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS), which is mostly a 55% fructose and 45% glucose blend of monosaccharides, but goes as high as 90% fructose and 10% glucose in HFCS-90 form. Pasteurized fruit juices are another concentrated source of fructose, but increasingly even pasteurized fruit juice is being adulterated with additional sugar or HFCS for reasons that have mostly to do with protecting the manufacturer’s bottom line.

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