Comments on: crystalline fructose

By: Nick

Nick — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 05:18:56 +0000

You are a pack of snuffs. Just relax. The air you breath probably has more harmful s$%t in it than what your all carrying on about.

By: Becky M

Becky M — Sat, 23 Jul 2011 23:24:28 +0000

Folks, please watch Forks Over Knives, or read Rip Esselstyn’s Fire Engine 2 Diet book, and you’ll see how all this discussion about synthesized sweeteners and fats/oils trick our body into thinking it isn’t full.

For those who want to drink sweet stuff – try mixing plain seltzer (or flavored) with a dash (or 2) of your favorite pure fruit juice. It beats any Vitamin Water or newfangled fusion drink. Works for my kids. We’ve been diluting most regular bottled juices with water – 50/50 ratio – and after several years, we’ve grown to dislike the ultra-sweet drinks out there.

By: Martha Hendry

Martha Hendry — Sat, 28 May 2011 16:01:53 +0000

I am willing to bet that the publishers of this garbage have something to gain by calling HCFS unsafe. If we continue to listen to these clowns we will all die of starvation or go to a strictly vegan, raw diet! This crap is totally insanity. My mothetr is 85 years old and she hasn’t died of any aresenic and eat’s whatever in the world she wants. She is 130 lbs and beautiful! She’s enjoyed her life and not spent it nitpicking silly stuff. Drink vitamin water for 10 years and die of arsenic build up? Yeah right!

By: Erika

Erika — Thu, 19 May 2011 15:54:21 +0000

Drink water! That’s what we need. Clean, pure water. Not that too many can find that version of it anymore, but here’s to tryin’. (Raises glass of filtered water.)

By: Tammy Smith

Tammy Smith — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 09:59:28 +0000

I am not a chemist, but I can tell you that when both my daughter and I drank “Vitamin Water” we got headaches every time. We stopped drinking it and no headaches. I think that tells you something right there!

By: Crystalline fructose | TrueConvictionDesigns

Crystalline fructose | TrueConvictionDesigns — Sat, 05 Mar 2011 04:49:44 +0000

[...] crystalline fructose : The Golden SpiralI am referring to crystalline fructose. It is produced by allowing HFCS to crystallize. It is then dried and milled into the desired particle size for packaging. As a result, it is 100% fructose. … [...]

By: Bill

Bill — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 01:45:20 +0000

Fructose can exist either as a six member ring called Fructopyranose or as a five member ring called Fructofuranose. In solution there would be some of each. Crystalline fructose occurs as the six member form rather than the five member form.

There is however one small sterochemical error in the Haworth projection of fructopyranose depicted in this article. The hydroxyl on carbon 3 should be in the up position rather than the down position. The molecule as depicted here would actually be the six member form of D-Psicose which would be called D-Psicopyranose. To convert from a Fischer projection to a Haworth projection anything right of center in the Fischer is shown as down in the Haworth while left of center in Fischer is shown as up in Haworth.

By: Sunitha

Sunitha — Sat, 23 Oct 2010 01:16:19 +0000

The structure you have is not exactly correct. The 5th Carbon is supposed to have a CH2OH attached to it instead of the H. Hopefully you can fix it. =)

By: Not fr*ctose

Not fr*ctose — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 19:46:35 +0000

Indeed — that molecule ain’t fructose.
Probably less toxic, too.

By: JJ

JJ — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 21:35:37 +0000

Yeah hey, fructose is actually a five sided molecular ring, albeit a hextose saccharide. see Biology, Reece, 8ed, p. 71

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