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How Does Fructose Corn Syrup Work?
Fructose is usually in a ring form called beta D fructose but when dissolved as Fructose is inside like the juice of a fruit or in honey it becomes a bunch of different isomers some of which are laid out in lines rather than rings. When you chemically alter your syrup to have extra fructose you get more sweetness out of less stuff therefore it's cheaper and Theoretically at least its fewer calories per unit of sweetness experience or whatever they call that Fructice is also more water soluble than glucose, which is one reason they generally use high fructose corn syrup in drinks rather than in candies. You know what else has a softening effect? Whatever the heck they put into me undies