HFCS is not metabolized by your body the same way naturally occurring food sugars are. It takes just one day for your body to fully digest the sugars that are found in fresh fruit and vegetables, but it can take up to four days to digest high-fructose corn syrup. Whenever you eat anything with sugar in it, enzymes in your digestive tract must break down sucrose into a 50/50 ratio of glucose and fructose, which are then absorbed into the body. HFCS contains glucose and fructose in a 45/55 glucose to fructose ratio in an unbound form. Since there is no chemical bond between the glucose and
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