Fructose

I just tasted Fructose today, and it tastes really sweet! Why don't we use that instead of sucrose?

Well, do so if you want, but Fructose gets icky after a while.

We do. It's in most sugary drinks and snacks.

American food and drink makers stuff high Fructose corn syrup into every product they make, in the UK we don't use it at all.

Sorry. I meant to ask why is sucrose commonly used as table sugar, when fructose, and even dextrose, taste sweeter than it.

Fructose is awesome, and therefore, finds its manufactured way into American snacks by the boatload. It also appears naturally, but unless it's in fruit, it leaves a bit of a nasty aftertaste, like most sugars.

Sucrose is easier to maintain, and doesn't screw you up quite as bad (thanks, Chemistry).

We use stuff sweeter than sucrose. It's called Sweet'n'Low, Splenda, Equal, etc etc etc
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_sweetener

:eek: Splenda rocks harder than my aunt Bessy!! :hat:

I say glucose all the way

:kaoyatta:

Splenda > fructose

And i was allergic to fructose as a child too...it hated me