Fructose

[Auragaea]

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

[aquatius]

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

[fire_of_avalon]

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

[aquatius]

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.

[Auragaea]

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

[Tavrobel]

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).

[rubah]

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

[The Rapping Raptor]

Splenda rocks harder than my aunt Bessy!!

[yumi]

I say glucose all the way

:kaoyatta:

[VengefulRonin]

Splenda > fructose

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