Does the absorption of fructose in a lot of foods, including regular cane sugar and almost all syrups, lead directly to those calories being stored in adipose tissue, i.e. fat.

Question

Does the absorption of fructose in a lot of foods, including regular cane sugar and almost all syrups, lead directly to those calories being stored in adipose tissue, i.e. fat.

In: Chemistry

Answer 1

There is no fructose in cane sugar. Cane sugar is extremely pure sucrose.

(Yes, sucrose is a disaccharide linking one glucose and one fructose. The fructose isn’t free, it’s chemically bound.)