Why do companies put sugar in apple sauce?

[Perfection]

There you go again... tell me why I'm an idiot.

Traumatic brain injury?

[KrazyHorse]

Perfection

[KrazyHorse]

I am familiar with the other HFCS 42, in either case, I would think what really counts is what the fructose is actually doing and how the body is responding to that.

Nice meeting you gribbler, and I wish you well, and the best.

And by the time it is absorbed by "the body" sucrose is in monosaccharide form (i.e. split into component glucose and fructose)

So anything corn syrup does to you, sucrose does to you as well.

[Aeson]

Just an honest question (which I don't care enough about to go look for the answer)... when glucose and fructose is split, does that result in any other chemical difference in other compounds? Basically, if something is responsible for or affected by the split occurring, does it change in that process?

[KrazyHorse]

There's an extra hydroxide ion in the solution IIRC, but that should be neutralized immediately by the acid in your stomach.

This process is catalyzed by some proteins (?), but they are not used up.

[Aeson]

HFCS iz IONIZINE YOUR stomach with OXYCLEAN?!?!

j/k... thanks for the answer

[Egbert]

I think the more import question is this: Why do companies put apples in apple sauce?

Good question. Very important.

[The Mad Monk]

The thing that gets me is that back in the 80s / 90s, fructose was being hailed as being superior to sucrose, since it was the sugar our bodies were "intended" to make use of (in a fruit and vegetable heavy diet). It was supposed to be less of a shock to blood sugar levels, since glucose had to be synthesized from it and not simply split off and instantly available, as is the case with sucrose.

All of which actually makes sense. So what happened?

[Aeson]

Americans (and rats) got fat, that's what happened

[The Mad Monk]

...but that's not they're saying in the media. They're saying that fructose is unhealthy, compared to sucrose.

[Aeson]

Scare mongering in the media? Sensationalism? Playing to the latest rumor? I find it hard to believe...