For Your Health & Wellness
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Christine Foutch - Holistic Physician
Fructose is a hexose-sugar… Hexose referring to the number of the Carbon Atoms within the sugar- molecule itself; so the simple sugar that it is.
Naturally present with glucose, coming to form Sucrose; the Disaccharide you can find within the fruits, honey, and the vegetables.
Humans and most mammals have apparently developed the ability to use fructose as a metabolic substrate, at some point as we all evolved; as the presence of the specific Metabolic Enzymes are showing. Likely, however, this was an advantage and then influenced our survival rates.
Fructose consumption has been relatively low until the middle ages; as this was due to the fact that consumption of the foods containing Fructose was generally quite limited. Seasonal and then of course wild, so there was often some difficulty in the gathering of these foods in the larger quantities.
Sugar was available in Asia; where the sugar cane was able to grow. Provided to the Middle Eastern countries through the ability to trade with the Asian countries.
Europe… The consumption here of sugar started only after the crusades. When crusaders became familiarized with this sweet product.
Sugar the scarce, expensive luxury, that it was, was therefore only able to be used in much smaller quantities and was generally considered as a spice.
As the availability of sugar increased, its consumption was heightened by the entrance of some newer beverages that we have grown to know very well; such as tea, coffee, we can even add in hot chocolate.
Within the twentieth century, its consumption increased further; technological developments brought in the production of our sodas, ice creams, the chocolate candy bars.
Unfortunately, since then, there has been a continuous sugar consumption increase; going from a daily consumption of about 15–30g near to the start of the twentieth century, ranging to the current amount that is figured in at about 140–150g per person every day, this includes Europe, North and South America… Spanning the eastern and western hemispheres.
The estimations in the United States alone are set to show that sugar represents, on average of about 20% of total daily energy intake; no doubt here about the fact that presently… We have the highest sugar consumption in our human history.
Originally, the major source of sugar was Sugar-Cane, which, during the colonial area, was largely cultivated in South America, the West Indies, and Asia.
Since the eighteenth and twentieth centuries…
The sugar beets have been grown in Europe and North America, individually securing natural sources of sugar. Both the sugar cane and the sugar beets are natural producers of Sucrose; which again is the disaccharide composed of one molecule of glucose linked to one molecule of fructose.
Even as late as the 1970s these were the main dietary sources of Fructose… the Sugarcane and the beet sugar.
Though starting back in the 1950s the early developmental work had already begun to be carried out; with the very first shipments of the product, High Fructose Corn Syrup was out and shipped to the food industry in the late 1960s.
With the amazing growth that it has had within the following years; happen to make High fructose corn syrup the most successful ingredient in Human History.
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