Jelly- Polaner. Great tasting, and all natural. I got some at walmart. Also smuckers makes some great tasting natural peanut butter. just peanuts and a little salt but it tastes the same.
HFCS in a nutshell:
Sugar and HFCS are nutritionally the same. But! not chemically the same.
When your body processes suger, it turns into ATP which is quick access energy for your cells to use. HFCS isn't natural, but made of chemicals so your body dosn't know how to process it. So instead of getting energy, your body processes the HFCS directly into fat.
Another downside, Your body dosen't direclty recognize HFCS as a food so when you eat products with HFCS, your still hungry. Thats why you can drink half a gallon of soda in one sitting.
That's nonsense. I striked the statements that are absolutely wrong.
Typos aside, those are very misguided notions that might lead you to make irrational choices.
HFCS is simply sugar extracted from food, chemically it's exactly the same molecule, and I mean exactly (specifically it's 2 molecules, fructose and glucose). Your body can't possibly tell the difference between it and an imaginary 'unnatural' sugar molecule, nor can anything else in the universe.
If it was synthesized through simple inorganic chemistry however, you could get isomer forms, which are technically different molecules (like left-handed vs right-handed gloves), and you would have to separate them later as some of them are not really used by biological organisms. But again all this doesn't apply here since sugar is extracted and not made through impractical and more costly synthesis.
Sugars are not just processed directly into ATP or fat, they can be used in a variety of different energy pathways, converted into glycogen, etc. That's not dependent on the source of the molecule but rather by the needs and state of your body (total blood sugar level, insulin, cellular ATP levels, glycogen stores etc). There is no magic molecule that when ingested is sure to be converted into fat, nor is there any magic source of sugar that will only be used for ATP or glycogenesis.
Edit: Also digestion and feeling full are again dependent on other mechanisms, especially digestion speed and the presence of fat and protein in your digestive system.
If you can drink half a gallon of soda in one sitting I suppose that's impressive, but it has nothing to do with HFCS, if you can do it with soda you will be able to do it with sugar-free soda or even water too.
Sugar and water are both absorbed quickly in your stomach and don't require much in terms of digestion so there is no reason for your body to make you feel full.
If you want to feel full for a long time you should be eating solid food that contains proteins and fat, not sugar and water.
