Question

Is sucrose bad for your health?

Answer 1

When you eat foods containing sucrose in moderation the sucrose is perfectly fine for your health.

But when you eat a lot of foods containing sucrose then it's not very good for your health.

Sugar including sucrose is toxic to humans in large enough amounts but you'd have to eat gobs and gobs of the sucrose or sugar before it became toxic enough for your health.

As long as you don't eat too much sugar or too much food that contains sucrose then your health should be okay.

If you have liver problems then eating too much sucrose could harm your liver as well so be careful.

As long as you're overall healthy anyway then the sucrose you eat in small amounts should not be bad for your health nor should it cause any harm.

Answer 2

Sucrose is also known as table sugar and is a disaccharide, which means that sucrose is made up of 2 simpler sugar molecules and it can also be naturally occurring as a carbohydrate that can be found in many fruits, plants and vegetables.

Sucrose is also widely used as a sweetener in foods and beverages and is also produced commercially from sugarcane and sugar beets.

Sucrose is made from beets or sugarcane which is different from High Fructose Corn Syrup.

If it's the regular sucrose then it's not made from corn and is made from the sugarcane or beets.

But for the high fructose corn syrup the high fructose corn syrup is made from corn.

Sucrose and High Fructose corn syrup are sometimes confused with each other by some people but they are different and made from different things.

But since starch itself is a simple sugar, a chain of glucose molecules joined together, once it becomes broken down into individual glucose molecules, it's then actually corn syrup, which is essentially 100% glucose.

So if you have sucrose it's made of beets or sugarcane but for high fructose corn syrup it's made from corn.