Figure 1. Sucrose, which is composed of one glucose and one fructose molecule, is rapidly metabolized to these two sugars upon ingestion. Bottom line The authors of the Nature paper clearly ...

High fructose intake is increasingly linked to fatty liver disease, as studies show sugar overload stresses the liver more than commonly blamed junk foods.

Gary Patti, the Michael and Tana Powell Professor of Chemistry in Arts & Sciences and a professor of genetics and of medicine at the School of Medicine, all at WashU. Fructose consumption has ...

Fructose has steadily been on the rise in Western diets as high-fructose corn syrup, an inexpensive sweetnener, has become popular. A downside of this fructose boom is that fructose is known to fuel ...