You've probably heard it a hundred times: swap white sugar for honey, agave, or fruit juice and you're making a healthier ...

High-fructose corn syrup, a sweetener made from corn starch, is widely found in common foods. Due to its widespread use, the consumption of fructose has increased over the past five decades. “If you ...

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.

MD Anderson studies reveal how cancer cells rewire metabolism to spread. A glucose–fructose mix promotes colorectal ...

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 ...

A groundbreaking study from Washington University in St. Louis has uncovered disturbing evidence about the relationship between dietary fructose and cancer growth, particularly in cases of melanoma, ...

The sugar known as fructose could be a kind of rocket fuel for cancer cells, and lowering fructose intake could be one way to fight the disease, new research suggests. Fructose is already ubiquitous ...

Scientists have used imaging tests to show for the first time that fructose, a sugar that saturates the American diet, can trigger brain changes that may lead to overeating. After drinking a fructose ...