"We agree that the consumption of fructose over the last century has come from sources of food high in added sugar -- be it high fructose corn syrup or table sugar (sucrose)," she replied. "So, in our study we evaluated the intake of fructose from sources high in added sugar such as soft drinks, juices, bakery products such as cakes, doughnuts, and cookies, etc, in addition to chocolate, dairy desserts, candy, dried fruits, and honey, jam, sugar added to coffee or tea, and syrup. So, you can see that we did include sucrose."

Whether we get our fructose from high fructose corn syrup or from table sugar doesn't matter. Any form of added fructose spells trouble. Even through Dr. Jalal and her team's research is preliminary, it gives us one more reason to avoid fructose.