Introduction
The high chronic consumption of fructose is associated
with health concerns. An increase in obesity in
the population over the past 35 years has coincided
with an increase in the consumption of sugars (22%
increase) and fats (48%) by the population. Fructose
intake has also increased partly as a result of highfructose
corn syrup (HFCS)-55 ingestion, and unlike
glucose ingestion, sucrose or fructose enriched diets
have caused a sustained elevation of plasma triglycerides
in the human population, which suggested
that chronic over-consumption of fructose could
contribute to atherogenesis and cardiovascular disease
(Stanhope et al., 2008). Sucrose- and fructoseenriched
diets also caused hepatic insulin resistance