Results: For SSBs, the three independent laboratory methods showed consistent and reproducible
results. In SSBs made with HFCS, fructose constituted 60.6% 2.7% of sugar content. In juices
sweetened with HFCS, fructose accounted for 52.1% 5.9% of sugar content, although in some
juices made from 100% fruit, fructose concentration reached 65.35 g/L accounting for 67% of sugars.
Conclusion: Our results provide evidence of higher than expected amounts of free fructose in some
beverages. Popular beverages made with HFCS have a fructose-to-glucose ratio of approximately
60:40, and thus contain 50% more fructose than glucose. Some pure fruit juices have twice as much
fructose as glucose. These findings suggest that beverages made with HFCS and some juices have a
sugar profile very different than sucrose, in which amounts of fructose and glucose are equivalent.
Current dietary analyses may underestimate actual fructose consumption