Sweeteners often marketed as natural alternatives may be putting unexpected stress on your liver, according to emerging research on fructose metabolism.

Excessive fructose intake, especially from sugary drinks and processed foods—may increase the risk of fatty liver disease, ...

When it comes to processing fructose, the liver is a pinch hitter for the small intestine. To use fructose for energy, the body needs to convert it into another type of simple sugar called glucose or ...

They break down cornstarch into corn syrup, which is almost entirely glucose. Then they add enzymes that convert some glucose into fructose, creating high-fructose corn syrup. Processed food and drink ...

Princeton University researchers report that in mice, fructose, a sugar found in fruit, is processed mainly in the small intestine, not in the liver as had previously been suspected. Sugary drinks and ...

The liver breaks down dietary fructose into lipids that are used by cancer cells to boost their growth in mice. As the small intestine and liver metabolize most of the dietary fructose, the team ...

Fructose malabsorption, formerly called dietary fructose intolerance, occurs when cells on the surface of the intestines aren’t able to break down fructose efficiently. Fructose is a simple sugar, ...

Along with glucose, fructose is one of the two primary components of added sugar. Some health experts believe fructose is the worse of the two, at least when consumed in excess. Fructose is a type of ...

FOR much of 2009, Michael Locascio, an executive at ConAgra Foods, watched with concern as the bad news about high-fructose corn syrup kept coming. In January, there were studies showing that samples ...