Soda and Chemistry

Sucrose – table sugar

Sucrose, glucose and fructose are important carbohydrates, commonly referred to as simple sugars. Sugar is found naturally in whole foods and is often added to processed foods to sweeten them and increase flavor. Your tongue can't quite distinguish between these sugars, but your body can tell the difference. They all provide the same amount of energy per gram, but are processed and used differently throughout the body.

Fructose – corn syrup

Fructose is a sugar found naturally in many fruits and vegetables, and added to various beverages such as soda and fruit-flavored drinks. However, it is very different from other sugars because it has a different metabolic pathway and is not the preferred energy source for muscles or the brain. Fructose is only metabolized in the liver and relies on fructokinase to initiate metabolism. It is also more lipogenic, or fat-producing, than glucose. Unlike glucose, too, it does not cause insulin to be released or stimulate production of leptin, a key hormone for regulating energy intake and expenditure. These factors raise concerns about chronically high intakes of dietary fructose, because it appears to behave more like fat in the body than like other carbohydrates.

Sucrose vs fructose

Sucralose - splenda

• Sucralose was discovered by scientists at Tate & Lyle in 1976 during taste-testing of a chlorinated sugar compound. One report is that researcher Shashikant Phadnis thought his coworker Leslie Hough asked him to taste the compound (not a usual procedure), so he did and found the compound to be extraordinarily sweet compared with sugar. The compound was patented and tested, first approved for use as a non-nutritive sweetener in Canada in 1991. 

WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN SUCROSE AND SUCRALOSE?

http://chemistry.about.com/od/foodcookingchemistry/a/What-Is-The-Difference-Between-Sucrose-And-Sucralose.htm

How it’s made: coke a cola https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNYJG3WFPak

• chemical structures of the two sweeteners are related, but not identical.

• Unlike sucrose, sucralose is not metabolized by the body. Sucralose contributes zero calories to the diet, compared with sucrose, which contributes 16 calories per teaspoon (4.2 grams).

• Sucralose is about 600 times sweeter than sucrose.

Sucrose – table sugar

  C 12 H 22 O 11

Sucralose – splenda

C 12 H 19 Cl 3 O 8