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GLUCOSE SYRUP

Brown rice syrup

What it is

Rice cooked down with enzymes into syrup — the go-to "organic," fructose-free sweetener for health-branded bars and infant foods, sold on what it isn't (corn, fructose).

Why your biology objects

No free fructose, so it dodges the liver problem — but it's nearly pure glucose-yielding starch with a glycemic index ~98, essentially equal to pure glucose, one of the sharpest spikes on the shelf. And because rice accumulates inorganic arsenic, it has tested high in exactly the infant products that lean on it.

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