Is sugar/glucose-fructose the same as HFCS?

I've noticed that HFCS isn't as common as it is in here (Canada) compared to the States, but sugar/glucose-fructose appears pretty high up in the list of ingredients for products in Canada. For example, the second ingredient (which usually is HFCS in the US) is sugar/glucose-fructose. Do they call HFCS sugar/glucose-fructose in Canada because of the labelling laws?

i dont think so. glucose and fructose are types of simple sugars.  HFCS is corn syrup with added processed stuff. 

Ok HFCS is corn syrup that is converted from 100% glucose to a fructose/glucose mix.  It comes in three varieties HFCS 90 (baking), HFCS 55 (soft drinks) and HFCS 45 (sports drinks) with the number being the percent of fructose.

It's the high levels of fructose that you body converts into triglycerides when your intake levels are higher then your body's needs (glucose is also turned to fat via insulin).

Now sugar (table sugar/sucrose) is 50% glucose/50% fructose, honey's ratio of glucose/fructose is 45% glucose/55% fructose (same as HFCS 55).

But here is where we get to the problem of sugar, that it's a problem when you eat to much of it.  It really doesn't matter which kind of either (though honey does has some anti-oxidant properties it will still raise triglycerides) in the end added sugar is added sugar.

this is what worries me. from the website:

"(Glucose/fructose is a generic term for high fructose corn syrup or HFCS.)"

http://72.14.205.104/search?q=cache:DQD0ZFf8YFMJ:www4.agr.gc.ca/A AFC-AAC/display-afficher.do%3Fid%3D1172167862 291%26lang%3De+canadian+soda+HFCS+glucose-fru ctose&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=3&gl=c a

I'm doing a research essay on this subject and I was reading wikapedia's def. about HFCS. Canada calls it glucose/ fructose while Europe calls it isoglucose. Stay away from it alll!!!!

Yes, in Canada HFCS is referred to as glucose/fructose.  Follow this government link, http://www4.agr.gc.ca/AAFC-AAC/display-affich er.do?id=1172167862291&lang=eng &nbs p; scroll down to the section labelled 'structure' and read the 4th paragraph.

Hi, patty010  -  don't know what happened to your link but it did not work for me.  However, found the intended paragraph at  http://www4.agr.gc.ca/AAFC-AAC/display-affich er.do?id=1172167862291⟨=eng ; .  (PS comparing our posts, looks like the website posting code may have added some counter-functional junk to the link.)

For me the key assertion is "...(Glucose/fructose is a generic term for high fructose corn syrup or HFCS). The [soft drink] industry uses about 20 times as much HFCS as it does sugar as the sweetening agent."

The shocker is that a common can of pop contains (if they tell you) 38 to 45 gm of carbs ie 13 to 15 sugar cubes as part of a 355ml drink - makes me ill just thinking of it!

In the States, corn is a subsidized crop so corn-derived products are in EVERYTHING. Read The Omnivore's Dilemma & be surprised.