Hi,
David F put a reply to the same question on his new topic "Glucose Syrup." Here's the reply he posted with more information:
I have just received a response from Queen Fine Foods P/L regarding my above query. Their representative, in a display of first class service, has informed me that Queen brand glucose syrup contains only glucose and definitely does not contain fructose. I bought the jar from Coles. It was near cake making thingys, adjacent to vanilla essence etc.
It's easy to get the two confused. I have had to read Sweet Poison several times because there's so much information in it, and it helps motivate me to keep off sugar. Basically, the U.S. found that they could extract a sugar substitute from corn- which grew better and more cheaply. They call this substitute High Fructose Corn Syrup, and they use it in everything. Australia had good sugar crops, so we use sugar in everything. Both HFCS and sugar are similiar in fructose-glucose content and have the same effect on our bodies. I have only seen HFCS in one U.S. product on Australian shelves- it was a pancake syrup and clearly labelled as HFCS so I didn;t buy it.
As you can see from David F's entry, Australian glucose syrup is glucose, so I guess they extracted just the glucose molecules from the corn. I've noticed it in my gluten free products, and it has been labelled "glucose syrup-from corn," for years, and Coeliacs like me have investigated it to be a pure, highly processed product.
Maybe that means the Amercians get both fructose and glucose out of corn. Well, we have manufactured products which have lactose extracted out, fat extracted out, yeast extracted out... they must be able to pull anything out that they want to.
