Research
Hormonal
High doses of fructose (unrealistic for human nutrition) can induce lipogenesis and metabolic syndrome in rodents, but these effects do not extrapolate to moderate human consumption.
Do not rely on high-dose animal studies to judge the safety of your diet. Those studies use doses of fructose that are impossible to consume in a normal human diet. At normal consumption levels, your body handles fructose differently than the stressed animal models.
GoodQualifiesHIGH confidence
Negative conclusions have been drawn from studies in rodents or in humans attempting to elucidate the mechanisms and biological pathways underlying fructose consumption by using unrealistically high fructose amounts.
Why this rating
Supported by multiple animal studies cited, but the author explicitly dismisses their relevance to human nutrition due to dose.
Source
Health implications of fructose consumption: A review of recent data
Salwa W. Rizkalla · Nutrition & Metabolism · 2010
DOI 10.1186/1743-7075-7-82
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