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# Fructose may be unhealthy
- URL: https://www.foodconsumer.org/fructose_may_be_unhealthy_061220090520/
- Published: 2009-12-06T17:20:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-15T12:35:48.000Z
- Description: G.A. Bray concludes in Current Opinion in Lipidology that fructose is hazardous to cardiometabolic health. His analysis found people in the top quantile of soft drink consumption were 24% more likely to have cardiometabolic disease than those in the bottom.
- Author: Food Consumer
- Tags: Chemical, Food Safety, Fructose, #vivvo-import

By Jimmy Downs

G.A. Bray of Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana published an article in the Dec 2 2009 issue of Current Opinion in Lipidology suggests "fructose is hazardous to the cardiometabolic health of many children adolescents and adults."

An increase in consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages has been observed in parallel with an increase in the risk of overweight, diabetes and cardiometabolic disease.

Bray meta-analyzed data from previous studies and found that people whose consumption of soft drinks was in the top quantile were 24 percent more likely to suffer cardiometabolic disease compared to those whose consumption was in the bottom quantile.

Soft drinks commonly use high fructose corn syrup, which contains nearly 50 percent of fructose just as sugar does, The association does not mean that it is fructose that increases the risk of cardiometabolic disease. But it could be because of the increased carbohydrate load.

But it has been clear that fructose increases acutely thermogenesis, triglycerides and lipogenesis as well as blood pressure while it has a smaller effect on leptin and insulin release than glucose.

Bray concluded that based on the data collected by the author, fructose is hazardous to the cardiometabolic health.