““Fructose Fructose is the worst type of sugar, although the food industry would love for you to believe that all sugars are metabolically equal. Science tells us, unquestionably, that they are actually metabolized differently. Fructose in fruit is not harmful unless you consume it in excess, but high fructose corn syrup is another thing altogether, dealing a death blow to your liver. HFCS is in the vast majority of sodas, juice drinks, junk food, and all manner of processed foods, from soup to nuts. Literally! Unlike glucose—which is a form of sugar that every cell in your body can use, including your brain—fructose has to be metabolized almost exclusively by your liver, very much like alcohol and other toxic substances.””
![“[S]ometimes, when you are a food person, the possible irrelevance of what you are doing doesn’t cross your mind until it’s too late. (Once, for example, when I was just starting out in the food business, I was hired by the caper people to develop a lot of recipes using capers, and it was weeks of…” quote by Nora Ephron](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/d79/nora-ephron-1217_business_s-ometimes-when-you-are-a-food-person-th_980.jpg)
