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You may be seeing 'health-oriented' products with Crystalline Fructose listed on the label.  Our advice:  stay clear of this ultra-sweet sweetener that may be worse for your health than high fructose corn syrup.  "Roger Clemens, a professor at the USC School of Pharmacy whose research has focused on functional foods, food processing and nutrition. The two ingredients are chemically distinct, Clemens says, but their nutritional ramifications vary only slightly. High fructose corn syrup and crystalline fructose are made from the same starting material: corn. In the U.S., this is an abundant and cheap source of fructose, the plant-sugar responsible for making many fruits so naturally sweet. But though high fructose corn syrup often contains about 55% fructose (the rest is glucose), crystalline fructose is the result of several extra processing steps which yield a product that is close to 100% fructose." 

Bottom Line:  Crystalline Fructose is a highly processed sweetener and may turn out to cause as many or more health problems than it's cousin, High Fructose Corn Syrup. Make sure you check your 'healthy' bottled drinks for this fake food ingredient.  

Source: 
Conis, E. 2009, February 2. Is crystalline fructose a better choice of sweetener? Los Angeles Times. Retrieved September 4, 2011, from http://articles.latimes.com/2009/feb/02/health/he-nutrition2