Fructose metabolism and metabolic disease

Increased sugar consumption is increasingly considered to be a contributor to the worldwide epidemics of obesity and diabetes and their associated cardiometabolic risks. As a result of its unique metabolic properties, the fructose component of sugar may be particularly harmful. Diets high in fructose can rapidly produce all of the key features of the metabolic syndrome. Here we review the biology of fructose metabolism as well as potential mechanisms by which excessive fructose consumption may contribute to cardiometabolic disease.

Ingested fructose is predominantly absorbed passively from the intestinal lumen via the hexose transporter SLC2A5, also known as GLUT5, which has high affinity for fructose (K_m = 6 mM). GLUT5 is highly expressed on enterocytes’ luminal membrane and is also expressed basolaterally (28). Deletion of Glut5 in mice reduces fructose absorption by 75% and causes cecum and colon dilatation as well as gas accumulation (29). These features are suggestive of fructose malabsorption, frequently cited as a cause of gastrointestinal symptoms in humans (30, 31). The intestine’s capacity to absorb fructose is saturable (32), and a healthy adult’s ability to absorb free fructose ranges from less than 5 g to more than 50 g (33). Unabsorbed fructose can impose an osmotic load on the distal small intestine and the colon, which may contribute to gastrointestinal symptoms (32). Moreover, fructose can serve as a substrate for bacterial fermentation, leading to formation of gas and other bacterial metabolites, which can affect intestinal motility and cause various symptoms such as abdominal pain and bloating (34).

Intestinal GLUT5 mRNA levels and fructose transport rates are very low prenatally and rapidly increase with weaning independently of diet, but they can be further induced following weaning to diets containing fructose (35). Recent data showed that high-fructose feeding induces intestinal thioredoxin-interacting protein (TXNIP), which binds and regulates GLUT5-mediated intestinal fructose transport (36). Consistent with this, we recently showed that carbohydrate-responsive element–binding protein (ChREBP), a transcription factor that responds to intracellular carbohydrate nutrients and a known transcriptional regulator of TXNIP (37), also regulates intestinal GLUT5 expression and is required for systemic fructose tolerance (38). In the future, it will be interesting to determine whether variability in the expression or function of GLUT5 or its regulatory factors contributes to the variability in fructose absorption in humans.

Fructose concentrations in peripheral plasma are typically about 0.04 mM, can acutely increase 10-fold after fructose consumption, and return to fasting levels within 2 hours (39–41). This rapid clearance is mediated in large part by efficient extraction by the liver. Whereas the liver extracts only 15% to 30% of an oral glucose load, it is capable of extracting 70% of an oral fructose load (42, 43). Following fructose ingestion, plasma fructose can achieve low millimolar concentrations in the portal vein accompanied by peripheral circulation levels of approximately 0.2 mM, indicating that peripheral fructose concentrations rarely exceed the high micromolar range (44).

The SLC2A2 glucose transporter, also known as GLUT2, has lower affinity for fructose (K_m = 11 mM) than GLUT5 (45). GLUT2 is a minor contributor to intestinal fructose transport (45), whereas it is likely a major contributor to hepatic fructose uptake, since GLUT5 is not robustly expressed in the liver (46, 47). SLC2A8, also known as GLUT8, may also contribute to hepatocellular fructose transport (48). Fructose is a poor substrate for the hepatic hexokinase glucokinase (GCK). Instead, ketohexokinase (KHK, also known as fructokinase) rapidly phosphorylates fructose to generate fructose-1-phosphate (F1P). KHK’s high activity and insensitivity to cellular energy status account for the liver’s ability to efficiently extract fructose. F1P is metabolized to dihydroxyacetone phosphate (DHAP) and glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate (G3P), which enter the glycolytic/gluconeogenic metabolite pools (Figure 1).

Figure 1

Fructose biochemistry. Upon entering hepatocytes, fructose is phosphorylated by KHK to F1P. F1P is cleaved to DHAP and glyceraldehyde by ALDOB. Glyceraldehyde is phosphorylated by triose-kinase (TKFC, also known as dihydroxyacetone kinase 2 or DAK) to form the glycolytic intermediate glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate (GA3P). Both fructose-derived DHAP and GA3P enter the glycolytic/gluconeogenic metabolite pool at the triose-phosphate level, and these metabolites have numerous metabolic fates. F1P also allosterically regulates metabolic enzymes (red and green lines) to regulate the disposition of fructose-derived substrate and other metabolic products like uric acid. AMPD3, adenosine deaminase; GA, glyceraldehyde; IMP, inosine monophosphate; MTTP, microsomal triglyceride transfer protein; PYGL, glycogen phosphorylase L; GYS2, glycogen synthase 2; PKLR, pyruvate kinase, liver and red blood cell; PEP, phosphoenolpyruvate; TAG, triacylglycerol.

Cellular metabolic status and energy status tightly regulate the phosphofructokinase (PFK) step in glycolysis, which limits hepatic glycolytic flux (49). In contrast, fructose-derived metabolites enter the triose-phosphate pool distal to PFK and therefore bypass this restriction. As hepatic fructolysis is unrestricted, fructose loads can lead to large, rapid expansions in the hexose- and triose-phosphate pools, potentially providing increased substrate for all central carbon metabolic pathways, including glycolysis, glycogenesis, gluconeogenesis, lipogenesis, and oxidative phosphorylation.

The disposition of fructose-derived carbon among the major metabolic pathways depends on the overall nutritional and endocrine status of the animal as well as the status of key regulatory checkpoints in intermediary metabolism. For instance, in starved animals, low levels of fructose-2,6-biphosphate inhibit PFK activity and glycolysis and activate fructose-1,6-biphosphatase and glucose production (50). Thus, in a starved animal, fructose-derived triose-phosphates are preferentially routed through the gluconeogenic path (51, 52). The fate of ingested fructose may also depend on coingested nutrients. For instance, infusing physiological concentrations of fructose to fed rats and humans increases serum glucose and lactate levels without affecting hepatic glycogen accumulation (53, 54). However, when fructose is infused with glucose, which stimulates insulin secretion, marked glycogen accumulation occurs (55). Chronic fructose consumption can affect metabolic gene expression programs that further affect fructose disposition. These mechanisms will be described in greater detail below.

Although the liver metabolizes the majority of ingested fructose, the intestine itself can metabolize up to 30% of an oral fructose load (56, 57). All of the fructolytic enzymes are highly expressed in the small intestine and notably in the jejunum, where the highest levels of GLUT5 are observed (58). Similarly to GLUT5, intestinal expression of fructolytic and gluconeogenic enzymes including glucose-6-phosphatase (G6PC) increases upon fructose feeding (59) and depends on GLUT5 and KHK activity (60). However, most prandial fructose is not metabolized in the intestine but rather passes via the portal vein to the liver (61, 62).

In addition to providing substrate for metabolic processes, hepatic fructose metabolism generates specific metabolites that also perform signaling functions (Figure 2). Importantly, F1P, the fructose-specific metabolite produced by KHK, exerts strong positive regulatory control on GCK by promoting its release from the inhibitory GCK regulatory protein (GCKR). GCKR sequesters GCK in an inactive state in the nucleus (63–65). “Catalytic” amounts of fructose, in part through activation of GCK, can promote hepatic glucose uptake and phosphorylation, leading to rapid glycogen accumulation (66). F1P may also enhance glycogen synthesis by allosterically inhibiting glycogen phosphorylase (67, 68). Lastly, F1P also allosterically activates pyruvate kinase, the terminal step in glycolysis, contributing to increased circulating lactate levels following fructose ingestion (69). In rodent liver, hepatic F1P levels increase 10-fold to approximately 1 mM within 10 minutes after fructose ingestion and remain elevated for several hours (70). F1P concentrations of only approximately 200 μM are sufficient to alleviate the inhibitory effect of GCKR on GCK (71). Thus, fructose ingestion is likely to have rapid, robust, and sustained effects on hepatic glucose uptake and intermediary metabolism.

Figure 2

Fructose-induced gene expression programs. Fructose metabolism activates transcription factors including ChREBP and SREBP1c and their coactivator PGC1β to coordinately regulate gene expression of metabolic enzymes that contribute to fructolysis, glycolysis, lipogenesis, and glucose production. These metabolic pathways contribute to steatosis, VLDL packaging and secretion, as well as glucose production and the generation of lipid intermediates that may affect hepatic insulin sensitivity and other biological processes. ACACA, acetyl-CoA carboxylase α; FASN, fatty acid synthase; GPAT, glycerol-3-phosphate acyltransferases; AGPAT, acylglycerol-3-phosphate acyltransferase; DGAT, diacylglycerol acyltransferase; DAG, diacylglycerol.

While the efficiency and rapidity with which the liver can extract and phosphorylate ingested fructose are likely important for its role in integrating nutritional and systemic fuel metabolism, this robust metabolism may also have deleterious consequences. For instance, decreases in intracellular free phosphate due to rapid hepatic fructose phosphorylation can increase uric acid production through activation of AMP deaminase, which leads to catabolism of AMP to uric acid (72, 73). Fructose feeding may also stimulate purine synthesis, contributing to uric acid production (74). Increased circulating uric acid levels increase the risk of gout, a condition characterized by painful inflammation due to deposition of uric acid crystals in joints. Indeed, a growing body of evidence implicates sugar intake as a risk factor for gout (75). Moreover, elevated serum uric acid levels and gout are associated with other cardiometabolic risk factors in diverse populations (76–78). A substantial body of work suggests that increased uric acid levels may independently regulate important aspects of metabolism and contribute to cardiometabolic risk (79–83). However, Mendelian randomization studies do not strongly support a causal role for circulating uric acid in mediating cardiometabolic disease (84). The association between uric acid levels and cardiometabolic risk may be indirect and may reflect activation of distinct fructose-regulated processes that contribute both to uric acid production and cardiometabolic risk.

The liver is at a metabolic crossroads and is crucial for gauging nutrient consumption and integrating peripheral nutrient status to regulate systemic fuel storage versus provisioning. While hormones like insulin and glucagon help inform the liver of systemic fuel status, the liver is also well configured to integrate signals derived directly from fuel substrates. In this sense, the signaling properties of fructose-derived F1P, and particularly its regulation of GCK activity, may function as an evolved mechanism allowing the liver to use fructose metabolism to “sense” sugar (i.e., sucrose or high-fructose corn syrup) consumption. Robust physiological activation of hepatic GCK occurs only when fructose-containing sugars are consumed. This activation enhances net hepatic glucose uptake and storage as glycogen and lipid. Interestingly, at supraphysiological/pathological levels, glucose itself can dissociate GCK from GCKR and may contribute to the increased hepatic GCK activity described in obese diabetics and in genetic models of obesity and diabetes (85, 86). Thus, in the setting of uncontrolled diabetes, the liver may aberrantly sense hyperglycemia as a state of increased sugar consumption. Understanding the metabolic effects of hepatic “sugar sensing” may be of consequence for understanding the pathophysiology of diabetes and hyperglycemia.

KHK exists as two alternatively spliced isoforms produced by mutual exclusion of the adjacent exons 3C and 3A within the KHK gene (87, 88). The “A” isoform is ubiquitously expressed but has low activity due to relatively low affinity for its substrate (K_m = 8 mM) (89). Expression of the “C” isoform is primarily restricted to metabolic tissues including the liver, kidney, and intestine, and this isoform has much higher affinity for fructose (K_m = 0.8 mM) (89, 90). Mice deficient in both isoforms were fully protected from fructose-induced metabolic disease even though blood and urinary fructose levels were markedly increased (91). Thus, elevated blood fructose itself is not deleterious; rather, fructose metabolism is essential for fructose-induced metabolic disease. Loss-of-function mutations in KHK cause the benign human disorder essential fructosuria, characterized by impaired hepatic fructose metabolism leading to high blood and urine fructose levels after sucrose or fructose consumption (92). Consistent with observations in mice, there are no documented adverse health effects observed in people with this condition. Altogether, these results suggest that inhibiting KHK may be a safe therapeutic strategy to prevent fructose-induced metabolic disease.

In contrast with global KHK deletion, selective deletion of the A isoform exacerbates the adverse metabolic effects of fructose feeding (91). These results suggest two important hypotheses: (a) fructose metabolism outside of tissues that express the C isoform is non-negligible and contributes to whole-body fructose clearance, and (b) fructose metabolism within the tissues expressing KHK-C is critical for fructose-induced metabolic disease. This is supported by recent data showing that selective knockdown of KHK in mouse liver protects against fructose-induced steatosis (93). Recent data also indicate that altered splicing between KHK-A and KHK-C isoforms may contribute to the development of distinct diseases like hepatocellular carcinoma and heart failure (94, 95).

Hereditary fructose intolerance (HFI) is a rare autosomal recessive disease caused by a deficiency of aldolase B (ALDOB), which is highly expressed in the liver, kidney, and small intestine (96). People with HFI develop abdominal pain, vomiting, diarrhea, symptomatic hypoglycemia, hyperuricemia, and potentially liver failure and death following ingestion of foods containing fructose, sucrose, or sorbitol (97). The precise mechanisms by which ALDOB deficiency causes symptoms are not entirely clear. An Aldob-deficient mouse model mimics the human HFI condition (98). These mice fail to thrive and die when exposed to high-fructose diets. Interestingly, even on a fructose-free diet, Aldob-deficient mice develop steatosis (98), possibly due to impaired metabolism of endogenously synthesized fructose (99).

While the vast majority of metabolized fructose is derived from dietary sources of sugar, animals including humans are capable of synthesizing fructose endogenously. The sorbitol (polyol) pathway, which is active in a wide range of tissues, is responsible for endogenous fructose formation from glucose (100, 101). In this pathway, glucose is first reduced to sorbitol by aldose reductase (102). Sorbitol is then oxidized to fructose by sorbitol dehydrogenase (103). Physiologically, endogenously synthesized fructose is the primary energy source for sperm and may be important for fertility (104–106). The placenta may also synthesize sorbitol that the developing fetus may use to synthesize fructose, suggesting a broader role for endogenous fructose in reproductive and developmental biology (107).

Sorbitol pathway activity increases during diabetic hyperglycemia (108). Endogenous fructose synthesis and polyol metabolites are considered key players in the development of diabetic microvascular complications (109). Interestingly, semen fructose concentrations are increased in type 1 diabetes and in obesity, in which it is associated with impaired sperm parameters (105, 110). Whether endogenous fructose synthesis might occur at sufficient rates to contribute to other aspects of fructose-induced cardiometabolic risk has only recently been addressed. Glucose dose-dependently induces aldolase reductase in human tissues, and chronic exposure to a high-glucose diet induces polyol pathway activation in mice (99, 111). This may be a mechanism by which severe hyperglycemia may exacerbate cardiometabolic risks. Additionally, Lanaspa et al. report that endogenous fructose production and KHK activation within the kidney contribute to the development of diabetic nephropathy (112). Although sorbitol dehydrogenase is expressed at high levels in human liver (113), whether this pathway is sufficiently active in humans to play an adverse metabolic role will require further investigation.

As noted above, excessive fructose consumption may have significant effects on lipid metabolism, contributing both to steatosis and to increased circulating triglyceride levels in the form of very low-density lipoprotein (VLDL). Hepatic lipid accumulation results from a combination of increased hepatic de novo lipogenesis (DNL), esterification of preformed fatty acids derived from the diet or adipose stores, decreased VLDL secretion, and decreased hepatic fatty acid oxidation. Activation of the lipogenic program is observed immediately after a single load of fructose and contributes to increased VLDL triglyceride secretion (114, 115). Fructose also acutely suppresses hepatic fatty acid oxidation (116). Thus, fructose contributes to hepatic triglyceride production both by providing substrate for fatty acid and triglyceride synthesis and by activating signaling systems to enhance lipid production (Figure 2).

The liver is the primary site of DNL, the process by which fatty acids are synthesized from dietary precursors, predominantly carbohydrates (117). Due to the differences in hepatic glucose and fructose metabolism, a larger fraction of diet-derived fructose than glucose metabolites are available for conversion to fat in the liver via DNL in animals and humans (20, 118–120). Additionally, fructose metabolites entering the triose-phosphate pool are in equilibrium with glycerol 3-phosphate, which is used to synthesize the glycerol backbone in triglyceride. Moreover, the metabolite malonyl-CoA generated via DNL limits fatty acid oxidation by inhibiting carnitine palmitoyltransferase 1A (CPT1A), the enzyme required for translocation of fatty acids into the mitochondria (121). CPT1A inhibition further increases the availability of fatty acids for triglyceride production. Triglyceride can be incorporated into lipid droplets, leading to steatosis, or can be incorporated into VLDL and secreted from the liver.

In addition to providing substrate for lipogenesis, chronic fructose consumption increases transcriptional regulation of DNL by activating key transcription factors, including sterol regulatory element–binding protein 1c (SREBP1c) and carbohydrate-responsive element–binding protein (ChREBP) (122). SREBP1c promotes lipid synthesis and is regulated at the transcriptional and posttranslational levels by nutrients and hormones. Insulin is a major hormonal activator of hepatic SREBP1c (123, 124). Although acute fructose feeding does not directly stimulate insulin secretion, chronic fructose ingestion can lead to hyperinsulinemia, which may increase hepatic SREBP1c expression and activation (125, 126). Fructose may also activate SREBP1c independently of insulin, since SREBP1c responds to high-fructose feeding in liver-specific insulin receptor–knockout (LIRKO) mice (125). Fructose consumption may also promote ER stress, which may induce proteolytic cleavage of SREBP1c and the lipogenic program (127, 128). Fructose-induced ER stress may also enhance lipogenesis via activation of the transcription factor x box-binding protein 1 independently of other lipogenic transcription factors (129).

ChREBP couples carbohydrate metabolites to lipid synthesis by inducing enzymes required for DNL (130). ChREBP may also suppress fatty acid oxidation by downregulating enzymes like CPT1A, in part by antagonizing peroxisome proliferator–activated receptor α (PPARα), a key transcriptional regulator of the fatty acid oxidation gene program (131, 132). ChREBP is highly expressed in key metabolic tissues, including liver, adipose tissue, small intestine, pancreatic islets, and kidney, where it regulates carbohydrate metabolism in an insulin-independent manner (37, 125, 130). The observation that ChREBP-deficient mice are intolerant to diets containing fructose but not to diets containing dextrose suggests a specific role for ChREBP in regulating fructose metabolism (37, 133). Moreover, ChREBP activity was markedly higher in rats fed high-fructose compared with isocaloric high-glucose diets (126). We recently demonstrated that ingesting fructose, but not glucose, acutely and robustly induces hepatic expression of the potent ChREBP-β isoform along with its lipogenic, fructolytic, and glycolytic targets (133, 134). The mechanism by which sugar metabolites activate ChREBP remains controversial but involves allosteric activation by glucose-6-phosphate as well as modulation by other carbohydrate metabolites and posttranslational modifications (135–137). ChREBP knockdown using antisense oligonucleotides (ASOs) in fructose-fed rats reduced circulating triglyceride levels and confirmed a role for ChREBP in fructose-mediated dyslipidemia, although steatosis was unaffected (138). Consistent with this, GWAS have identified multiple common SNPs within the ChREBP locus associated with increased serum triglyceride and low HDL cholesterol levels (139, 140).

ChREBP knockdown’s selective effect on circulating triglycerides but not steatosis in the experiment described above highlights the fact that fat accretion in lipid droplets and VLDL secretion are distinct processes. ChREBP potently regulates DNL, and fructose-induced DNL strongly correlates with fructose-induced hypertriglyceridemia (141). However, in steatotic human subjects, DNL-derived fatty acids contribute a minor fraction of fatty acids to VLDL (142), and the mechanistic connection between DNL and VLDL secretion remains uncertain. Moreover, ChREBP may have effects to increase circulating triglycerides independently of increasing VLDL secretion. ChREBP may transactivate expression of the apolipoprotein APOC3 as well as angiopoietin-like 8 (ANGPTL8), both of which may inhibit lipoprotein lipase and limit VLDL clearance (refs. 143, 144, and Figure 3). Thus, it is possible that high-fructose feeding may increase circulating VLDL both by enhancing VLDL production and secretion and by reducing VLDL clearance, but the precise mechanisms remain to be determined.

Figure 3

Consequences of fructose overconsumption. Fructose metabolism in key metabolic tissues including the small intestine, liver, and kidney may contribute to diverse cardiometabolic risk factors including steatosis, increased glucose production, hypertriglyceridemia, increased adiposity, and hypertension. Fructose provides substrate for metabolic processes that contribute to cardiometabolic risk and engages cellular and hormonal signaling systems that regulate these metabolic and pathological processes. LPL, lipoprotein lipase.

PPARγ coactivator 1β (PGC1β) is a transcriptional coactivator that increases the activity of multiple key transcription factors, such as PPARγ, PPARα, estrogen-related receptors (ERRs), and liver X receptor (LXR) (145, 146). PGC1β can also bind SREBP1 and ChREBP and enhance their transcriptional activity (147, 148). ASOs targeting PGC1β prevented SREBP1c expression and lipogenesis, which in turn decreased lipid accumulation in fructose-fed rat livers. PGC1β-targeting ASOs also prevented increases in adiposity, glycemia, and plasma insulin and triglycerides in fructose-fed rats. Thus, PGC1β is uniquely positioned to coordinately regulate both ChREBP and SREBP1c activities in the context of high-fructose feeding.

Increased sugar and fructose consumption is implicated in both simple steatosis and the progression toward more advanced forms of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), including nonalcoholic steatohepatitis, fibrosis, and hepatocellular carcinoma (149). Important steps in DNL and VLDL synthesis occur at the ER membrane, and fructose-induced lipogenesis may elicit ER stress and the ER stress response (150). Moreover, signaling elements in the ER stress response may contribute to NAFLD pathogenesis and progression (151). Recent work from Zhang et al. suggests that ChREBP may protect the liver against fructose-induced ER stress and hepatic inflammation (152). However, we have recently observed that liver-specific ChREBP-knockout mice do not develop ER stress or hepatic inflammation when challenged with high-fructose diets (38). Mechanisms by which fructose may contribute to progression of NAFLD will require further investigation.

Fructose does not directly stimulate pancreatic β cell insulin secretion (153, 154). However, high-fructose feeding readily induces hyperinsulinemia in animal models. Moreover, hyperinsulinemia is more pronounced in rodent models with high-fructose compared with high-dextrose feeding despite similar increases in body weight and adiposity (155, 156). Similarly, hypercaloric fructose feeding increases circulating insulin in human subjects (157). Fructose-induced hyperinsulinemia, often considered a proxy for insulin resistance, might be the result of insulin resistance in some combination of liver, muscle, and/or adipose tissue.

The mechanisms by which high-fructose feeding causes hyperinsulinemia and insulin resistance remain uncertain. Fructose-induced steatosis may contribute to hepatic insulin resistance through increased hepatic diacylglycerol accumulation, PKC activation, and impairment of insulin-mediated Akt2 activation (158–160). However, whether steatosis itself can cause hepatic insulin resistance remains controversial (131, 161). In addition to ChREBP’s role in fructose-induced dyslipidemia, Erion et al. demonstrated that ChREBP knockdown enhanced peripheral insulin sensitivity in high-fructose-fed rats (138). Whether the improvement in peripheral insulin sensitivity was directly related to the improvement in circulating lipid levels or adiposity is uncertain. We recently demonstrated that while hepatic ChREBP is essential for fructose-mediated upregulation of fructolytic, glycolytic, and lipogenic enzymes, ChREBP also mediated upregulation of G6PC, the terminal enzyme in glucose production (133). We showed that a fructose-induced, ChREBP-mediated increase in G6PC activity is a major determinant of endogenous glucose production. Moreover, fructose activated ChREBP and induced G6PC in the absence of FOXO1a, indicating that substrate-driven activation of ChREBP and G6PC to enhance glucose production dominates over the suppressive effects of insulin (133). This ChREBP/G6PC signaling axis is also conserved in humans. These results are consistent with dietary intervention studies in humans indicating that either eucaloric substitution or hypercaloric addition of fructose may have more significant effects on hepatic insulin resistance than peripheral insulin resistance (157). However, as hyperinsulinemia itself can induce peripheral insulin resistance (162, 163), we speculate that chronic hyperinsulinemia that compensates for fructose-induced glucose production may subsequently lead to peripheral insulin resistance. This hypothesis remains to be tested experimentally.

Increased SSB consumption and fructose overconsumption are consistently associated with increased adiposity, which may be attributed to increased caloric intake as well as effects on energy balance and nutrient partitioning that are independent of caloric intake. Fructose is among the sweetest of sugars, and sweetness generally enhances food palatability. This likely contributes to the addition of fructose-containing sugars like sucrose and high-fructose corn syrup to the food supply. Enhanced palatability may increase feeding behavior and thus encourage overeating (164). Moreover, fructose and sucrose can enhance palatability and induce addiction-like behaviors such as binging and dependence in part by stimulating dopaminergic pathways (165–168). Distinct from fructose’s hedonic value, whether fructose impacts additional signaling systems to regulate appetite and feeding behavior has also been studied. For instance, high-fructose feeding may induce leptin resistance, which in turn may lead to increased food intake and obesity (169, 170). Additionally, dietary fructose decreases leptin excursions compared with isocaloric dietary glucose, and fructose is less potent than glucose in suppressing the orexigenic hormone ghrelin (171). In human subjects, fructose versus glucose ingestion has differential effects on hypothalamic blood flow and cerebral cortex reactivity to food cues, suggesting the possibility that fructose and glucose have distinct effects on brain function that may impact feeding behavior (172, 173). The mechanisms by which fructose and glucose differentially regulate appetite and feeding behavior remain to be determined.

Prospective studies in which excess fructose is added on top of habitual diets often document spontaneous reductions in other forms of sugar consumption, suggesting strong feedback mechanisms that specifically regulate sugar consumption (141). Such compensatory mechanisms may contribute to difficulties in accurately assessing dietary sugar consumption in both observational and interventional studies. FGF21 is a liver-derived hormone that regulates energy, glucose, and lipid homeostasis and may also participate in a feedback mechanism regulating macronutrient selection (refs. 174–178 and Figure 3). Increased circulating FGF21 is associated with cardiometabolic risk factors including obesity, NAFLD, type 2 diabetes, and insulin resistance (179–181). FGF21 is a ChREBP transcriptional target (182), and fructose ingestion acutely and robustly induces circulating FGF21, whereas the response to glucose ingestion is less substantial and is delayed (175). Fructose-induced, circulating FGF21 may protect the liver from fructose-induced metabolic disease (183). Interestingly, data from animal models suggest that sugar-induced circulating FGF21 may signal to the brain to suppress additional sugar consumption (184, 185). GWAS also support a role for FGF21 in macronutrient preference, as variants in the FGF21 locus associate with increased dietary carbohydrate consumption relative to dietary fat in human populations (186, 187). However, variants associated with increased carbohydrate consumption also associate with increased circulating FGF21 levels, which is inconsistent with the negative feedback model. More investigation will be required to understand the role of FGF21 in the context of increased sugar and fructose consumption.

The mechanisms by which fructose contributes to the development of hypertension are less well characterized than its effects on glucose and lipid homeostasis. High-fructose feeding in rodents can increase intestinal salt absorption in part through induction of an intestinal anion exchanger, Slc26a6 (188). Moreover, this induction and associated hypertension are prevented in GLUT5-knockout mice (188). However, these results are confounded by the fact that GLUT5-knockout mice suffer generalized malabsorption and become ill when challenged with fructose. Johnson and colleagues have hypothesized that fructose-induced hyperuricemia may impair kidney function, contributing to hypertension (189). However, as discussed above, genetic data do not strongly support a major role for hyperuricemia in cardiometabolic disease. As fructose is robustly metabolized in the kidney, fructose-mediated changes in renal salt handling may also be important. However, this has yet to be rigorously studied and is an area ripe for further investigation.

The combination of mechanistic data supporting a role for excessive fructose ingestion and epidemiological data supporting a role for SSBs in the development of cardiometabolic disease supports recent dietary recommendations to limit sugar consumption published by several public health agencies, including the American Heart Association, the World Health Organization, and the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee (2, 190, 191). Safe thresholds for sugar consumption and concrete recommendations for targets to reduce cardiometabolic risk remain in dispute. Moreover, implementing effective programs to alter dietary habits remains challenging. However, initial reports indicate that “sugar taxes” may be effective in reducing SSB consumption (192, 193). Time will tell whether such approaches can improve health outcomes. Hopefully, by improving our understanding of the underlying mechanisms by which sugar and fructose can cause disease, we will be able to bring informed, comprehensive approaches to bear on our current metabolic epidemics.

This work is supported by American Heart Association 16CSA28590003 (to MAH and NMM), NIH R01DK100425 (to MAH), NIH 5T32HL069772-15 (to DEH), and US Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service agreement 58-1950-4-003 (to NMM).

Conflict of interest: M.A. Herman has received research support from Eli Lilly and Co.

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