Breakfast cereals sold in Britain contain as much as 30 per cent more sugar than the same products in the United States.
We in the UK use sugar. Over in the US they use high fructose corn syrup. Which is sweeter. Thus they use less in order to get the same level of sweetness.
Fructose is sugar
Fructose is _a_ sugar.
What is commonly sold as sugar, is various refinings of sucrose.