Fructose intake can lead to obesity, just like in hibernating animals, CU Researchers say
They don’t seem to have studied the differences at all so I’m not sure you can draw any conclusion like you did.
I think it would be a far more interesting study to see the effects of fructose which is still encased in its dietary fiber vs processed fructose.
There are definitely a lot of indications out there that there’s a big difference but I haven’t seen a good study yet directly comparing the two.