High Fructose Corn Syrup

Corn syrup is the same an sugar just like ethanol is the same as gasoline.

High-fructose corn syrup is a corn-based sweetener. It’s about an equal blend of glucose and fructose and can be bought only by food manufacturers. Its use increased greatly around 1975 because of its low cost, and in the ensuing years it has replaced sucrose as the primary sweetener in processed foods.

Sucrose also contains equal parts glucose and fructose and is used by manufacturers in processed foods. People also use table sugar, a form of sucrose, to sweeten their foods and beverages and for baking. For the most part it comes from sugar beets and sugar cane. Fruit contains naturally occurring sucrose.

Recently concerns have been raised about potential health consequences of high-fructose corn syrup. But there’s insufficient science to vilify it. “Human studies, though short-term and small, consistently show no different impact on measures of health compared with other sugars. Though it’d be nice to have more research, we can confidently say people’s health will benefit most from limiting all sources of calorie-containing sweeteners,” says Cindy Fitch, a nutrition professor at West Virginia University and co-author of an Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics position paper on the topic.

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High Fructose Corn Syrup

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Do you know how much sugar it is estimated that the avg american consumes annually?

72 lbs. We (humans) aren't designed for that much intake. It will lead to massive health problems as we age.

High fructose corn syrup is a chemically modified sweetner using corn (which we consume too much of) and our bodies cannot naturally process it. And high fructose corn syrup is in EVERYTHING.

I have read a good bit of shite about foods that are supposedly bad for you and honestly, every bit of it sounds like self-serving bullshite to me...

I believe that HFCS is simply one of a few ingredients that it is currently trendy to dislike...HFCS is quickly being overtaken by gluetin as the evil ingredient of the day, so don't get too shook up over it all just yet...