High-Fructose Corn Syrup: Safe as sugar?

If High Fructose Corn Syrup is wrong, then I don' t want to be right.

<Takes another drink of Mountain Dew>

We rarely use barbecue sauce...every once in a while...but I never even thought to look there. No - I am definitely food label illiterate.

It takes so much longer to shop, but I try to read for that and sodium. Another scary thing when you start reading labels.

I remember a crepe place called the Magic Pan. I've no idea if that still exists. It was a kind of crepe intro to people like me who had up until then known nothing at all about them except maybe reading the word crepe at some point. Looking back, I'd probably see their food as middling, but the then me really enjoyed going there.

Well, hell, I've never been to France.. (she sings).



Yeh, juices are way sugared up.

Here is a link to Center for Science in the Public Interest. They examine all kinds of food and nutritional information. They are a very good source to learn about food additives, ingredients etc. http://www.cspinet.org/

I only buy 100% juice and again double check the contents on the labels. It costs more, but it so much better.

Thanks, Green. Bookmarking that link.

me too...thanks so much. I always get convicted when I read how hard you all work on eating right and well. Sheesh...one more thing to do.

So, back to prime content.

I'm not sure corn syrup itself is some fallutin' evil on its own. It's use seems to be.




Nuts, now I have to look up what falluting means and how used.

Hey, Mis, I've noticed for a long time that you pay attention to food, for its pleasure and nutrition. You're golden, be calm.

Drinking Moutain Dew can cause the unpleasant side effect of a yellow discharge from your penis!

BTW, outside the US, the Mountain Dew is made with sugar.

Now there's a visual!

Interesting.. I wonder how different it tastes. As long as it still has orange juice in it, it should be good. That's the key ingredient all Mt. Dew knock-offs forget.

Edit: I want to be clear here that I'm talking about Mt. Dew made with sugar, not the yellow discharge...

I remember liking (g'help me and it was long ago) Nescafe in Mexico better than that in the US, hating their Salem's, and can only applaud they still use sugar in their pop.

Alas, I look at a can of Jumex peach nectar and see high fructose corn syrup high up on the list.

But, maybe that's just the one company sending exports here. Or maybe the company IS here.

What happens to those with no penis?

thank you osso...I am comforted



I am glad you clarified...I was wondering

Ooofa (pronounced like loofa), here's Jumex: it is an import here from Mexico.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jumex

Wikipedia has a pretty good entry about High Fructose Corn Syrup, and it's health effects implications.


High Fructose corn syrup: Health effects
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There are indications that soda and sweet drinks provide a greater proportion of daily calories than any other food in the American diet.[20] Overconsumption of sugars has been linked to adverse health effects, and most of these effects are similar for HFCS and sucrose. There is a correlation between the rise of obesity in the U.S. and the use of HFCS for sweetening beverages and foods. The controversy largely comes down to whether this is coincidence or a causal relationship. Some critics of HFCS do not claim that it is any worse than similar quantities of sucrose would be, but rather focus on its prominent role in the overconsumption of sugar; for example, encouraging overconsumption through its low cost.

The possible difference in health effects between sucrose and HFCS could come from the difference in chemical make up between them[citation needed]. HFCS 55 (the type most commonly used in soft drinks) is made up of 55% fructose and 45% glucose. By contrast, sucrose is made up of 50% fructose and 50% glucose. Furthermore, the fructose and glucose in HFCS 55 are in the form of separate molecules; by contrast, the fructose and glucose that are contained in sucrose are joined together to form a single molecule (called a disaccharide). This chemical difference may be less significant in many beverages that are sweetened with sucrose. This is because many beverages are strongly acidic, and the acid in the beverage will cause the sucrose to separate into its component parts of glucose and fructose. The amount of sucrose converted will depend on the temperature the beverage is kept at and the amount of time it is kept at this temperature.
more. . .

I'm not sure I buy that re fructose, sucrose, glucose. But I don't not buy it either. Await input from sugar biochemists.

Howsomever, I think much of what has been going on has been from marketing, adverising, ad availability, plus after the fact ubiquitousness - hard to get away from this stuff.

I remain unclear that whatever is in corn syrup is so called evil, but that its distribution can have ill effects isn't all that unclear - sugar pumping.

My spelling has suffered loss. That's advertising, and 'and'.