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luthe_n

High Fructose Corn Syrup

Jan 06, 2009 20:12

Has anybody else seen these stupid commercials on tv lately about how high fructose corn syrup is 'just as good as sugar and natural and made from corn'? This is a load of shit. It's been used a preservative in just about EVERYTHING these days, and if having that much SUGAR isn't good for you, I'd say that goes for HFCS as well. Also if you check ( Read more... )

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Interesting HFCS Articl anonymous January 7 2009, 15:51:02 UTC

There was an interesting article on "Nutrition Know How" blog yesterday about some of the misperceptions about High Fructose Corn Syrup. You can read it here: http://nutritionknowhow.org/wordpress/?p=683

- Liz on behalf of the Corn Refiner's Association

Re: Interesting HFCS Articl luthe_n January 7 2009, 22:44:17 UTC

The article is interesting I grant you. But it still does not adequately explain why EVERYTHING from spaghetti sauce to bread to corn chips has HFCS in it. I mean... come on! Corn chips are the saltiest things on the planet why do they need to be sweetened with HFCS? They don't. It's used as a preservative. And when I make spaghetti sauce from scratch is sugar in the recipe? nope ( ... )