Industry Wants High Fructose Corn Syrup Re-Labeled as “Corn Sugar”

[one...two...tree 2,762]

Also HEB sells ketchup without HFCS for the same price as a bottle of Heinz Ketchup.

I think the problem with obesity in the US is that people don't know how to regulate. They say "chocolate is good for whatever" and people go and buy and eventually eat chocolate. They say "red wine is good for the heart" and people go and drink plenty of red wine, way too much. They say..."a glass of orange juice erases the '#######' from eating a hamburger' (heard that on the radio the other day) so I bet some people go and get Sunny D (which should be called ObesiD) with HFCS and color #2 yello #5blue etc. and drink that en masse while enjoying a hamburger.

I think part of the frenzied trends are perpetuated by the food industry, which uses any study or finding in their favor to help promote their products. I just watched one of the most absurd commercials I've seen of Honey Nut Cheerios. A scruffy looking father is eating a bowl of Cheerios and lays a guilt trip on his son who wants to have some too, saying that he needs the Cheerios to lower his cholesterol.

It's really difficult to know whether people easily jump on the band wagon over any study on nutrition that says drink more red wine or eat more chocolate, or if we are just hearing the echo of marketing hype.

[Heracles 417]

I heard this on the radio. What a bunch of cunning bastards.

Naturally, no one asks why few other countries use this #######, known to be linked to cancer, in their products.

[Saddle Bronc 124]

I have no friggin clue where I got this, but I thought they started using HFCS because Louisiana was the major sugar cane producer and they didn't want imports of sugar bringing the price of sugar cane down. The US needed more sugar and there's lots of corn in the US?

Don't some of the northern states (such as MT) produce loads-and-loads of sugar-beets?

[Amyyduck 20]

The US government subsidizes the corn industry. Its more profitable for farmers to grow corn than almost anything else. This is why corn is so prevalent in the US. Its used as a sweetener in almost everything, as feed for cattle and other animals , and corn ethanol is added into our auto fuel. I've even seen biodegradable plastic cups and other disposable dishware made out of corn. Its everywhere.

According to Wikipedia in 2008, the US produced 12.1 BILLION bushels of corn. A bushel of (shelled) corn is 56 pounds. That is a whole LOT of corn!

Edited September 15, 2010 by Amyyduck

[Pooky 3,795]

HFCS is a four letter word

Corn Sugar has one too many letters. Take out the first "r" and you get Con Sugar, which about sums it up, really.