Goodbye 'HFCS'! Hello 'Corn Sugar'!

[gsdx]

Don't you just love it?

High-Fructose Corn Syrup - The Corn Refiners Association recently asked the FDA in the U.S. to allow high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS) to be renamed 'corn sugar' for labelling purposes.

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/nphotos/slideshow/ss/events/hl/100917_danfood

 

[Knucklehead]

Typical...Now that they now people are on to this poison they want to rename it..Not eliminate it, just rename it..

 

[HornyHenry]

Another change to try to sell more of it.
It's worse now because so much of the corn grown today is genetically tampered.

 

[EJMichaels]

Not surprised. Thanks for the info. Also, lately, I've been noticing much abuse of the word "natural". For example, with peanut butter, this used to mean just peanuts and maybe salt, no sweetener or oils added. Now, they use it for pb with various "additives":
"Made from roasted peanuts, sugar, contains 2% or less of: palm oil, salt, molasses." (Jif Natural; others were similar)

 

[freefall]

Yeah, really love it that I threw away my pancake syrup which is actually HFCS.
Hope those producers die by their own product clogging their blood vessels.

 

[boxerdudeuk]

fuck you, FDA.

 

[resonance]

"Corn Sugar" is easier to remember and to say for a now everyday household product. I applaud the change.

 

[gsdx]

"Corn Sugar" is easier to remember and to say for a now everyday household product. I applaud the change.

Who cares if it's easier to say? How often has High Fructose Corn Syrup come up in your everyday conversation in the past decade or two?

Changing the name doesn't make it any less dangerous. It's just a way to hide their government-sanctioned poison behind a new name until people catch on.

 

[Bored]

I feel dumb. I have no clue what HFCS does. I know it's bad and I try to avoid it but I do not know what it does to people. X.X

 

[gsdx]

I feel dumb. I have no clue what HFCS does. I know it's bad and I try to avoid it but I do not know what it does to people. X.X

Corn syrup is a glucose-heavy syrup made from corn starch. There's no fructose in corn syrup -- not naturally, at least. In 1957, researchers discovered an enzyme that could turn the glucose in corn syrup into fructose. This process was modified and improved upon in the 1970s, making it possible to mass-produce HFCS. The entire process involves several steps and three different enzymes, but eventually a syrup with around 90 percent fructose content is created, and this is blended down with untreated syrup (containing only glucose) into a mix of either 42 percent or 55 percent fructose. The rest is glucose.

http://recipes.howstuffworks.com/high-fructose-corn-syrup.htm

Some say HFSC causes obesity and diabetes, both of which have increased in number along with the increased use of HFSC. It's not a natural fructose and the body doesn't know how to process it, but it's cheap enough that it makes a very inexpensive sweetener. Manufacturers, of course, claim that's it's all a bunch of lies.

The link above explains it in more detail and there is also a video explanation as well.

 

[Bored]

Well, for me, it's hard to avoid some ingredients. My family isn't wealthy enough to buy me a set of food and the rest of the family their food. QQ I avoid MSG at all times. I could try and avoid this now.

 

[jasoncrew03]

Who cares? Research shows HFCS differs only very slightly from other sweeteners, and the differences in it's nutritional value are minimal. And the results from those studies are almost completely illusory correlations. Yeah if you drink a lot of soda and eat a lot of shit you're gonna get fat! You eat a lot of anything and you're gonna get fat.

 

[jasoncrew03]

^I don't think you know what an illusory correlation is.....

 

[StationToStation]

I'm glad there are so many other healthier options out there than corn sugar. I will avoid corn sugar labelled food. I bought some juice thinking it was juice, but actually had HFCs, I literally got sick from it, it spiked my blood sugar level and was nauseous for a few hours.

 

[gsdx]

Welcome to your Orwellian America. :c)Nevermind that it doesn't decompose normally and fucking insects won't even go for the shit. -_-

Indeed. Sugar is natural. HFCS is artificial. The body doesn't know how to process it. But it's cheap cheap cheap to manufacture which means bigger profits in every product which uses it as a sweetener.

 

[Joshua_me]

fuck you, FDA.

^ Quoted for brevity.

Their new ad campaign has already begun, saying that the "dangers" of HFCS are just an urban myth, and that "sugar is sugar" no matter where it comes from...

Let's shoot 'em after we fuck 'em.

 

[Sausy]

Who cares if it's easier to say? How often has High Fructose Corn Syrup come up in your everyday conversation in the past decade or two?

Changing the name doesn't make it any less dangerous. It's just a way to hide their government-sanctioned poison behind a new name until people catch on.

Agree....this isn't even regular corn syrup,but processed so it's sweeter but is not as easily broken down in the body.Might as well just relabel it poison.If this FDA approves,then they are a complete joke.

 

[MidnightPrism]

If this FDA approves,then they are a complete joke.

They already are.

 

[gsdx]

If this FDA approves,then they are a complete joke.

They already are.

Especially when they allow products like HFCS and Aspartame yet go after General Mills for claiming that Cheerios are good for the heart.

 

[thermodynamics]

OK...Time to bring some facts into the (not so rational) discussion.

Meet the saccharides ("sweet' molecules): glucose, fructose, and sucrose.

Glucose is a monosaccharide (one sweet molecule). Same with fructose.

Sucrose (table sugar) is made up of one glucose molecule and one fructose molecule joined by a water molecule. That's why it's called a DIsaccharide (two "sweet" molecules). Sucrose is basically the same as HFCS-50% without the water molecule. HFCS is usually made as HFCS-42% and HFCS-55%. So HFCS is already practically the same as sucrose. Fructose-Glucose imbalances (other than 50%) are common in fruits.

The first step in metabolysis of sucrose is to break the sucrose apart yielding one glucose molecule, one sucrose molecule and one water molecule. HFCS effectively saves a step.