High Fructose Corn Syrup

[Strike For The South]

Lately here over in the States the corn lobby (Read Iowa) has been producing These mind numbing commercials Now this is just straight up wrong. This article is pretty good and straight forward.

I'm not saying I don't partake in HFCS I probably take in more than I should but this stuff is worse than cigarettes and it's in everything!

Im not saying we should ban it or even put "warning" labels on it, people can make there own decisions I'm just on my soap box

[seireikhaan]

Stop raining on our sugary parade.

[Sasaki Kojiro]

I love the fact that their ad campaign is "It's just as healthy as sugar!"

I'm not convinced that it's significantly worse than sugar though.

[Marshal Murat]

I'm not convinced that it's significantly worse than sugar though.

It's not worse than sugar, it's simply that High Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS) and Corn is in everything Americans eat.

HFCS is in most drinks (diet drinks excluded), candy, and most processed food (Pop-tarts namely). Like the ad said, it's good in moderation, but how can you moderate HFCS intake when most of the food one can buy has HFCS?
Corn is even worse, since the meat one eats is fed with corn or corn meal. Most breads, unless they are whole grain, have corn as filled. The entire nation is fed off corn grown in the US Midwest. What they don't tell you is that the corn grown, almost entirely, is inedible. You can't eat it or process it naturally. They feed that corn to cows, pigs, chickens, etc. or mix it into HFCS. All this corn is grown because farmers get subsidies from the US government to grow corn instead of wheat, barley, oats, or any other grains, or to raise other crops. The farmers then get subsidized fertilizers to help grow the corn. If they don't grow corn, it isn't profitable.

PBS:KING CORN

Fast Food Facts

High fructose corn syrup (HFCS) is corn syrup that has been modified to increase the level of fructose. It has become a popular topic in the discussion of obesity in America. The reason for this is that HFCS comsumption has increased dramatically since the 1970s when it was developed and so has obesity. It has not been proven that there is a link, but the average American consumed 39 pounds of HFCS in 1980 and 62.6 pounds in 2001.

Mayo Clinic

While research continues, moderation remains important. Many beverages and other processed foods made with high-fructose corn syrup and other sweeteners are high in calories and low in nutritional value. Regularly including these products in your diet has the potential to promote obesity — which, in turn, promotes conditions such as type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure and coronary artery disease.

Women's Fitness Diet Tips

Accidental Hedonist List

Baking and Cooking ingredients

Kellogg's® Corn Flake Crumbs
Nabisco Oreo Cookie Crumbs
Shake n Bake - Tangy Honey Glaze
Shake n Bake - Honey Mustard Glaze
Stove Top Stuffing - Chicken
Stove Top Stuffing - Cornbread
Stove Top Stuffing - Homestyle Herb
Stove Top Stuffing - Pork
Stove Top Stuffing - Turkey

[Strike For The South]

Good point on the meats. I try to buy the grass fed stuff but even here where most of the cows are raised it still costs a pretty penny.

[seireikhaan]

Good point on the meats. I try to buy the grass fed stuff but even here where most of the cows are raised it still costs a pretty penny.

Nothin' wrong with the corn in feed. Just don't eat it.

[Lemur]

Good point on the meats. I try to buy the grass fed stuff but even here where most of the cows are raised it still costs a pretty penny.

Mrs. Lemur sources our meat from local farmers, but you're right, it costs more to eat the grass-fed stuff. We treat red meat like a special occasion now, eating it maybe once a week. The rest of the time it's chicken (clean chicken is a lot less expensive than clean beef) or pork, or no meat. I'm not convinced this is a bad way to eat. I doubt our ancestors had a half-pound of red meat every day.

[Louis VI the Fat]

Gah! You people American, or what? Eat yer corn!


All civilizations have a spiritual centre. For America, this is not New York. That is an island near America. Founded by Dutch traders, afraid of the interior. European, cosmopolitan, semi-detached from America.

America is the heartland. Carving out an existence here, tilling the soil is what makes an American. The heart of the heartland is Chicago. The real capital of America. The city that more than any other has historically captured the imagination of the outside world. Within Chicago, lies the sanctum sanctorum of the United States. Their Pyramids, their Acropolis, their Louvre. Here you have it, the essence of a civilization cut in stone:

The Corn Cobs. What is more, it combines corn with that other essential ingredient of America: mobility and the automobile. Those are not windows in the bottom half, but parking places. Park a car, and it looks like a single corn kernel. During traffic hours, it looks like God is eating them like corn.

Brilliant, brilliant! With the exception of Disneyland, the very greatest works of art in America. They are simply perfect!!!

[Sasaki Kojiro]

We'll still have apples Louis.

[drone]

I was hoping the disastrous corn ethanol fiasco would raise the price of HFCS to the point where cane sugar could compete and we could see colas made the old-fashioned way. Oh well, it was not to be.

[Lemur]

You can still buy Coca-Cola made with sugar, you just have to get the stuff from Mexico. It's against the law to use HFCS in drinks there, I guess. The supermercado in our little town carries the stuff; I picked up case for our last party. People really liked it.

[seireikhaan]

Its good to see at least Louis understands that Iowa is the true capital of the USA.

[Aemilius Paulus]

You can still buy Coca-Cola made with sugar, you just have to get the stuff from Mexico. It's against the law to use HFCS in drinks there, I guess. The supermercado in our little town carries the stuff; I picked up case for our last party. People really liked it.

Heh, yeah, when I go to Europe and particularly Russia in the summers, I get to try Russian Coke. And boy does it taste well compared to US Coke. It is as is it is an entirely new drink. The difference is humongous. It is so much fresher and better.

Aside from the taste and the weight gain due to the extra calories from high fructose content, HFCS is absolutely fine. Just a different sweetener that is all. Glucose, sucrose, fructose, mannose, raffinose, lactose, maltose, etc are all merely different types of sugar. No distinctions should be amde between "natural" and "artificial" for there is no difference. Plenty of natural sugar substitutes are harmful as well.