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I heard somewhere (on some health video or web site) that due to the bad rap HFCS has received that the FDA allowed food manufactures to replace the words "high fructose corn syrup" with just plain "corn syrup".

Anyone know if there is any truth to that and if so, do you know of a source?

Thanks!!

They are trying to change the name to corn sugar. The FDA apparently agreed to the change, because now the corn growers association behind the name change is being sued by the sugar growers association who claim that calling HFCS 'sugar' would be confusing to consumers.
Kate

Yes it is true and here is the FDA link: http://www.idfa.org/key-issues/category ... ails/4564/

One good thing though, you can not call "high fructose corn syrup" Natural on the label.

j

For what it is worth, Karo syrup is now labeled on the front as containing NO high fructose corn syrup.

Victor Allison

It seems that everyone is running from that word!!!!
f1jim

Now I have to avoid corn syrup. Don't trust it now.
If high fructose corn syrup was not bad for people, then why would they have to change the name of it for people to buy the products? Why can't they just come clean about all the crap in our foods, and tell us if it's good or bad for us. Since the majority of SAD sheeple don't read labels anyway, they would still profit off of their poison.

If you buy processed food you almost can't avoid it. It is in almost everything. It wouldn't be so bad but the accumulated quantity in the Western diet is pretty frightening.
f1jim

My husband needed seasoned bread crumbs to make his meatballs. I found that 4C makes whole wheat crumbs and bought them thinking they'd be a tad healthier than white bread crumbs ... lo and behold, when we got home we discovered that there is HFCS in those bread crumbs. Who'd have thought it? Also found it in bran cereal made by Kellogg's, so even foods you assume will be healthier have that junk in them.

Oops and sorry, posted twice!

I've been doing a new thing lately. If I buy anything processed, it has to be minimally processed, no more than 5 ingredients, and the ingredients have to be no mystery additives like "spices" "natural flavorings" no modified anything, no artificial flavors and colors, no oil, only good wholesome ingredients or I do not buy it. I also avoid corn syrup as much as possible but once in a blue moon, I might need it for a recipe.

Boy that sure limits your options doesn't it! 90% of our shopping is done in the produce or frozen fruit section. Our wost habit is tortilla chips, but we do but plain chips with the least amount of oil we can find, also the least flavor - ha!

I started another thread about a sugar question but so far no replies, may some of you know. I saw on a video that 1 tsp of sugar would shut the immune system down for up to 5 hours. Anyone know if there is any truth to that? Thanks!

This way it makes me stick to better foods. I also spend the majority of my time in the produce section first, then the frozen foods. I do scan the aisles for sales and specials...the stores here, many of them have the "natural" foods in the middle of the aisles, so I check there and sometimes get a great deal, even with the 5 ingredients or less thing.

As for those tortilla chips, you can make your own. Just buy the corn tortillas that are also minimally processed using mostly corn and lime and maybe one or two other ingredients. You can add the seasonings you want, without adding oil. Someone posted recipes for them in the Food and recipe section. I'll have to check out that sugar thing. I bet it has something to do with the refined sugars and syrups, not raw sugar. At least i hope so.

There has been a spate of commercials in which one person tells another person not to eat a product with HFCS. The second person asks why and the lady who criticizes the HFCS looks kind of blank and can't answer the question.

The manufacturer claims that HFCS has about the same amount of glucose and fructose as table sugar. Not true. The manufacturing process produces a product that is about 55 per cent fructose, 42 percent glucose and 3 percent other sugars. Granulated sugar is 50 percent fructose and 50% glucose.

In table sugar, the fructose molecule is tightly bound to the glucose molecule and takes longer and more body chemistry to metabolize into a free glucose molecule and a free fructose molecule. In HFCS the fructose molecule is free and skips a step in the metabolism in order to be utilized.

Lab rats fed fructose develop metabolic syndrome but do not develop this when fed a sugar solution with their rat chow. They develop fat around the abdomen and other storage places and their triglycerides rise much higher.

In the Princeton experiment every rat drinking the fructose solution became fat--every single one, even though the rats were fed half the concentration of that found in soda pop, but the rats getting the sugar solution got the same concentration as in some sugared drinks and the fructose drinking rats gained 48% more weight.

I know that if I consumed arsenic it would kill me. I cannot tell you the mechanism or what it will do to my body. I would hate to have someone in a tv commercial ask me why I wouldn't eat arsenic and have viewers construe my puzzled expression and inability to give the destructive mechanism as a reason to go right ahead and eat arsenic.

Didi

I just read a story today that adds a little more fuel to the HFCS fire. It seems that the Cane Sugar (and Beet Sugar) suppliers have filed a lawsuit to stop the HFCS claims that it is "all the same stuff."

".......The lawsuit, which seeks an end to the ads using the term "corn sugar," states that use of the corn syrup increased over 1,000 percent between 1970 and 1990 and that this rise "bears a strong temporal relationship to the growth in American obesity."

Sugar makers say the corn industry is making a desperate effort to salvage the product which consumers are increasingly avoiding.

Sugar Association lawyer Adam Fox ...said.. the group is seeking to stop the ads because "it is absolutely false for them to characterize this as a natural product."

Alternative medicine guru and author Andrew Weill writes that the corn product "is a marker for low-quality food and has no place in a healthy diet."

"The most widely used kind of HFCS may have disruptive effects on metabolism, as the body doesn't utilize fructose well. In fact, regular consumption of HFCS may contribute to obesity."


Full article here: http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5j3DA2ZGNyYQ2aqWrbjbPA_xDU4EA?docId=CNG.04f1ea4494cd11f8f6bbe3cf278762e1.271&index=0

I sure am glad this stuff isn't in the food I eat anymore.

j