High-Fructose Corn Syrup Commercial?! FTW!
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Stumble ThisI saw this terrible commercial on tv last night promoting corn syrup as a good alternative to sugar. Those damn corn lobbyists! They've lobbied Washington to make sugar cane imports prohibitively expensive, leaving corn syrup the fiscally responsible choice for the US food service industry. You want real sugar in your Coke? Ha! Go to Mexico for that.
Corn growers are now producing ethanol, but the process is too expensive and wasteful. The Brazilians have the process down, however, but using sugar cane instead of corn. They can import that ethanol at a cheaper price, and we could all benefit from it, but the corn lobbyists got their big brother Washington to put a prohibitively expensive tariff on ethanol imports from Brazil.
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Corn growers are now producing ethanol, but the process is too expensive and wasteful. The Brazilians have the process down, however, but using sugar cane instead of corn. They can import that ethanol at a cheaper price, and we could all benefit from it, but the corn lobbyists got their big brother Washington to put a prohibitively expensive tariff on ethanol imports from Brazil.
Via: ScrapeUp
Don't fuck with Big Corn. Unless you want to be chopped up by a combine then scattered just west of Nebraska City by a manure spreader, just let it go.
Don't let Big Corn do this to you.
HFCS-55 and HFCS-42 are "made from corn" but so are some forms of plastic.
And "doesn't contain any artificial ingredients" is hilarious. It's made using a genetically modified enzyme and requires a huge amount of processing that refines it down to the point it no longer has anything to do with corn.
Due to the FDA having no definition of "natural", a product would have to be made of 100% ground ghosts to stop being natural. At least we can be assured it contains no supernatural ingredients.
Don't post "seem to remember"; post clinical trials, or else it's just FUD.
Here ya go. It even cites sources.
I just watched a show a week or so ago, sorry but I don't remember what the show was, it was either Discover Channel, History Channel or PBS. It had segment on obesity, and they showed a study done with mice. The mice were given equal amounts of food, some were containing sugar, others HFCS. The mice that received food with HFCS were very fat while the mice that received sugar looked like normal mice.
>> ^kronosposeidon:
I'm originally from Nebraska, so I'll give you some friendly advice, son:
Don't fuck with Big Corn. Unless you want to be chopped up by a combine then scattered just west of Nebraska City by a manure spreader, just let it go.
Don't let Big Corn do this to you.
There have been a few basic studies on the dietary impact of glucose and fructose, particular in relation to insulin.
In terms of satiety, this is a fairly recent report :
^ Monsivais et al. (2007). "Sugars and satiety: does the type of sweetener make a difference?". American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 86: 116–123.
Chemically the corn syrup (55% fructose and 45% glucose) used in foods is very similar to sucrose (50% fructose and 50% glucose) and thus mimics its apparent sweetness.
The chief difference, aside from the slight increase in fructose is that sucrose is a disaccharide - the fructose and glucose are covalently bonded by a condensation reaction (removal of a H20).
Corn syrup however, consists of individual molecules of glucose and fructose, which aside from tasting different, can be absorbed more readily by the body : The body requires an enzyme to break down the sucrose into fructose and glucose.
It's pretty clear that refined foods are for the most part bad for us because they deliver nutrients in concentrations far greater than we could ever get by harvesting food by hand. High concentrations of fructose could be problematic.
Honey from bees contains free fructose and glucose molecules (48%,47%), and so would pose a similar risk - the main difference is that honey is not consumed in such vast concentrations as found in soft drinks.
If you really want to taste how much sugar is in a soft drink. Let it go cold and flat and see how much you can drink.
http://www.4hoteliers.com/4hots_fshw.php?mwi=1243
So sadly, I think the advert does have a point: It is probably fine in moderation though perhaps they should have stated (and like honey, it is fine in moderation).
Besides, drinks with real sugar in them taste better.