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In reply to the discussion: Corporations Have Renamed ‘High Fructose Corn Syrup’ [View all]djean111
(14,255 posts)127. FDA said they could not do that.
Not because it is intended to mislead, of course, but because sugar has to be a solid, dried, crystallized food.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/31/high-fructose-corn-syrup-corn-sugar_n_1558615.html
NEW YORK -- High fructose corn syrup won't get a wholesome new name after all.
The Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday rejected the Corn Refiners Association's bid to rename its sweetening agent "corn sugar."
Given the sweetener's bad reputation in recent years, the association submitted an application to the agency in 2010 to have the product renamed on nutrition labels.
But the FDA said that it defines sugar as a solid, dried and crystallized food not a syrup.
Separately, the Corn Refiners Association has also been running a marketing campaign to explain that its syrup is actually a form of sugar and has the same nutritional value as the familiar white, granular table sugar that consumers are familiar with.
That in turn prompted a lawsuit from the Sugar Association last year claiming that the campaign is misleading.
Dan Callister, a lawyer for the Sugar Association, said the FDA's decision confirms his group's position that sugar and high fructose corn syrup are two distinct products.
"What's going on here is basically a con game to suggest otherwise," Callister said. "What do con men do? They normally try to change their name. The FDA has thankfully stopped that."
Those commercials for "corn sugar" made me barf - "Just the same nutritionally as sugar". Which would be not nutritious at all.
Sugar has no vitamins, no minerals, no fatty acids, no protein, no nothing but empty carbs.
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I add at least 1/3 more pecans than any recipe calls for, LOL- do not like too much goo.
bettyellen
Jan 2015
#139
I tried it with a molasses substitute once- Good, but still not the real thing
NBachers
Jan 2015
#50
Far as I am concerned they can call it whatever they want but its still corn syrup imo.
cstanleytech
Jan 2015
#2
What they fear is the educated consumer who actually read labels and research the unrecognized...
hlthe2b
Jan 2015
#3
"including sugars of all kinds that don't come packaged in a natural fruit form"
Thor_MN
Jan 2015
#11
natural fructose in fruit includes fiber that acts to modulate its impact on blood sugar rises...
hlthe2b
Jan 2015
#15
To say that fresh fruit is healthier than highly processed high sugar cereals is "WOO"?
hlthe2b
Jan 2015
#34
You are calling AMA, ADA, National Academy of Science, NIH, CDC, & academic community anti-science
hlthe2b
Jan 2015
#91
You just go on believeing your distillations of the science you don't understand, provided by the
Thor_MN
Jan 2015
#93
In all reality the odds are that you are far less educted in science and medicine than most
hlthe2b
Jan 2015
#98
Since niether of us knows what the others eductaion is we don't have any basis.
Thor_MN
Jan 2015
#122
Homeopathy is unmitigated bullshit and 100% unalterated woo. No argument there.
Warren DeMontague
Jan 2015
#154
Maybe some classes in chemisty and biology before declaring oneself an expert...
Thor_MN
Jan 2015
#82
different sugars break down in in different areas of the gut. Sugars that dissolve faster
KittyWampus
Jan 2015
#150
In other words, it doesn't matter if it is hydrolysed by sucrase, gastric acid, citric acid.
Thor_MN
Jan 2015
#182
Umm, NO You misnderstand, apparently.. I use/ingest no other sweeteners except whole fruit
hlthe2b
Jan 2015
#118
fruit contains fiber. I eat fruit which is sweet because of natural fructose but aslo contains FIBER
hlthe2b
Jan 2015
#121
I sometimes put dried fruit in, esp. this time of year. But sometimes we get some
CTyankee
Jan 2015
#104
I wish I could get loose mandarin tangerines. They come in a little crate box but
CTyankee
Jan 2015
#110
We often used the Karo corn syrup straight with no flavoring. It was sweet but
rhett o rick
Jan 2015
#56
Well, they were not going to dismantle the HFCS process just because they could not
djean111
Jan 2015
#32
I had edited my post it is the fructose . I had it high you are correct it is low , but
lunasun
Jan 2015
#165
And what of foods with no fiber at all but lots of HFCS? You speak as if all foods with HFCS are
Bluenorthwest
Jan 2015
#178
Money is indeed the bottom line. If they think we are so stupid that a name change is going to help
jwirr
Jan 2015
#78
Sorry, anyone who buys crap like 'Chex' isn't making good choices from the start.
randome
Jan 2015
#79
So will TPP allow said corporation to sue any pesky government that requires truthful labeling?
Faryn Balyncd
Jan 2015
#96