High-fructose corn syrup could become 'corn sugar.'

[The Straight Story]

Group opposes name change for sweetener

High-fructose corn syrup could become 'corn sugar.'


What's in a name? The National Consumers League thinks quite a lot, when it comes to food ingredients.

The Washington-based consumer group is taking issue with a proposal before the Food and Drug Administration to change the name of high-fructose corn syrup, a sweetener commonly found in soft drinks and processed foods, to "corn sugar" on food labels. The group says consumers have begun to increase their awareness of HFCS and its possible effect on expanding waistlines.

Calling it something else, the group says, is confusing and misleading.


"Regardless of where you stand on the debate over high-fructose corn syrup and its effects on our waistlines and our health, changing the name after decades of use is unfair to consumers," said Sally Greenberg, executive director of NCL.

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[XanaDUer]

1. Yeah

Like when Kentucky "Fried" Chicken became KFC to drop that pesky word, with negative connotations, "fried" from the "branding" of the product.

[ananda]

2. It doesn't matter.

As long as it has the word "corn" in it, I will avoid it... as I avoid all corn and starch.

[plumbob]

3. The industry is thinking too small here - why not call it "corn vitamins"?

I mean, hell, if you wanta be deceptive, go for it!

HFCS is "commonly" found? Find something that it's not in. Americans are corn-fed. We either eat the corn directly, as in HFCS, or we eat corn-fed beef, corn-fed, pork, corn-fed chickens, corn-fed catfish, corn-fed shrimp, et al.

When I was growing up, "corn-fed" meant fat. They were right then, and they're right now.

I do notice a few foods are now putting on the label that they have no HFCS in them - one particular ketchup I saw the other day. This all started with the huge tariffs on sugar to make Florida Republicans a ton of money, anyway; not a natural outcome of any kind.

[Vinnie From Indy]

6. LOL!

Very funny!
Cheers!

[Vickers]

23. "corn vitamins"

:rofl:

I have been in a piss-poor mood for about a week, but I do believe you snapped me out of it, my friend!

:thumbsup:

[plumbob]

25. Glad to help!

Thanks for your kind appreciation.

[Ignis]

30. Nicely done, and welcome to DU.

:hi:

[The Backlash Cometh]

4. The only thing it's good for is to dye it red and use it in vampire movies.

[Tsiyu]

5. Must be jelly cuz jam don't shake like that

i noticed that HFC is really slimy. It makes everything feel like slime to me.

It will be a great year to make your own fruit preserves, sauces, pickles since they are putting that slime in everything.

[dana_b]

11. a great time to learn how to cook

if people don't already know how. That crap is in bread, pasta sauces, frozen foods, etc. It's hard to find processed food that doesn't have it.

[jbnow]

13. People just have to know to look ar labels. You can find

plenty of items that don't have it but as you note it is prevalent in every food group, even those we wouldn't expect.

When my sister was complaining about it years ago I rather snugly said I didn't think it was in my diet, I was wrong.
I looked at my "health bread", it was there, in my cereal, my ketchup and on and on.
You can be sure I have read labels since.
Some manufactures don't use it and have said they would not. Aunt Millie is on...
But many manufacturers use it in some products and not others.
There are many ice creams that have it and many that don't but then I figure they might be using that rgbh milk and that doesn't get labeled.

Oy vey

BUT THERE IS A SAFE WAY TO AVOID BOTH! Move to just about any other country where all our fake/altered food are banned. Other countries will not take our milk for drinking and they won't take our fake corn or our "corn sugar" by any name.

We are the experimented upon and usually we do not get to know it. Our food, drinks, cosmetics, shampoos and all have to be reformulated for sales in Canada or overseas but they keep selling the rejects to us.

[dana_b]

15. yeah, because it's so easy to move to another country!!

;)

[liberal N proud]

7. Brilliant scheme by the industry which is currently under attack

With all the discussions about obesity and its causes today, it is no wonder the corn sugar group is pushing for a change. They are just protecting their greedy instincts to keep fattening America while thinning our wallets.

They are preying on America STUPIDITY! :nuke:

[stevedeshazer]

8. Really? They must think people are stupid. Who would fall for this?

Answer: Damn near everyone.

[BadgerKid]

9. The "Corn sugar is just sugar" tv ads show up occasionally. n/t

[katnapped]

16. Hey, come on

That nice lady and her family wandering through the corn fields. What's so sinister about that? :sarcasm:

[robcon]

10. HFCS should be called corn sugar. That's what it is.

n/t

[handmade34]

22. processed corn syrup

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jisBG3egS8o&feature=related

call it what you want but educate the people

[SPedigrees]

24. Sugar causes insulin levels to spike. HFCS does not.

NOT the same.

[louis-t]

12. They're already calling it that in commercials.

Just like Sugar Pops are now Corn Pops, Sugar Smacks are now Dig 'em Smacks or what ever the hell they call them. In their commercials they say that "in moderation" is the key, except that the stuff is in almost everything we eat in huge amounts. Sometimes I look at a cooler in a store and wonder how many gallons of that crap are in this one cooler, then try and multiply it by 100,000 stores.

[no_hypocrisy]

14. I can compromise with the new term printed on products.

"Danger: corn sugar"

[spanone]

17. poison by any other name.....

[Warren DeMontague]

18. Yes. People are being needlessly confused by knowing what is in their food

profit margins must be protected.

[Odin2005]

19. These fuckers are SHAMELESS!

[JackRiddler]

20. They should just go straight to calling it "Healthy Wholesome Organic Substance."

[donheld]

21. Change it to "Corn Poison"

[slackmaster]

26. Home brewers have been calling sugar derived from corn "corn sugar" for a long time

http://www.amazon.com/Corn-Sugar-1lbs-Home-Brew/dp/B000MBW7IK

[Sentath]

28. Yeah, that would be Dextrose, not Fructose

(hFcs, not hDcs)

[slackmaster]

29. True enough, but I don't eat the stuff anyway

I also avoid foods containing HFCS.

[upi402]

27. resistance is futile

Agricorp Americana will hold your nose and tilt your head back if you try to.

[Spike89]

31. Really confusing, but corn syrup (Caro) has no HFCS

Noticed the store brand of corn syrup was seriously discounted (not on sale, just cheap) compared to Caro (both light and dark varieties). The Caro syrups were splashed with big "No HFCS" labels. I looked, the store brand had it listed first.