In the past week I've seen an ad a couple of times geared towards warding off the anti-HFCS (high fructose corn syrup) sentiment in foods. I finally made note of the URL: http://www.sweetsurprise.com/ From that site there's a link to www.HFCSfacts.com
They're obviously starting to feel a pinch in consumer rejection of HFCS since they're running ads to tell us IT'S MADE FROM CORN! :)
>> In the past week I've seen an ad a couple of times geared towards >> warding off the anti-HFCS (high fructose corn syrup) sentiment in >> foods. I finally made note of the URL: >> http://www.sweetsurprise.com/ From that site there's a link to >> www.HFCSfacts.com
>> They're obviously starting to feel a pinch in consumer rejection of >> HFCS since they're running ads to tell us IT'S MADE FROM CORN! :)
> Supposedly any corn not used for HFCS can be used for ethanol > production and bring in the same price, or more.
> This is probably just a cover for ADM and Big Soda, not the corn > farmers producers themselves.
> -sw
You can read into it: corn lobbyists.
I'll admit I have purposely purchased corn syrup for making peanut brittle. I cannot think of anything else I purposely purchased it for nor anything else I wanted to add it to. I don't drink soda pop (Coca Cola, Sprite, yada, yada). And I don't care to drink ethanol, even though it could be construed as "corn squeezin's".
> On Sep 6, 3:05 pm, "jmcquown" <j_mcqu...@comcast.net> wrote: > > In the past week I've seen an ad a couple of times geared towards warding > > off the anti-HFCS (high fructose corn syrup) sentiment in foods. I finally > > made note of the URL: http://www.sweetsurprise.com/ From that site there's > > a link towww.HFCSfacts.com
> > They're obviously starting to feel a pinch in consumer rejection of HFCS > > since they're running ads to tell us IT'S MADE FROM CORN! :)
> Fight back? Against what? They have never ever before made as much > as they're making right now. Who should be fighting back are those > who want them to grow corn to eat, not to be made into HFCS and not to > be made into ethanol. -aem
It's sugar price supports which make U.S. sugar 2X to 4X the world price. We would not have a domestic beet sugar industry without these price supports, and only a small cane sugar industry (mostly in P.R.).
Sugar price supports have decimated the U.S. candy industry, with most of it moving to Canada and Mexico.
You can't use HFCS to make most forms of candy, because it doesn't easily set up into a solid, unlike sucrose. However, HFCS is perfectly adaptable to liquid products like soda, so we have this weird situation in which sucrose is price-controlled at very high prices, but a new product (HFCS) makes an end-run around the price controls for the big cola companies. You have major interests supporting the continuation of price supports, and then other interests which support the loophole.
Who gets screwed is the U.S. small- to mid-size candy manufacturers, and all U.S. candy manufacturers are small- to mid-size manufacturers compared to the cola companies.
> I'll admit I have purposely purchased corn syrup for making > peanut brittle. I cannot think of anything else I purposely > purchased it for nor anything else I wanted to add it to.
corn syrup isn't the same thing as HFCS. corn syrup is just as natural as cane sugar syrup. HFCS is chemically produced in a lab. lee
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On Sat, 6 Sep 2008 20:37:01 -0400, "jmcquown" <j_mcqu...@comcast.net> wrote:
>I'll admit I have purposely purchased corn syrup for making peanut brittle. >I cannot think of anything else I purposely purchased it for nor anything >else I wanted to add it to.
I buy it to make pecan pie, but I don't want it in my food unless *I* choose to add it. I also don't want beet sugar in my food. I want cane sugar.
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>> I'll admit I have purposely purchased corn syrup for making >> peanut brittle. I cannot think of anything else I purposely >> purchased it for nor anything else I wanted to add it to.
> corn syrup isn't the same thing as HFCS. corn syrup is just > as natural as cane sugar syrup. HFCS is chemically produced in > a lab. > lee
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"jmcquown" <j_mcqu...@comcast.net> wrote: > In the past week I've seen an ad a couple of times geared towards warding > off the anti-HFCS (high fructose corn syrup) sentiment in foods. I finally > made note of the URL: http://www.sweetsurprise.com/ From that site there's > a link to www.HFCSfacts.com
> They're obviously starting to feel a pinch in consumer rejection of HFCS > since they're running ads to tell us IT'S MADE FROM CORN! :)
> Jill
It also is famous for contributing to Insulin resistance which can lead to type II diabetes...
They need to just use whole corn for what it's meant to be used for.
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jmcquown wrote: > In the past week I've seen an ad a couple of times geared towards > warding off the anti-HFCS (high fructose corn syrup) sentiment in > foods. I finally made note of the URL: http://www.sweetsurprise.com/ > From that site there's a link to www.HFCSfacts.com
> They're obviously starting to feel a pinch in consumer rejection of HFCS > since they're running ads to tell us IT'S MADE FROM CORN! :)
> Jill
Interesting. And one would think with corn's use for ethanol (and I won't get into the wisdom of that), they wouldn't care so much about its use in food. *I* hope that as corn and HFCS become more expensive, manufacturers will turn back to sugar--or (gasp!) they could stop putting sweetener into everything. But, as I type this, I can see that the younger folks would think that is how the savory foods should taste, and they would be unhappy if they weren't sweet!!!!!
On Sat, 06 Sep 2008 19:35:38 -0700, sf wrote: >I buy it to make pecan pie, but I don't want it in my food unless *I* >choose to add it. I also don't want beet sugar in my food. I want >cane sugar.
Hmm... IIRC white table sugar, whether from sugar beets or sugarcane, is >96% sucrose, though the two can be distinguished by careful lab tests. (Probably not by me, it's been too many years since I did any real analytical chemistry...)
I'm not saying beet sugar is better or worse than cane sugar, just wondering the basis of a claim that one is better/worse than the other.
Molasses from the two apparently are significantly different.
On Sat, 06 Sep 2008 19:35:38 -0700, sf wrote: > On Sat, 6 Sep 2008 20:37:01 -0400, "jmcquown" <j_mcqu...@comcast.net> > wrote:
>>I'll admit I have purposely purchased corn syrup for making peanut brittle. >>I cannot think of anything else I purposely purchased it for nor anything >>else I wanted to add it to.
> I buy it to make pecan pie, but I don't want it in my food unless *I* > choose to add it. I also don't want beet sugar in my food. I want > cane sugar.
