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Gregory Morrow wrote:

Wayne Boatwright wrote:

I'm not saying that I'm a proponent of HFCS, but just what is it that
people are so up in arms about with it?


It's produced very cheaply and so is added in great quantities to many
foodstuffs...the blissninnies think this is bad because if ingeted to
excess it can cause potentially cause obesity, etc.


The production isn't actually much cheaper. It is cheaper to transport,
store and use. Mostly, though, the price of sucrose in the US is double
the price on the world market due to tariffs and taxes. Other countries
don't use HFCS as much, because sucrose is cheaper than in the US.


Most things I try to buy with cane sugar, but it can't always be found in
products.

Refined cane sugar and beet sugar are chemically identical. They are
both sucrose, which is fructose and glucose stuck together. HFCS is
fructose and glucose, *not* stuck together. Fructose is simply the
sugar naturally found in fruit. Glucose is what the body uses for
energy.

"Sugar is sugar is sugar" as the auld saying goes...

Some researchers have found differences, some haven't:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_fructose_corn_syrup

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Dan Abel
Petaluma, California USA