On 3/25/2011 3:18 PM, The Cook wrote:
> On Fri, 25 Mar 2011 10:01:44 -0400, James Silverton
> > wrote:
>
>> On 3/25/2011 9:50 AM, jmcquown wrote:
>>>
>>> > wrote in message
>>> ...
>>>> Why do I need to use corn syrup for pecan pie? What? No one ate
>>>> pecan pie before the invention of corn syrup?
>>>>
>>>> nb
>>>
>>>
>>> I think you're confusing HFCS with plain old bottled corn syrup - light,
>>> dark corn syrup. It's been used for years in making candy and pies.
>>>
>>> Jill
>>
>> HFCS means "high fructose corn syrup" and just what is supposed to be
>> wrong with fructose? Fructose is half of the sucrose molecule anyway
>> (the rest is glucose).
>
>
> Check this out.
>
> http://tinyurl.com/4uuwv4p

This implies that eating a higher proportion of fructose than is present
in natural table sugar (sucrose) may be conducive to obesity. Maybe so,
maybe no, but it sounds more like the stuff produced by that quack
("Dr.") Gary Null.

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James Silverton, Potomac

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