It makes me so angry just thinking about it. HFCS is such a horrible horrible chemical. It causes obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and a whole plethora of health risks. The US is the only place in the world that uses HFCS in almost everything.
According to Wikipedia, "The average American consumed approximately 19.2kg of HFCS versus 20kg of sugar in 2004."
But forget about all that, let's be real. HFCS is nasty as hell. If anyone has ever had some real Soda sweetened with cane sugar, you'll know how much better it tastes. I mean, doesn't it make you mad that they use this nasty stuff over cane sugar? I just can't understand why. I know it's cheaper, but that's not a good reason to me.
I know there are worse things in our foods but those are hardly noticable and just for whiny enviromnetalist type people to cry about. Corn syrup is something that in all of our drinks, snacks, whatever. If you drink Coke, Pepsi, whatever you are consuming a large amount of this stuff.
2006-07-31 13:14:39 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous 1 in Food & Drink ➔ Other - Food & Drink
Who thinks they should stop using corn syrup and go back to using cane sugar?
2006-07-31 13:15:45 · update #1
I agree-- its such a pain too.
My 9 year old son is allergic to corn-- which means corn syrup too, as I'm sure you know. Trying to find "kid friendly" treats for him is a real ordeal.
We do most of our shopping at Trader Joe's, Wild Oats, Whole Foods and the like.
2006-07-31 13:19:35 · answer #1 · answered by Lisa the Pooh 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
HFCS is easy to produce, that's why it is used so much. Also the big corporate farms get huge subsidies for growing corn. We should go back to using sugar, cane and beet. but until more people become aware and more politically active it won't happen!
2006-07-31 13:20:46 · answer #2 · answered by ggarsk 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it quite is chemically altered corn syrup, it quite is unquestionably metabolized the comparable way cane sugar is interior the physique. the issue with it quite is that it quite is in each and every thing, there is not any thank you to "eat it moderately". circulate via the grocery sometime and consider the element labels, you will discover extreme fructose corn syrup in practically ninety% of all products that are made. verify out ketchup, verify out bread, verify out crackers verify out arranged ingredients of any type, all of them have the extreme fructose corn syrup in it. till you on no account eat any sophisticated ingredients in any respect, you may not get removed from the stuff, and that's what's inflicting the load problems and diabetes in this usa.
2016-12-11 03:56:24 · answer #3 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the high fructose corn syrup salesman is making a killing though
2006-07-31 13:18:28 · answer #4 · answered by mara 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its cheaper than sugar and they are fattening us up for the aliens.
2006-07-31 13:21:43 · answer #5 · answered by Daniel H 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I hate when you get a water with flavor and it is a sweet flavor...I want water with a splash of real lemon juice......
2006-07-31 13:18:34 · answer #6 · answered by armiki66 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
cuz diabetes is a huge moneymaker for all the rich corporate white people who own everything. duh.
2006-07-31 13:21:09 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋