High-fructose corn syrup

Dear Aunt, Your concerns about high fructose corn syrup are completely understandable. There are so many conflicting statements and ideas on the subject; it is no wonder that such controversy surrounds it. In order to fully understand the effects that high fructose corn syrup has on the body, we should start with what HFCS really is. The sweeteners that we all know and love, such as table sugar and honey, are made up of two simple sugars: glucose and fructose. Simple sugars, also known as…

“Free sugars refer to monosaccharides (such as glucose, fructose) and disaccharides (such as sucrose or table sugar) added to food and drinks… and sugars naturally present in honey, syrups, fruit juices and fruit concentrates” (WHO). Despite this report, sugar lobbyists recommend 25 percent which is two and half times the scientific recommendation from the WHO. Because these…

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sweetened with high fructose corn syrup while diet coke is sweetened with artificial sweeteners (aspartame). Regular coke has more calories and a stronger taste than diet coke, while diet coke has less calories and taste more bland. However regular coke can cause weight loss while diet coke can cause weight gain. Diet coke comes with many risks. In fact drinking one diet soda a day gives you a 36% more chance to have metabolic syndrome and diabetes. Metabolic Syndrome means you have high…

artificial flavors, sugars, and addictive chemicals.These things added into the products produced can cause long term damages on growing bodies or full grown adults. Most factors produce are pumped full with sugar or the fake step’ sibling ,high fructose corn syrup. Not only is the sugar added but, artificial ingredients or flavors are as well. Don't worry there's more, the body can get addicted to “junk food” the “ highly rewarded” junk food. The added ingredients takes over or hijacks the…

“Avoid food products containing ingredients that are (a) unfamiliar, (b) unpronounceable, (c) more than five in number, or that include (d) high fructose corn syrup.” (para 9) Just as Pollan suggests not following these rules won’t harm anyone instead it is a helpful indicator of what foods have been highly processed. There are countless numbers of processed foods that the average American will consume…

ongoing health problems. Although sugars can be found naturally in fruits, vegetables, and milk, the majority of sugar being consumed in found in processed foods and beverages. The name for sugar can be hidden in food labels and can vary from high fructose corn syrup, glucose, dextrose, sucrose, and much more. These variations of sugar can be found in the majority of processed foods that are being consumed by Americans every day. As many children begin to consume added sugars at a very young…

true that all of today’s agricultural products are produced in this fashion. There still exist smaller farms that on which people grow , the same way crops were meant to be grown and the way that cows never needed medicine from being fed nothing but corn. I will base the healthiness of food based on what it has been grown with, such as whether it was grown using pesticides, or in the case of animals, what they were fed and whether they were given antibiotics. My goal would to be to create…

grams of Ketchup is put on their burgers, so another 2.6 gallons of water is used (Mekonnen & Hoekstra, 2010b). The Ketchup does have, in this serving size, four grams of high fructose corn syrup contributing about 2 gallons to the amount stated before of 140 gallons for the total amount used in the production of high fructose corn…

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