Re:High fructose corn syrup rebranded as 'corn sugar'
by Goladus on Tuesday September 14, 2010 @01:55PM
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I'm not even prepared to agree that HFCS is evil. Just that there are reasons to differentiate it from sucrose, and sugar is essentially synonymous with sucrose. "Corn sucrose" is clearly not accurate, and "corn sugar" means essentially that.
(Also, prefacing a comment with "look," is superfluous)
Re:High fructose corn syrup rebranded as 'corn sugar'
by sophacles on Tuesday September 14, 2010 @01:49PM
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An interesting personal observation to that controversial study: When I drink a regular hfcs-sweetened cola, it really has no noticable affect on my hunger level, on my fullness level, nothing. On the other hand when I drink one of the can sugar varieties, it actually does sate some hunger. Further, the cane sugar varieties make me feel full after drinking one.
I am not unique in this observation... but it is still anecdotal, take it as you will.
Look, to avoid a rathole argument that neither of us are really qualified to have, let's just stipulate: HFCS is evil. I completely agree. Regardless of any distinctive biochemical affects, it is clearly a tool used by the food industry to amp up palatability (and thus consumption and thus profit margin) in processed foods. But if we fixate on HFCS, we're just going to be victimized by the whatever sugar the industry replaces HFCS with.