High-fructose corn syrup is a liquid sweetener made from corn. When corn starch is broken down into individual molecules, it becomes corn syrup, which is 100 percent glucose, a simple sugar. Special ...

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Tyson Foods, one of the largest food companies in the U.S. says it’s removing five chemical additives from its most popular brands. Although the move is voluntary, it aligns with Health Secretary ...

With the advent of processed byproducts, the cheap way to sweeten products has been alchemy: turning American corn into a sugar substitute. But “high fructose corn syrup” has acquired a very bad ...

Yesterday the Food and Drug Administration denied the Corn Refiners Association (CRA) petition to rename high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS) as “corn sugar,” a request they had made almost two years ago, ...

Coca-Cola will be adding cane sugar to its ingredients list after all. “We’re going to be bringing a Coke sweetened with US cane sugar into the market this fall, and I think that will be an enduring ...