The truth about HFCS
Oct 12th, 2008 | By admin | Category: consumer knowledgeHigh Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS) has found its way into an alarming number of foods and beverages. Of course, the corn industry profits from its sale, so they’ve launched a campaign to fool consumers into thinking its perfectly healthy.High fructose corn syrup is a mix of fructose and glucose obtained through the enzymatic transformation of corn starch to a syrupy mix of fructose (later mixed with the glucose). We haven’t been studying the begative effects of HFCS for too long, but research is showing that it is more readily transformed to fat in the liver than natural sugar - it can lead to a ‘fatty liver,’ the same kind that is seen with alcoholics.Additionally, tests in lab animals have shown that high fructose corn syrup may be more likely to cause diabetes than natural sugar.High Fructose Corn Syrup was invented in Japan in the 1970s, so it hasn’t been around too long - it’s use has really become prolific since the 1990s. What does this mean? It means that we have only begun to see the long term effects of HFCS overconsumption. Humans have been consuming natural sugar for thousands of years we know just about everything there is to know about it. Is High Fructose Cron Syrup okay in moderation? Probably, yeah. But what is moderation? High Fructose Corn Syrup is in so many products nowadays that most people consume it in large doses many times daily. In fact, High Fructose Corn Syrup is now the largerst source of caloric intake in the USA - that’s not moderation.Besides, HFCS tastes bad - it has a ’sticky sweet’ aftertaste. Natural sugar has a much cleaner and more satisfying taste.
