Ingredients such as salt and corn syrup that the Food and Drug Administration calls "generally recognized as safe" can be used in foods without thorough government review. The head of the Health and ...

Coca-Cola confirms it will start offering Coke sweetened with cane sugar in the U.S. this fall, along with the current recipe that uses high-fructose corn syrup. The announcement came after President ...

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 ...

High fructose corn syrup — an ingredient in everything from soda to ketchup to pickles — has such a bad reputation that the Corn Refiners Association (CRA) wants to change the name of the popular ...

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 ...