High Fructose Corn Syrup in some of the most popular snacks on the market.

A farmer harvests corn along southbound Interstate 35 in Iowa on Nov. 23, 2024. (Photo by Cami Koons/Iowa Capital Dispatch) Corn, the nation’s largest crop, is produced for a variety of uses, ...

Corn is a healthy whole food, but it’s also the starting point for many highly processed byproducts. Among the most common (and most often demonized): high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS). This liquid ...

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When I started to work a night shift at a bakery after cooking school, I was humbled by the odd hours. And I was equally humbled by corn syrup. At the grocery store, you’ll find two types of corn ...

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 ...

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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Though some have blamed the U.S. obesity problem on the corn syrup ubiquitous in processed foods, a new study casts some doubt on this idea. Researchers found that ...