High-fructose corn syrup (HFCS) is a fructose-glucose liquid sweetener alternative to sucrose (common table sugar) first introduced to the food and beverage industry in the 1970s. It is not meaningfully different in composition or metabolism from other fructose-glucose sweeteners like sucrose‚ honey‚ and fruit juice concentrates. HFCS was widely embraced by food formulators‚ and its use grew between the mid-1970s and mid-1990s‚ principally as a replacement for sucrose. This was primarily because
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Before watching this movie‚ I thought corn farms would be produced through plantation agriculture since corn is usually produced in large quantities on monoculture farms‚ or intensive agriculture because farmers want more crops using less amount of land so they are able to make more profit from their harvested crops. I imagined corn farms to be hundreds‚ maybe even thousands‚ of rows of green husks stretching for miles. Once the corns were in seasons and ready to be harvested‚ there would be tractors
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the cause and affect of the industrialized corn crop. I decided on this subject after my own battle with illness. This battle‚ ended up changing my diet‚ and my life as it turns out. I have almost completely removed any corn derived product from my life (all-be-it difficult sometimes) and am a proponent of a purely organic vegetarian diet. One Nation Under Corn? Chad Cribb DeVry University One Nation Under Corn One of the many freedoms we enjoy
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Rock Solid Future From corn High- Fructose Corn Syrup is formed. High-fructose Corn syrup is now used in the products we see all over the home and grocery store. Farmers know that this is a guarantee profit for as much as they are able to distribute. Items all around us can be found to have High-Fructose Corn Syrup in them‚ from the most basic forms of food to the most complex of pesticides. Even more disturbing is how children are being affected by High-Fructose Corn Syrup while parents and professionals
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Dictionary.com define syrup as “1. any of various thick‚ sweet liquids prepared for table use from molasses‚ glucose‚ etc.‚ water‚ and often a flavoring agent. 2. any of various preparations consisting of fruit juice‚ water‚ etc.‚ boiled with sugar 3. Pharmocology. A concentrated sugar solution that contains medication or flavoring.” This means that a syrup is a sugar and a liquid (most often water but can be fruit juice). A simple syrup is water and sugar boiled together until the sugar melts
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All Sugars are not Created Equal: The Effects of Glucose versus Fructose on the Human Body All Sugars Are Not Created Equal: The Effects of Glucose versus Fructose on the Human Body Sugar has occurred naturally in our environment since the dawn of time‚ and mankind has been enjoying its sweet taste almost that long. After all‚ glucose occurs naturally in corn‚ fructose is the natural sweetener found in fruit‚ sucrose occurs naturally in sugar beets and cane‚ and lactose is found in
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High Fructose Corn Syrup vs. Sugar: Which is Better? High Fructose Corn Syrup is commonly known as the cost-effective sweetener used in most processed foods and drink beverages‚ making it popular for production and caused it to sweep over the sweets industry. In 1970‚ High Fructose Corn Syrup only represented less than 1% of the caloric sweeteners added to food and beverages. However‚ in 1980 the sweetener market steadily increased and high fructose corn syrup quickly became the replacement for
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does not occur naturally. The term High fructose corn syrup can be defined as a common sweetener in sodas and fruit-flavored drinks. As use of high-fructose corn syrup has increased‚ so have levels of obesity and related health problems‚ leading some to wonder if there’s a connection. Research has shown that high-fructose corn syrup is chemically similar to table sugar. Controversy exists‚ however‚ about whether or not the body handles high-fructose corn syrup differently than table sugar. Therefore
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coercion has become a catalyst for serving private interests rather than public interests. One of the most outdated and destructive policy paradigms include the implementation of corn subsidies; a mechanism initially used to support struggling farmers but which now exists for corporate profit maximization. To recognize how corn subsidies has shifted from serving the public interest to private interest requires the understanding of the purpose of government intervention versus its implementation. Milton
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Ethics Brief MGMT 567 Is HFCS Really that sweet? Corn is among the most planted and produced crops in the US. According to 2013 statistics‚ the US is the largest corn producer in the world with 80 million acres of corn fields and almost $64 billion annual sales. Besides its consumption as raw food‚ industrial processing of corn yields high economic value. Among industrial uses of corn‚ High Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS) is the most controversial one from an ethics perspective. HFCS is an artificial
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