- Author: Jeannette E. Warnert
Published on: May 7, 2010
Consumers are confused about their sweeteners. Media have reported that high fructose corn syrup is no different from cane sugar, and they have publicized studies that show the corn-based sweetener is more harmful to good health than sweetener extracted from sugar cane and sugar beets. Connecttristates.com tried to sort out the facts:
- Both sweeteners are made up of roughly equal amounts of glucose and fructose. (New York University nutrition professor quoted in the New York Times.)
- Chemically speaking, high fructose corn syrup is just sugar with an image problem. (From a CBS News report.)
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