high fructose corn syrup

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high + fructose + corn syrup

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high fructose corn syrup (usually uncountable, plural high fructose corn syrups)

  1. (chiefly US) Any of many corn syrups that has undergone an enzymatic processing to convert some of its glucose into fructose to produce a desired sweetness
    • 2005, Industrial Biotechnology‎:
      In 1982, high fructose corn syrup production amounted to 8.4 billion pounds with a value well in excess of one billion dollars.
    • 2005, Eat play and be healthy‎:
      Let's take a look at the sweetener used in most soft drinks, high fructose corn syrup.
    • 2006, Sugar Shock!‎:
      Sucrose is just as bad as high fructose corn syrup," maintains Dr. Ludwig, an associate professor of pediatrics at Harvard
    • 2009, Food rules‎:
      Not because high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS) is any worse for you than sugar, but because it is, like many of the other unfamiliar ingredients in packaged

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