FDA rejects new name for high-fructose corn syrup

Catbird · 06-01-2012, 10:01 AM

Good ol' American marketing at its' best - when in doubt, change the name.

USA Today:

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"The Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday rejected the Corn Refiners Association's bid to rename its sweetening agent "corn sugar."

Given the sweetener's bad reputation in recent years, the association submitted an application to the agency in 2010 to have the product renamed on nutrition labels.

But the FDA said that it defines sugar as a solid, dried and crystallized food — not a syrup."

Samen · 06-01-2012, 10:05 AM

Well actually the cornies have won the battle then.

All they need to do is to find a way to crystallize it call it corn sugar and melt it back into the whatever process it is to make 70% of the so called edibles on the self of supermarkets.

Mama Alanna · 06-01-2012, 10:33 AM

I know I've run across a number of things sweetened with "evaporated cane juice" -- and what is that but sugar?

Auburn Boy · 06-01-2012, 11:03 AM

The point is, FRUCTOSE is a SUGAR.

Period.

Sugar.

Sucrose is a SUGAR.

Galactose is a SUGAR.

Lactose is a SUGAR.

Maltose is a SUGAR.

Dextrose is a SUGAR..,

The FDA is laughable. So is the "Corn Sugar" industry.

They just want to pull some wool over someone's eyes.

Catbird · 06-01-2012, 11:09 AM

Technically, evaporated cane juice is unrefined and produces Turbinado sugar. Unlike white sugar, it contains some trace minerals and vitamins, although not enough to offset the detriments of sugar. But I guess at some point the lobbyists convinced the FDA that being unrefined makes it different enough from standard, bleached sugar to be called something else. Something that doesn't include that dirty word "sugar".

It's all BS, in the same way that a loaf of bread can be labeled "Wheat Bread", with the first ingredient being "wheat flour". A lot of folks then think that it means whole wheat bread and congratulate themselves for eating healthy food. In actuality, unless the ingredient is specified as being "whole", the bread is actually plain old white bread died with caramel coloring to make it look brown like whole wheat bread.

No matter the name or the color... it's all just a bunch of

gsgs · 06-01-2012, 11:51 AM

> bad reputation in recent years

I wonder why that is.
And why only USA has it. Here in Europe most people
never have heard about it.

It was (is) one of my suspected candidates for the 1974-1976
USA-death-decline mystery

Sonny · 06-01-2012, 01:36 PM

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Originally Posted by gsgs

And why only USA has it. Here in Europe most people
never have heard about it.
snip>

That may be because the USA imposes stiff import tariffs on all imported sugar to protect the profits of the rich sugarcane growers in the Florida Everglades.

So bad is the sugar tariff that candy maker, Hershey's Chocolate, moved their operations to Mexico just to have access to cheaper cane sugar rather than use HFCS or pay the tariff.

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gsgs · 06-01-2012, 05:40 PM

HFCS has B2,B6,phosphorus,zinc
could any of these prevent elderly mortal heart-attacks ?
(or reduce inflammations, that seem to generally increase the risk of
heart-deaths in the elderly)

HFCS:
Water 24 g
Riboflavin (vit. B2) 0.019 mg (2%)
Niacin (vit. B3) 0 mg (0%)
Pantothenic acid (B5) 0.011 mg (0%)
Vitamin B6 0.024 mg (2%)
Folate (vit. B9) 0 μg (0%)
Vitamin C 0 mg (0%)
Calcium 6 mg (1%)
Iron 0.42 mg (3%)
Magnesium 2 mg (1%)
Phosphorus 4 mg (1%)
Potassium 0 mg (0%)
Sodium 2 mg (0%)
Zinc 0.22 mg (2%

Sugar_cane:
Nutritional value per serving
Serving size 28.35 grams
Energy 111.13 kJ (26.56 kcal)
Carbohydrates 27.51 g
- Sugars 26.98 g
Protein 0.27 g
Calcium 11.23 mg (1%)
Iron 0.37 mg (3%)
Potassium 41.96 mg (1%)
Sodium 17.01 mg (1%)
Nutrient Information from ESHA Research
Percentages are

Samen · 06-01-2012, 05:43 PM

Ehh NO.

Feather · 06-01-2012, 10:46 PM

Could someone please tell me the difference between HFCS and beet sugar? Isn't it all sugar? I know they told me to keep anything with ose on the end away from my oldest.

Auburn Boy · 06-02-2012, 12:08 AM

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Originally Posted by Feather

Could someone please tell me the difference between HFCS and beet sugar? Isn't it all sugar? I know they told me to keep anything with ose on the end away from my oldest.

All "sugars" (chemically speaking) have -ose on the end.

See my previous post.

HFCS is FRUCTOSE.

Beet sugar is SUCROSE. (So is 'Cane Sugar.')

Feather · 06-02-2012, 05:00 PM

Thank you AB. When DS#1 was little the dr said he could have fructose only. Preferably from fruit. Anything else had him running 20 hrs a day.

Samen · 06-02-2012, 05:57 PM

high-fructose corn syrup is a bit different than what was or is commonly known as fructose.

Stay OFF it.

Sonny · 06-02-2012, 09:10 PM

You Tube

gsgs · 06-03-2012, 04:01 AM

they add vitamins and minerals to it in USA ?

Sonny · 06-03-2012, 04:43 AM

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Originally Posted by gsgs

they add vitamins and minerals to it in USA ?

GatorAid does, and electrolytes too.

~

gsgs · 06-03-2012, 05:39 AM

why can't they make these crystals or syrup from other food
to increase duration

cereals/bread,potatoes,milkpowder

what makes a food crystallable
soluble in water ? bier,liquid bread

mix with sugar ... and then crystallize

why do they pack it in paper ? --> moisture comes in

Feather · 06-03-2012, 08:20 AM

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Originally Posted by Samen

high-fructose corn syrup is a bit different than what was or is commonly known as fructose.

Stay OFF it.

I do and he did back then. The dr said frutose in the natural form. The boys got fruit juice with no added sweetners and NO Koolaid. After DS#1 got older and took over feeding himse;lf he decided to go on a Mountain Dew diet. The sugar reved him up, but the caffine calmed him down. I cheated when he was younger, he had Diet Pepsi to drink with his supper so he would go to sleep before midnight and sleep all night instead of bing up at 4 am to play.

Auburn Boy · 06-03-2012, 02:24 PM

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Originally Posted by Samen

high-fructose corn syrup is a bit different than what was or is commonly known as fructose.

Stay OFF it.

Yeah, it's a "bit different."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-fructose_corn_syrup

But just saying "stay off it" doesn't quite cut it.

Got any reliable reason to "stay off it?"

Auburn Boy · 06-03-2012, 02:30 PM

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Originally Posted by gsgs

they add vitamins and minerals to it in USA ?

Doubtful. I can't find anything with google on "vitamin fortified HFCS."

I did find this:

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Fructose is hard for the body to metabolize, converts to fat more than other sugars, and contains no enzymes, vitamins, or minerals.

Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/026638_me...#ixzz1wkxpkpEJ

But that statement is unsubstantiated in the publication.

Where-ever did you find that list of nutrients attributed to HFCS???

Auburn Boy · 06-03-2012, 02:37 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by gsgs

why can't they make these crystals or syrup from other food
to increase duration

cereals/bread,potatoes,milkpowder

what makes a food crystallable
soluble in water ? bier,liquid bread

mix with sugar ... and then crystallize

why do they pack it in paper ? --> moisture comes in

Not everything crystalizes..,

It is usually "pure" compounds that can crystalize, and even then they have to have an appropriate molecular structure.

Things like bread and fruit are more mixtures, admixtures than a chemical compound.

Packing in paper? It's conventional, convenient, has been used for centuries.

Plastic is popular too.

Kinderfragen redux..,