Monday, March 1, 2010

just say no.........but it's so good!

"Why is High Fructose Corn Syrup in Foods?

High fructose corn syrup provides many consumer benefits
and often plays a key role in the integrity of food and
beverage products that has little to do with sweetening.

High Fructose Corn Syrup Metabolism

High fructose corn syrup is simply a kind of corn sugar.
It has the same number of calories as sugar and is handled
similarly by the body."


http://www.sweetsurprise.com/

Maybe they'll just start calling it sugar so we don't have to get confused anymore

1 comment:

Jill said...

oh, if only our country would pull an Australia and ban the stuff. Here's an interesting article.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/26/AR2009012601831.html