High-Fructose Corn Syrup

[mousme]

Several of my friends have gone on household-jihad against High-Fructose Corn Syrup.

Can anyone explain to me why this is the new Antichrist? What's the deal, here?

Thanks!

:::Edited to fix a nomenclature malfunction:::

Comments

*Takes out soap box and stands on it* (Sorry)

[ashforestwalker.livejournal.com]

I think the problem is that its being put in everything as well as sugar to sweeten the (food/drink) so even if you have only a few chips or half a PJ samwich + half a pop drink you get a meal and a half of empty calories.

If you think about it, what's so wrong with the (food/drink) in question if you need to sweeten it with two or three different kinds of sweeteners.

I had a fit last year when I realized after reading the ingredients that the peanut butter I was eating ( and feeding my son) started with sugar, then icing sugar, then corn syrup, finally we hit peanuts then stuff I have no idea how to say.

More and more I'm seeing this. If its called say Strawberry jam the first thing on the list should be, well strawberries.

I feel like Indiana Jones sometimes, I'm in the stores looking for food that's not drowned it sweeteners.


*gets off soap box* (sorry again)

HRH.