[shibumi]

Both fructose and glucose are part of a balanced diet when consumed along with the other basic food groups. These include (but are not necessarily limited to) Sugars, fat, alcohol, caffeine and salt.

I’m sitting down to my nutritious breakfast of SPAM, eggs, bacon, SPAM, Twinkies, coffee, SPAM and SPAM, followed by a jelly donut, cream filled Bismark, SPAM and beer. Instead of the traditional orange juice, I’m having High Fructose Corn Syrup with artificial orange flavoring.

And SPAM.

[barb-tex]

Scouts Out!
Food police Ho!
barbra ann

[j.argese]

My issue with corn syrup, as with most other things is not flavor related, it's texture related. Soda, soda pop, pop, phosphate, as you will, sweetened with cane sugar is bright and sharp on the tongue. Corn syrup? Thick and dull.

As an aside, CANOLA oil should be BANNED!!! Transfat Nazis should be rounded up and force fed via suppository for that CANOLA abomination!

[Rokurota]

Gilbert Ross gets it...too many scientists trying to grab a headline. It’s bad science plain and simple.

[Future Useless Eater]

Brought to us by the manufacturers and strongest supporters of HFCS. I'm sure that wouldn't be biased. < /sarc>

This is the first I've heard of fructose damaging the pancreas. The stronger evidence is that in the larger quantities it is consumed today, it poisons our livers, causing fatty liver disease and metabolic syndrome (obesity, diabetes, heart disease and more)

>>> ...high fructose corn syrup contain roughly 50 percent glucose and 50 percent fructose

And they fudged those facts slightly in their article... HFCS contains 22% more fructose than glucose. 55/45 = 1.22      

Americans eat over a hundred pounds of sugar a year now, plus almost everything in the store is sweetened with that crap HFCS.

[pnh102]

Ahhh, the pro-high fructose corn syrup interests come out to denounce a study saying that high fructose corn syrup is bad.

My family and I have been doing everything we can to cut that literal devil piss out of our diets. Maple syrup for pancakes, Coca Cola from Mexico when we drink it, and only real cane sugar in other things. Better taste, and IMO, much better health.

[secondamendmentkid]

I would suspect that HFCS has become predominant because it is cheaper in either the materials or mfg. process. You will likely find that sugar is a better alternative, unless there are specific health reasons to the contrary.

The healthiest and most versatile sweetener is honey. Why do you think we call our wives/hubbies “Honey”?
http://www.survival-spot.com/survival-blog/benefits-of-honey/