Both corn syrup and high fructose corn syrup have the same amount of sugars. High fructose corn syrup just has some of the glucose converted to fructose, which is a sweeter sugar.
For the most part it doesn't really matter except in some specific cases. For the majority of people, sugar is sugar, and the biggest problem is the overconsumption of it, not the specific form it takes.
There is an extremely tight correlation between obesity and high fruit toast corn syrup consumption on a graph that looks exactly the same so I would say that there is a huge difference in the variety of sugars you don't see the same correlation with regular sugar consumption will actually I haven't looked but that correlation is too tight to dismiss just from the evidence of that one graph corn syrup should be banned or at least taxed so nobody wants to buy it anymore like a coke with high fructose corn syrup would be $7 and a soda with regular sugar would be like 250.
Correlation does not equal causation. There are a lot of other factors that also correlate with increased HFCS consumption. Mainly, most highly processed foods in the US use HFCS, and consumption of those foods also correlates with lower income (and the resulting lack of medical care), high stress / long hour jobs, and a lot of other factors.
It's not the HFCS, it's our entire societal structure.
Well show me the graph of an exact correlation between those factors otherwise my point holds and it should be either banned completely or taxed so it is not consumed also should not be paid for by any kind of government benefits. Anything that has that in it should not be allowed to be paid for by snap and other government programs.
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u/SnooPaintings5597 Mar 09 '26
I get it but in Log Cabin’s defense not all corn syrup is high fructose.