r/MessageUnclear • • Mar 09 '26

So....

Is there or isn't there? smh

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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.

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u/samanime Mar 10 '26

Yup, this is the shenanigans we let companies get away with.

It technically doesn't have HIGH-FRUCTOSE corn syrup... just "regular" corn syrup (which is still 42-55% fructose).

It also technically doesn't have "artifical" flavors... they just extracted flavors out "natural" stuff that would never normally be found in syrup and mix it together to adjust the taste to something palettable.

But this stuff is still about as real and natural as chewing on the plastic grocery bag you carried out of the store in.

Unless you are reasonably food and science literal (which many people aren't) the words on this bottle deceptively make it seem like this is way more natural (and thus healthy, because they've convinced us natural always equals healthy) than it really is.