WHOOPS: 'Corn Sugar' Already Taken, FDA Definition Excludes HFCS

Marion Nestle at the Atlantic:

Thanks to alert reader Glen for pointing out that the FDA already has a regulation for Corn Sugar in the Code of Federal Regulations, under food substances "Generally Recognized as Safe" (GRAS). ...

The Corn Refiners have just petitioned the FDA to be allowed to use the name "corn sugar" to apply to both glucose/dextrose and high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS). But the existing definition seems to exclude HFCS. While HFCS is about half glucose, it is also about half fructose, and its manufacture from corn starch requires one more enzyme.

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Comments

[zombywulf]

03:48 AM on 09/29/2010

Extra!!! It will now be called "Frankin Sugar".

[AmyRenee]

03:55 AM on 09/23/2010

It wont matter the FDA is still run by Monsanto. They will allow the petition and HFCS will have it's new name and continue with the promotion. And ppl wonder why it is said that "Money is the root of all evil". Capitalism does not work!!! Everything is sold to the highest bidder, regardless how it will affect our well being in the future.

[cloudjungle]

11:04 AM on 09/22/2010

They can call it what they want. I look at the label of everything I buy. First I buy few precessed foods but those I do buy do not have HFCS or sugar for that matter. Luckily the fruit I eat is in it's natural state and there is no need for HFCS or sugar in most any other foods. The US is addicted to sweet for some reason.

[newtom]

10:50 AM on 09/22/2010

Yet they're still running the new ads. I saw one last night.

[Simondj]

04:12 PM on 09/22/2010

Why let a little thing like a definition get in the way of a rebranding ad campaign?

[booker52]

09:55 AM on 09/22/2010

HFCS is bad for everyone and should be banned.

[areachanging]

03:46 AM on 09/22/2010

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[beerent]

05:18 PM on 09/22/2010

Yellow Quick Pudge

[areachanging]

05:20 PM on 09/22/2010

Good one

[areachanging]

01:51 AM on 09/23/2010

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[beerent]

05:21 PM on 09/22/2010

Money Honey

[areachanging]

06:21 PM on 09/22/2010

Maria Bartiromo?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/29/maria-bartiromo-sours-on_n_517655.html

[areachanging]

05:13 PM on 09/23/2010

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[areachanging]

02:45 AM on 09/22/2010

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[areachanging]

02:08 AM on 09/22/2010

Corny Ooze

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[sense oar sheep]

01:53 AM on 09/22/2010

npr had a skit about geem k0rn

"what the problem with geem k0rn?"

"i dunno"

Do Not support NPR

you're benevolent corporations do it for you

[sense oar sheep]

02:17 AM on 09/22/2010

g3n3t1tclly modified k0rn

thank you, m0$@nt0

[Last Gasp]

01:33 AM on 09/22/2010

of course, this is not the reason they should be refused. HFCS is worse for people than natural sugar and should not be relabeled but banned; it exists only for profit and hurts people's health.

[beerent]

05:16 PM on 09/22/2010

Is there research on this claim. I have no doubt that excess sugar can lead to health problems. But I'm curious where people are getting their information about the ills of HFCS.

[kareemachan]

01:00 PM on 09/23/2010

Google it. There have been studies done on HFCS and its links to obesity, diabetes, and liver damage.

[mudshark12]

12:12 AM on 09/22/2010

My bad, liquid obesity was already taken.

[mudshark12]

12:11 AM on 09/22/2010

One of the very few examples of the FDA having the right idea. Now if they would make the food industry use about 10% of the HFCS used today more people might become healthy and live longer.

Perhaps instead of Corn Sugar they will call it "liquid obesity". Then again, if pigs had wings they would fly,,,

[beerent]

05:24 PM on 09/22/2010

Will need to stop subsidizing the corn growers.

[areachanging]

10:30 PM on 09/21/2010

How about, Liquid Money Maker?

[areachanging]

09:59 PM on 09/21/2010

Forgive me if somebody already said this... but how about Corn Squeezins' ?

[revko]

11:54 PM on 09/21/2010

Corn Nectar

[areachanging]

01:38 AM on 09/22/2010

Hey! We're trying to be funny, here. That's actually... well... good.

[areachanging]

01:39 AM on 09/22/2010

Well, good if you want to make something bad, sound good.

[Neets101]

07:13 PM on 09/21/2010

How about "Nappy Time Happy Sugar Corn"?

Feed it to the kiddies watch them swing off the curtains for ten minutes or so then slip into the vegetate coma part that comes later...