EMILY FREDRIX | 09/14/10 10:34 AM | AP
A television advertisement from the Corn Refiners Association, says it want to adopt 'corn sugar' as a new name. This will take at least two years for the name cahnge to work its way through the government.
Archer Daniels Midland Inc. lobbied the Nixon administration to raise tariffs on foreign sugar to make the price of HFCS attractive. HFCS is produced by a process that is similar to the one used for Ethanol.
In the U.S., HFCS is among the sweeteners that have primarily replaced sucrose (table sugar), due to governmental subsidies of U.S. corn and an import tariff on foreign sugar (Wikipedia).
More research is needed on HFCS according to the AMA. Childhood obesity greatly increased after HFCS was approved for consumption.
Karo (R) syrup is primarily dextrose and is called corn syrup.
In Canada in Canada HFCS is produced differently. Corn syrups undergo enzymatic processing to convert its glucose into fructose. This is then been mixed with pure corn syrup (100% glucose) to produce a desired sweetness.
This is how HFCS is produced in the US according to Wikipedia:
High-fructose corn syrup is produced by milling corn to produce corn starch, then processing that starch to yield corn syrup, which is almost entirely glucose, and then adding enzymes that change most of the glucose into fructose.
The resulting syrup (after enzyme conversion) contains approximately 90% fructose and is HFCS 90. To make the other common forms of HFCS (HFCS 55 and HFCS 42) the HFCS 90 is mixed with 100% glucose corn syrup in the appropriate ratios to form the desired HFCS.
The enzyme process that changes the 100% glucose corn syrup into HFCS 90 is as follows:
source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/09/14/corn-sugar-high-fructose-corn-syrup_n_716007.html
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A television advertisement from the Corn Refiners Association, says it want to adopt 'corn sugar' as a new name. This will take at least two years for the name cahnge to work its way through the government.
Archer Daniels Midland Inc. lobbied the Nixon administration to raise tariffs on foreign sugar to make the price of HFCS attractive. HFCS is produced by a process that is similar to the one used for Ethanol.
In the U.S., HFCS is among the sweeteners that have primarily replaced sucrose (table sugar), due to governmental subsidies of U.S. corn and an import tariff on foreign sugar (Wikipedia).
More research is needed on HFCS according to the AMA. Childhood obesity greatly increased after HFCS was approved for consumption.
Karo (R) syrup is primarily dextrose and is called corn syrup.
In Canada in Canada HFCS is produced differently. Corn syrups undergo enzymatic processing to convert its glucose into fructose. This is then been mixed with pure corn syrup (100% glucose) to produce a desired sweetness.
This is how HFCS is produced in the US according to Wikipedia:
High-fructose corn syrup is produced by milling corn to produce corn starch, then processing that starch to yield corn syrup, which is almost entirely glucose, and then adding enzymes that change most of the glucose into fructose.
The resulting syrup (after enzyme conversion) contains approximately 90% fructose and is HFCS 90. To make the other common forms of HFCS (HFCS 55 and HFCS 42) the HFCS 90 is mixed with 100% glucose corn syrup in the appropriate ratios to form the desired HFCS.
The enzyme process that changes the 100% glucose corn syrup into HFCS 90 is as follows:
- Cornstarch is treated with alpha-amylase to produce shorter chains of sugars called oligosaccharides.
- Glucoamylase - which is produced by Aspergillus, a fungus, in a fermentation vat — breaks the sugar chains down even further to yield the simple sugar glucose.
- Xylose isomerase (aka glucose isomerase) converts glucose to a mixture of about 42% fructose and 50–52% glucose with some other sugars mixed in.
- Numerous filtration, ion-exchange and evaporation steps are also part of the overall process.
source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/09/14/corn-sugar-high-fructose-corn-syrup_n_716007.html
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2 comments:
No need for a name change. They should stop their production. I've read lots of article telling high fructose corn syrup is bad to our health. look at this article and be well informed - http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2010/01/02/highfructose-corn-syrup-alters-human-metabolism.aspx
Rightardia agrees. The industry wants a name change because it know this bad product isn't selling.
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