high fructose corn syrup
See also: high-fructose corn syrup
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Etymology
high + fructose + corn syrup
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Noun
high fructose corn syrup (usually uncountable, plural high fructose corn syrups)
- (chiefly US) Any of many corn syrups that has undergone an enzymatic processing to convert some of its glucose into fructose to produce a desired sweetness
- 2005 Industrial Biotechnology
- In 1982, high fructose corn syrup production amounted to 8.4 billion pounds with a value well in excess of one billion dollars.
- 2005 Eat play and be healthy
- Let's take a look at the sweetener used in most soft drinks, high fructose corn syrup.
- 2006 Sugar Shock!
- Sucrose is just as bad as high fructose corn syrup," maintains Dr. Ludwig, an associate professor of pediatrics at Harvard
- 2009 Food rules
- Not because high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS) is any worse for you than sugar, but because it is, like many of the other unfamiliar ingredients in packaged
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corn-based sweet syrup
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