High Fructose Corn Syrup To Be Renamed Corn Sugar Due To Bad Publicity and a Savvy Pu

With an increasingly wise public tuned-in to the dangers of toxins in foods, the Corn Refiners Association has petitioned the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) asking it to allow the term ‘corn sugar’ as an alternative label declaration for high fructose corn syrup (HFCS).

In November last year, Ajinomoto Group rebranded its aspartame ingredient ‘AminoSweet’, saying the time was right to “remind people that aspartame is made from two amino acids and brings absolutely nothing new to the diet, just sweetness without the calories”.

Ajinmoto Group, producers of dangerous food ingredients such as MSG and other preservatives, have been victim to greater percentages of consumers catching on their toxic concoctions. The name change to AminoSweet by Ajinmoto is a desperate attempt to try and erase the history of fraud and deception now exposed in hundreds of alternative and mainstream publications.

HFCS is meeting a similar fate. It has suffered from a spate of bad publicity in recent years, and food and beverage manufacturers have been increasingly switching it out of their products in preference for beet or cane sugar (sucrose).

The Corn Refiners Association (CRA) has said that the reason it filed a petition with the FDA was to be clear with consumers about what HFCS is: A sugar made from corn. The CRA – a trade association that represents the corn refining industry in the United States – has repeatedly stressed that HFCS is not high in fructose, even though that is what the name may suggest. In fact it contains proportions of fructose and glucose that are similar to sucrose.

President of the Corn Refiners Association Audrae Erickson told FoodNavigator-USA.com: “The words ‘high fructose corn syrup’ have caused confusion…This is all about consumer clarity on the ingredient label.”

She said that in much the same way that there is beet sugar and cane sugar, sugar from corn should be called ‘corn sugar’ in order to give it a name that is easily understood.

So even though HFCS causes insulin resistance, diabetes, hypertension, increased weight gain, and not to mention manufactured from genetically modified corn, it seems that the CRA feels that changing the name will somehow create “clarity” for consumers.

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