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Alternative forms

• HFCS
• high-fructose corn syrup

Noun

high fructose corn syrup ‎(usually uncountable, plural high fructose corn syrups)

1. (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

   I heard that high fructose corn syrup is making people fatter than real sugar because it causes the brain to not realize it is full thus causing gluttony and obesity, chemistry is sick like that dude!

Synonyms

• HFCS, isoglucose, glucose-fructose syrup / glucose/fructose, maize syrup, high-fructose maize syrup, corn sugar

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