When I started to work a night shift at a bakery after cooking school, I was humbled by the odd hours. And I was equally humbled by corn syrup. At the grocery store, you’ll find two types of corn ...

Corn is a healthy whole food, but it’s also the starting point for many highly processed byproducts. Among the most common (and most often demonized): high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS). This liquid ...

A farmer harvests corn along southbound Interstate 35 in Iowa on Nov. 23, 2024. (Photo by Cami Koons/Iowa Capital Dispatch) Corn, the nation’s largest crop, is produced for a variety of uses, ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Though some have blamed the U.S. obesity problem on the corn syrup ubiquitous in processed foods, a new study casts some doubt on this idea. Researchers found that ...

Trivia quiz: What do Japan’s Fermentation Research Institute, Secretary of Agriculture Earl “Rusty” Butz and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan have in common? Answer: Each, in their way, helped ...

High fructose corn syrup — an ingredient in everything from soda to ketchup to pickles — has such a bad reputation that the Corn Refiners Association (CRA) wants to change the name of the popular ...

High-fructose corn syrup is a liquid sweetener made from corn. When corn starch is broken down into individual molecules, it becomes corn syrup, which is 100 percent glucose, a simple sugar. Special ...

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