branding trends
While grocery store brands increasingly swap out
corn syrup for sugar-and trumpet the fact-little evidence suggests any health benefit for consumers. Corn syrup has been demonized because it's highly processed and environmentally unfriendly. But sugar ain't much better.
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hfcs backlash
The beverage makers are jumping off HFCS like rats off a sinking ship these days.
Snapple has announced that it will will eliminate HFCS from its recipes. In at least once case this will actually result in
fewer calories.
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corn refiners association
CBS says that they took a look at the research cited by the marketing campaign from the Corn Refiners Association — which features "people-in-the-know" rolling their eyes and scoffing at befuddled anti-corn-syrup zealots — and realized that "three were sponsored by groups that stand to profit from research that promotes
HFCS. Two were never published so they’re funding sources are unclear. And one was sponsored by a Dutch foundation that represents the interests of the sugar industry."
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new and exciting products
We know that a lot of you get all excited over Mexican/Kosher Coca-Cola (no corn syrup), but what about you folks who prefer
Pepsi? You'll have to go to the UK, where Pepsi is launching "Pepsi Raw"—a corn syrup free, "all natural" version of the soda.
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Consumerist
hg fructose corn syrup
Pepsi is suing an Atlanta distributor for distributing Mexican Pepsi, sweetened with cane sugar instead of high fructose corn syrup, in the U.S.
