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Originally Posted by lastcardcharlie
I've been reading about corn syrup. Good hypothesis IMO.
It is fructose (sugar) and glucose (sugar). It doesn't have any magical properties other than being slightly sweeter than sucrose (sugar). If you eat corn, you turn it into fructose and glucose.
There are upwards of 38 people who actively avoid high fructose corn syrup while still eating sucrose (and strangely fruit - a major source of fructose), but the economic impact on companies that use the syrup is even more limited than you'd think.