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Contrary to popular belief, in terms of health, high-fructose corn syrup is not really worse for you than sugar. It's very unhealthy, of course, but that's because it's sweet, not because of its chemical properties.
That being said, in many things (such as soda), people prefer the taste of sugar over high fructose corn syrup.
YOUS PUT IT IN YOUR FECKIN BREAD
Just checked now. The loaf of sliced bread in my pantry does not contain high fructose corn syrup.
I guarantee if I look up the biggest selling sliced bread in the US, it's got HFCS in it, and I also guarantee you'd say, yeah well nobody eats that
😂
Try making sure what you're saying is correct before confidently talking out of your ass:
This is the nutrition label for Wonder Bread, the epitome of trashy American sandwich bread. It does not contain high fructose corn syrup. What it does contain, however, is sugar. As I said, high fructose corn syrup is not worse than sugar anyway, and all bread has sugar in it because it's necessary for the yeast to rise. American-style sliced sandwich bread does tend to be sweeter than the round sort, but that's not a high fructose corn syrup problem. Even if it did have high fructose corn syrup, that literally wouldn't change anything about its health value.
Again, high fructose corn syrup is not worse than sugar. If every product in the world that uses sugar were reformulated to use an equivalent amount of high fructose corn syrup, health-wise nothing would change (but the flavour may be different). Decrying high fructose corn syrup but being okay with sugar is just ignorance of science, full stop.
If corn were as cheap everywhere else around the world as it is in America, literally every country would have processed foods containing high fructose corn syrup instead of sugar, because it is basically completely the same.
Edit: And before you make a comment talking about the length of the ingredients list, it's partially because American food labelling laws are way stricter than elsewhere in the world, requiring manufacturers to label far more ingredients and with far more detail. Sliced sandwich bread sold elsewhere is probably made of exactly the same stuff, but the manufacturer probably just isn't legally required to tell you about it.
Weird. Every single link I look at says it's one of the key ingredients
Example with photo of label
https://www.730sagestreet.com/wonder-bread-ingredients/
The recipe probably changes from time to time.
Their picture is 2023. You should probably throw your loaf out for being out of date.
I went to the grocery store literally yesterday and read the label myself. It contained no high fructose corn syrup, only sugar.
But as I was saying, they are equivalent anyway so it wouldn't matter whether it contained sugar or corn syrup
What’s bad about corn syrup is how fucking cheap it is (subsidized to hell or not). So they put it in way more things, keep us all addicted to sweet stuff and rake in profits at the same time.
Also see soy in everything (my wife is allergic so I’m biased, but it’s really nuts how many things (again, bread?) it’s in).
Contrary to popular belief, it's not that we think that corn sirup is worse, its that we KNOW yall use truckloads of it on everything <3 :)
Industry uses it. The only time most anyone uses corn syrup is for pecan pie which is admittedly gross
Dietary fructose is worse for you than sucrose. Or glucose
Process sugar is almost as bad for you as Corn syrup.
There is no such thing. Sugar is sugar, and it is exactly as bad for you as corn syrup. Sugar is either in short chains (where we call it "sugar") or in long chains (in which case it is called "starch")
molasses?
The sweetness from molasses comes from the sugar contained inside it.
I agree too much sugar in any way is bad for you.
Unrefined brown sugar undergoes less processing than white sugar, allowing it to retain some of its molasses content and natural brown color. Molasses is what you get before the refinement and crystallization with animal bones, then you get the processed white sugar. You can turn white sugar back to brown sugar by adding molasses. Neither is healthy in large amounts. Brown sugar gas slightly more minerals.
Corn syrup is easier to consume.
Disolve equal quantities of sugar and corn syrup in a drink. You will get sated of the sugar version faster than then corn syrup version.