King Corn - Corn Syrup Commercial Spoof

[UncutTuts]

stay away from high fructose corn syrup not good for you at all sugar diabetes is what it causes only regular sugar hfcs will you give it and non alcoholic fatty liver disease

[master777999]

For some reason I can't really figure out, after seeing that old guy at the end for those 10 seconds, he is now one of my favorite people of all time.

[Gades117]

HAHAAAWAAAWAHAHAAAAA Anyone that tries to defend this crap go to GOOGLE then type in FRUCTOSE CANCER then see what shows up =D

[AWAKEANDPISSED]

for the first time in my life the most crowed area of the grocery store is the fruit and vege department.... PEOPLE ARE WAKING UP.... i love it....

[gsus7125]

Great video.

[harleykman]

@Yuffie3982 Your mother's generation only consumers 1/3rd as much sugar (or hfcs) as our generation does

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[HunterMann]

f.u.c.k. corn sugar too!

[webhat]

This isn't a spoof, it's real. Smoking is nice, never did me any harm.

[welhungjohnson]

the creepy old man at the end was HILLARIOUS!!!!!!!

This is like Simpsons quality stuff! lol at least back when the simpsons was still good

[harleykman]

You guys act as if sugar is a healthier alternative

- it isn't

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Watch the video SUGAR the Bitter Truth about how sugar is broken down into fatty acids (by the liver) and thereby contributes to the obesity epidemic

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[MBTEVENTS]

These ads play on the Food Network. One played during Iron Chef, as if any of these top chefs would use this stuff!

[JoseTwitterFan]

Tell the American Beverage Association to return to their sugar roots they abandoned long ago and to leave our waistlines alone!

[RaynorX]

LOL

[Gr8stuffis]

Yah.. but we are now talking about GMO SUGAR BEET SUGAR since March 2010... When it comes to disease causing ingredients. you ain't seen nuttin yet !!!

[bswoosah]

sucrose = sugar = HFCS = 1 fructose + 1 glucose

glucose = ok

fructose = bad

[slmpleanatomy]

@bswoosah Actually HFCS is 55% fructose and 45% glucose so it is not a 50:50 relationship. Just a little technicality.

[bswoosah]

sucrose = sugar = HFCS = 1 fructose + 1 glucose

glucose = ok

fructose = bad

[ToxNX]

Mixtures and molecules are *not* the same things. 6rammstein's statement is like saying that mixtures of oxygen and hydrogen gas are the same thing as water, just because water molecules are made from oxygen and hydrogen!

[ToxNX]

6rammstein is obviously a plant from the corn industry (or some related industry). That bullshit about high fructose corn syrup and sucrose being the same thing is unscientific propaganda.

Sucrose is its own molecule put together from a molecule of glucose and a molecule of fructose through a chemical reaction. HFCS is a mixture of separate molecules of fructose and glucose in water.

[6rammstein]

@ToxNX 90% of the sucrose in soft drinks made with sucrose (Moutain Dew Throwback) hydrolyzes, or splits, into fructose and glucose (because of the acidity of the soda) by the time it reaches the consumer. 90% of said sucrose would then be HFCS (mixture of fructose, glucose and water yes). FRUCTOSE is the molecule that causes liver scaring due to the fact it must be metabolized in the liver.

[slmpleanatomy]

@6rammstein Sucrose does NOT become HFCS due to "acid" breaking it down. Sugars are hydrolyzed by ENZYMES (sucrase breaks sucrose down).

Also, sucrose is 50% fructose and 50% glucose. HFCS is 55% fructose and 45% glucose. This is an important difference. Lastly, fructose does not cause scarring of the liver. It encourages lipogenesis which damages the liver.

[6rammstein]

@slmpleanatomy it doesn't need enzymes to hydrolyze, enzymes are Catalysts they don't make chemical reactions happen they just increase the rates of reactions. It does hydrolyzes in the soda. I've already noted myself that HFCS is 55% fructose, 45% glucose, but thank you for reiterating. The difference is not that important, at all. I don't care how the liver is damaged, the point is fructose must be metabolized there, it causes damage to the liver, and it is in both HFCS and sucrose.

[6rammstein]

@slmpleanatomy Even the remaining sucrose that isn't hydrolyzed in the bottle is hydrolyzed in the stomach. End result is essentially the same, with a small difference. for example a soda made with sugar(39-40 grams) might contain 20 grams of fructose, the same amount of soda made with HFCS(39-40 grams) would have about 22 grams of fructose.

[6rammstein]

@ToxNX Also I said sucrose and HFCS are ESSENTIALLY the same thing. They have the same calorie content, sucrose is hydrolyzed in the stomach into fructose and glucose, they essentially the same thing, only being split apart, and their sweetness matches

[6rammstein]

@ToxNX I'm a plant??? lol

[6rammstein]

This is the same as when people realized there's sulfuric acid in soda but didn't stop to think "Isn't there Hydrochloric acid(much stronger and highly corrosive) in my stomach right now? Always being produced by my own stomach? Your stomach is lined with phlegm to protect it from the digestive fluids it uses that include Hydrochloric acid, which by the way is used as a toilet bowl cleaner. It's far worse than anything in soda.

[harleykman]

BLAME GOVERNMENT

They raised the price on sugar, which forced food companies to switch to a cheaper substitute. They tried corn syrup (glucose) but it wasn't sweet enough, so they added fructose to it. Hence High Fructose CS.

It's the fructose that is the poison (almost as bad as ethanol).

The government needs to drop the protective tariffs from sugar, so the price will drop to its natural level, and sugar can be used in food again. Just like the rest of the world.

[radicalaceshasbrin]

no im not gonna blame government he government is here to protect us gtfo

[nickr753]

@harleykman First of all, the rest of the world pays about twice as much for their food supply as Americans do (oh, and about a third as much on healthcare). Sugar -is- expensive, so much so that it's not cost-effective to add it to things like tomato sauce and a loaf of bread. (Why would you anyway?)

Fructose isn't a poison--you'll find it in a banana. I do agree with you about blaming government anyhow--they're the only reason corn is profitable to grow in the first place.-subsidies, Monsanto

[6rammstein]

@nickr753 corn is grown here, sugar is grown elsewhere. buy our own corn better for economy and more jobs, buy their sugar good for them bad for us. we have tariffs for a reason. i still dont understand the government allowing american companies to employ people people in other countries (outsourcing) to make stuff for us when we could do it here and give people jobs.

[nickr753]

@6rammstein Yes, buying our own products is better for our economy, but corn and sugar are two different things. Anyway, while we're in the process of going local, why not go whole hog--get rid of the gigantic national food production corporations and buy from local farms exclusively. That practically removes corn from the picture.

[harleykman]

@nickr753 Fructose is a poison - it's almost as bad as the poisonous alcohol in your beer, and follows a somewhat similar process of digestion (by the liver)

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As for food costs, I can not speak to that, but American Sugar has an inflated value due to protective tariffs (price-fixing). Sugar in other countries is cheap, and it's why you'll find sugar in Foreign Coca-cola instead of corn syrup

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[fishfoodgeneral]

@harleykman Yes sugar is more expensive in part due to tariffs, no fructose is not a poison. Fructose is form of sugar that can be broken down from various fruits and other sources. It isn't inherently "bad." In certain processed forms, however, it can be harmful, and in certain amounts it can (like sugar) be harmful . I'll also say that it's not just that we've replaced sugar with HFCS, obesity has increased because the volume of sugar in our foods has increased in addition to the replacements.

[harleykman]

@fishfoodgeneral When you eat fructose, the liver converts it to fat. That's why it is bad. That's why americans are fatter than they've ever been

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So even if you replaced all the High Fructose corn syrup with Sugar, you'd still not solve the problem. Sugar contains fructose

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[fishfoodgeneral]

@harleykman It's not inherently bad because our liver converts it to fat. Our bodies likely have that feature because humans initially didn't have the ample food sources we do today, therefore necessitating the conversion of not immediately usable sugar to fat, allowing for long term energy storage; it's the volume of sugar we consume. I've read conflicting reports (American Journal of Clinical Nutrition) about HFCS. Corn refiners are really just dumping corn via HFCS, courtesy govt. policies.

[SailorVegan]

That was cute XD

[101101101777]

Poor Tobacco, a good not so addictive plant marred by big corps use of Formaldehyde, Ammonia and many other poisons

[6rammstein]

not so addictive?????

[Noel08Blueheart]

Tobacco is not addictive. It's the nicantine that gets you hooked.

[6rammstein]

no shit.

[Noel08Blueheart]

Really? You obviously didn't know it...

[101101101777]

@6rammstein

imo the addiction lies in the mind, psychological addiction. That is if you were smoking tobacco grown yourself. Cigarette tobacco is a different story thanks to those who commercially grow/process it, aswell as cigarette papers. Only recently have Cig and junk food companies split to avoid the rising court costs against the Cig corps. Phillip-Morris tobacco+Kraft foods+processed addictive additives like refined sugar=One big company screwing people over.

[6rammstein]

@101101101777 It's true that a lot of it is psychological just like being addicted to gambling or video games, but nicotine has been proven to be physical addictive. Your brain adjusts to having that chemical and when it doesn't get it you feel bad/off and feel strong cravings to do it more. Just like cocaine or heroin but on a much smaller scale but more noticeable than caffeine addiction.

[6rammstein]

@101101101777 And yes the corps process it in a way that will keep you buying them and so do corps that make junk food but that doesn't change the fact that nicotine, a chemical naturally found in the plant and not added, is addictive.

[passwordrequired]

@101101101777 Actually, Nicotine is naturally occurring, hence the plant name Nicotinia Tabacum. Even without the additives it will kill ya

[cartic]

i just finished watching King Korn on Netflix Instant Watch.. these guys rock! Love the dude at the end!! HFCS = FAIL

[hnd4me]

lol love it! hfcs = FAIL.

[katieshallstalkyou]

hahahahah it CRACKs you up hhahahaha

[CrimsonEmpire]

Great spoof. cracked me up and really gets the point across

[sothathappened]

lawls!

[viralarchitect]

I suppose the people who don't eat HFCS don't get diabetes, just like how people who don't smoke don't get lung cancer.

Oh wait...

[corneliuscomedy]

The only people who wouldn't care for your post are mindless conformist DRONES. The truth tellers are the minority, it seems...

[dogspawn]

Fake

[suotamosa]

@Dogspawn: your comment makes no sense

great vid, i like the subject comparison

[dogspawn]

Racist

[dairy2019]

Poor dogspawn :( his mother was a bitch who ate HFCS and died right after birth to leave him with his hick father...we sympathize for your retardation (inhibited growth of the prefrontal cortex)

[dogspawn]

Why do you hate jews?

[dairy2019]

So in Judaical culture either bitch or hick are derogatory terms? If so I don't mean to offend, just to point out your stupidity of thinking or impediment of looking up information before making a special comment :D

so since you claim to be a dog spawn maybe your fake? or just ignorant, what ever the case maybe you should probably get an education and start thinking for yourself you lackey!! but still try and smile :) it's ok

[dogspawn]

So you hate black people as well as jews.

[Theevagabond]

Nothing is funnier when you watch a Youtube clip and the first comment you see seems totally unrelated and you go "WTF?"

[dogspawn]

Oh look another racist is here to join the lynching

[impalapez]

LMAO!!!aWESOME spoof!! There is over 35 years of hard empirical evidence, in addition to this latest study, showing refined man-made fructose like HFCS metabolizes to triglycerides and adipose tissue, not blood glucose.

[lepusforamen]

Contact the President of the CRA and share your thoughts regarding HFCS

Audrae Erickson

President

Corn Refiners Association

1701 Pennsylvania Ave., NW

Washington, DC 20006-5806

Phone: 202-331-1634

Fax: 202-331-2054

pressinquiry@corn(.)org

[orbfile]

super....awesome....... Long live the small farmers!!!

[blamy10]

I LOVE it!!

[logtype47]

I got an idea !!!

We should all pop some Pre-Columbian organic popcorn and sit back and watch the Corn Refiners Association collapse on itself due to it's sheer stupidity and hubris for pushing those "corn syrup isn't bad for you campaigns.

[logtype47]

Great spoof. The Corn Refiners Association and their industry cohorts are in deep trouble. The ad campaign that they spearheaded will only serve to hasten their demise.

I'm glad to report that the CRA sponsored commercials have served a great function by accelerating the public's curiosity on the topic of high fructose corn syrup. Concerned citizens are researching this matter for themselves and are learning that HFCS is dangerous.

[6rammstein]

@logtype47 HFCS is a mixture of fructose and glucose. Both are found in many fruits that we eat. There is nothing wrong with them, there are natural organic compounds called simple sugars. There is nothing dangerous about HFCS, it's just an acronym and acronyms scare some people for some reason.

[c0nsci0usness]

@logtype47 you speak the truth my friend. Knowledge is power!

[o0xst]

Good work guys, keep it up!

[universetheverse]

it's totally fine in moderation!

high fructose corn syrup is a little unavoidable in this country...

[soccerplyr8898]

But see, thats exactly the problem. Its unavoidable in countless products, so the average person isn't going to be able to take it in moderation, it's typically going to be in a majority of products they consume.

[jhssuthrnmama]

Oh, thanks, CRA disguised as a u-tuber! :)

No, not unavoidable at all if you eat real food - just fruit, vegetables, meat, dairy, & eggs.

[universetheverse]

ah, since i eat other things besides meat, dairy and eggs (which if you have to get them at a store generally have MUCH MORE HARMFUL things in them that high fructose corn syrup), it's actually rather impossible, since there are no organic fruit and vegetables at the grocery store! i wish i were fortunate enough to eat "real food" on the pleasant farm where you eat, but unfortunately, i'm near a city, and the farms are a hell of a long way from here!

[rawkinrawmama]

organic whole foods vege diet....no HFCS here.

[jhssuthrnmama]

That's exactly why I only buy from real cows that eat real grass. Corncows, no thank you.

[CrimsonEmpire]

I think you missed the point

[Nateytracks]

Oh wow. Cow=meat...I never knew that.

...wanker.

[back2thefutre]

Are you like a dickhole or a fucker? Which one? I can't tell, but you are some sort of asshole, I know that. FU

[6rammstein]

@jhssuthrnmama funny thing that the two main ingredients of HFCS, fructose and glucose, are in many fruits that we eat.

[jhssuthrnmama]

And hey, the main ingredient of antifreeze (water) is in everything we eat!

Come on, it's an extremely refined product that leaves fructose completely isolated from its naturally occurring co-nutrients. It's not natural anymore than cocaine. Too much fruit isn't good for you, either, certainly not in the extreme quantity that it would take to match the amount of fructose the typical American consumes in a day's worth of processed food.

Who defends HFCS other than an industry rep?

[kingcornfilm]

Thanks for the comment Rooroolee - we'd love to get it on TV... it's just a question of funding. As you know, the Corn Refiners have an estimated $25 million for their effort. If you or someone you know wants to sponsor running our ad somewhere more modestly, we're happy to offer permission. - The King Corn crew

[rawkinrawmama]

I wish I had the money.....it'd be on the air every hour on the hour.

[rooroolee]

we have to some how get this on tv and compete with the corn refiners association.... hehe would that be possible?

[hoskievids]

I thought of "King Corn" the moment I saw those CRA ads. I'm so glad you guys did this parody - those ads are RIDICULOUS.

[pianoman430]

lol, loved it!

[StefanSteinerWA]

This is great. The moment I saw the HFCS ad on TV, I too thought the corn syrup industry must think of Americans the same way certain leaders in the Republican party see Americans as simple and gullible people who think that what we don't know won't hurt us. Thanks for the great video!

[swizzzlestik]

I'm hoping for a cartoon character called Corny, the Cool Corn Cob who eats only HFCS and all the chics dig him in the next HFCS commercial. You heard it here first...

[andyappleseed]

I love it. Keep doing your good work!

[aContribution]

no matter what the studies---do we need sugar in everything!!? HFCS scREAMS: PROCESSED FOOD!! EAT LESS!!

Go visit the fruits and veggie section they are confidently sitting silently in the grocery store. No contests, no wild health claims. Mmm. Produce.

[6rammstein]

@aContribution if you want to attack processed foods you should take a look at cheese. It barely meets the FDA's legal definition of cheese. they actually had to make laws defining what cheese is. also hotdogs and spam and basically any meat from a can. HFCS is about a "processed" as vinegar is, and about as dangerous.

[jhssuthrnmama]

@6rammstein

You just made 6 comments in a row defending HFCS on this video. Who does that?! Who cares that much in favor of it? I'm guessing you're a corn farmer. God bless the farmers of America, but this particular pseudo-farm-product is killing us!

You're right, "processed cheese" and "meat products" are total pseudo-food crap, too. The only vinegar worth eating is that which is merely the result of fermenting juices pressed from fruits, like raw ACV.

[6rammstein]

@jhssuthrnmama i know i posted a lot but i really wanted responses, and your own is the first so far. What people don't realize is that HFCS is made almost the same way vinegar is made (and alcohol). A fungus called Aspergillus is used to break down corn starch(polysaccharide made of glucose) into corn syrup(pure glucose and water). Then a bacteria is used to metabolize some of the glucose into fructose. And that's it. Basically a two step natural process.

[jhssuthrnmama]

Corn starch is a highly refined product to begin with.

Vinegar & alcohol are pure fermentation, no fungus added, and it happens naturally w/ naturally-present beneficial bacteria (ever walk past a tree that has dropped a load of fruit on the ground? smells like hard cider). You will never find corn starch or corn syrup or HFCS happening outside in nature.

[6rammstein]

@jhssuthrnmama Vinegar & alcohol both need microrganisms to be added to them to ferment it doesn't just happen on it's own. rotting fruit can ferment into alcohol, but cornstarch can also natural be broken down into glucose by bacteria naturally. put some cornstarch and water on your back porch when it's warm out and just wait.

[jhssuthrnmama]

You missed my point - have you ever seen an ear of corn spontaneously turn into corn starch? You're starting w/ a highly refined product, & then further refining it to create HFCS.

You put a mess of apples in a bin for a year & in the end, it's going to ferment all by itself, w/ the naturally occurring organisms, into alcohol & then into vinegar. I've seen it. The bacteria & yeast needed for the fermentation are naturally present on the apples & in the ambient air. HFCS is made in a lab.

[6rammstein]

but corn starch is not "processed", it's made in the corn kernel by the plant. you don't need to do anything to it. the white part of popcorn is the starch, it actually make up most of the inside of the kernel. You can do the same thing with cornstarch to metabolize it into glucose, put some in some water and leave it outside. Bacteria will breakdown the starch into glucose, the only problem is, unmonitored, bacteria will use the glucose for food. So yes it's done in a controlled environment.

[jhssuthrnmama]

You have got to be kidding me. This the last time I'll reply; I can't stand it anymore. Corn starch is an isolated product created by the refining of corn. It's refined to create corn syrup, then processed more to create HFCS. That's why it's called the Corn REFINER's Association - they PROCESS corn. It's PROCESSED food.

HFCS doesn't happen in nature. Period. Wiki it, folks.

[6rammstein]

@jhssuthrnmama medicine, plastics, synthetic goods, baby milk formula, gasoline, artificial hearts, prosthetic limbs, life support, vaccines, distilled water, antibacterial soap.

all artificial, all man made, all "unnatural". and there's plenty more than that.

[jhssuthrnmama]

They're not going down my throat, or my baby's. All technology has both good and bad (usually unintended) consequences, which must be fully evaluated, not blindly overlooked. But nice diversion off-topic - since you have spent the last 3 days bizarrely arguing that HFCS is as natural as vinegar, you have just admitted that it is not.

OK, I lied. But now, really, for my sanity, must.not.reply.any.more..... I have five children to homeschool...

[6rammstein]

Besides, comparing HFCS to sugar, it is essentially the same thing. HFCS is Glucose, Fructose and water. Table sugar, or it's chemical name sucrose, is a disaccharide meaning it's the combination of two simple sugars, those two sugars are glucose and fructose.glucose + fructose + water (HFCS) + energy = sugar. That is the actual chemical equation for the production of sucrose in plants such as sugar cane and beets.

[logtype47]

@6rammstein

may i ask where you got your research from? sources please?

[6rammstein]

@6rammstein And the processes used to make it as I described previously can be directly compared to they way vinegar is made through the fermentation of alcohol using bacteria called Acetobacter. And also the way alcohol is made using yeast. See if we called vinegar "Acetic acid" people would be afraid of it too for no reason. I'm not a farmer by the way I just strongly dislike ignorance and wish to correct the misinformed in a manner as civil as possible for me.

[WindDancerRanch]

Good job - great message. Keep at 'em!

[FORDCOUNTRY7885]

The High Fructose Corn Poison lobby is running scared. This parody ad NAILS it. They are acting exactly like the tobacco industry did in the 1960's. Knowing damn well their product kills people, and doing their damndest to suppress the facts.

[lovedefiesreality]

YES! Every time I see one of those damned corn syrup ads I involuntarily foam at the mouth.

[JessicaPersonalChef]

Thanks! Great video! I was wondering if you were going to speak up about the corn syrup study, once we heard on the news that it's "In no way harmful" to eat. Oh, Thomas' Light English muffins no longer use corn syrup! Yippeeee!! They are yummie!

[jszlasa]

Nice work guys--and by the way, isn't that chick in the Corn Syrup Industrial a little creepy?  and where did she get that frozen popsicle in the middle of that lawn?

[kermitpup]

Awesome! And the fact that the Corn Syrup industry had to come out with commercials to brain wash people into loving their product, just means that your film is having an impact.

Keep up the great work!

[sabrinafree]

Keep at it guys. Great job!

[mediawhit8]

Ha, love it!

[arrrbee]

hehe