How to Make High-Fructose Corn Syrup (from King Corn)

The scene from the documentary "King Corn" in which they make their own HFCS.

And foods carrying this stuff are allowed to be labeled as "Natural!"

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[mujaku]

@soylentgreenb Applying the HFCS industry logic, if you take ground up shoe leather add motor they come out to being identical with hamburger!

[KHemp93]

whether its high frutose corn syrup or mercury... your body cant tell the difference.. lol 

[tomaf]

The body cannot tell the difference between high fructose corn syrup and arsenic, they are both poisonous. LOL

[ilsdmspjs]

you people are fighting over whether or not sugar and HFCS are the same and which is better....they both make you fat and HFCS is made with poison and other harsh ingredients.

[eron1979]

why cant you just sprout it then make into a mash strain the pulp whith cheese cloth then boil down the liquid after the enzymes break down all the startch into sugar (just like they do in the human body) then you would have a corn wart like making beer. then you could fermit it lol

[jsts22]

@soylentgreenb and no, there isn't only one source that says HFCS is worse than sugar. I can easily find tons of reliable sources that agree with me. All of which are independent and have no reason for bias in them. Does Princeton University really have a bias if you eat real sugar or corn sugar? I doubt it.

[jsts22]

@soylentgreenb Rounding error? Scientists usually round to the tenth or hundredth of a number using significant figures. If you are rounding in science, you aren't going to be 8% off, that is a huge number. More like .0008 % off. So no, 8% in science is no where near the same. And why don't you cite some of these studies from reliable sources saying HFCS is the same as sugar? (and no, the corn industry or corn farmers are not reliable sources).

[soylentgreenb]

@jsts22 "And how do you explain the lab studies where rats that where given HFCS in their diet gain significantly more weight than the rats with only real sugar in their diet?"

Confirmation bias.

There have been a number of peer-reviewed studies conducted on sucrose vs. HFCS in reputable journals and you're discarding the all but the only one that supports your desired conclusion.

"And you said HFCS is ok in moderation."

Bullshit. I said sugar and HFCS are both bad for you.

[soylentgreenb]

@jsts22 "If sugar is 50% fructose and 50% glucose, then even if you look at HFCS that is 42% fructose, that is not identical."

A few percent either way is a rounding error.