How bad for you is high-fructose corn syrup?
If you want to cut down drastically the amount of processed food you eat, don’t buy anything that has high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS) in it. Unfortunately, you’ll have to have a strong liking for the taste of lettuce and notebook paper, because HFCS is in nearly everything: jelly, juice, sodas, whole-grain breads, cereals, ketchup, crackers, yogurt, sweet pickles, applesauce, salad dressing, ice cream, cough syrup and lots more. So what is it? First, let’s take a look at fructose. Fructose is a naturally occurring simple sugar that’s produced by many plants. It’s very sweet, and it’s more soluble in water than glucose, another simple sugar that’s also made readily available by nature and is the body’s main source of energy. Fructose and glucose have the same type of atoms but are put together differently. When you combine fructose with glucose, you wind up with sucrose, which is your basic table sugar. Corn syrup is a glucose-heav
