Is High Fructose Corn Syrup really no longer a threat?
When I was writing a food column three times a week for United Press International, the one subject that would stir readers to block my email inbox was when I wrote about High Fructose Corn Syrup. After an article in 2004 in the American Jourhal of Clinical Nutrition suggested that HFCS might be a key culprit in rising obesity, HFCS became targetted by nutritionists. Now one of the article’s authors has had a rethink about pinpointing HFCS as obesity’s major cause and the Center for Consumer Freedom has launched an ad campaign to try and turn around what it describes as “an urban myth” that HFCS is a more highly processed, less healthy ingredient than sugar. Justin Wilson, senior research analyst at CCF, told FoodNavigator-USA.com: “We realized that we are at a tipping point when we see companies like Starbucks stabbing the rest of the food industry in the back and saying that a bear claw with sugar is healthier than one with high fructose corn syrup. It’s a marketing gimmick because t
