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Nutrition

Natural Sugar Vs. High-Fructose Corn Syrup

Posted July 6, 2009 3:20 PM

The bright red label on a bottle of Ocean Spray cranberry juice cocktail boasts that it contains no high-fructose corn syrup. Its sweet replacement: sugar. Other juice producers also have replaced the sweetener with cane or beet sugar. Big-name products including Log Cabin syrup, some Kraft Foods dressings and certain Pepsi products have gone the same route. Starbucks has undertaken a switch Read more...

See also: artificial sweeteners, beet sugar, cane sugar, corn syrup, nutrition, sugar

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Nutrition

Once-Reviled Sugar Makes a Comeback

Posted March 23, 2009 4:28 PM

Sugar, the nutritional pariah that dentists and dietitians have long reviled, is enjoying a second act, dressed up as a natural, healthful ingredient. From the tomato sauce on a Pizza Hut pie called "The Natural," to the just-released soda Pepsi Natural, some of the biggest players in the U.S. food business have started replacing high-fructose corn syrup with old-fashioned sugar. Read more...

See also: corn syrup, fructose, sucrose, sugar, sweeteners

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November 20

The Real Scoop on High Fructose Corn Syrup and Sugar

by @ 5:48 pm. Filed under corn syrup, fructose, sugar
Bob sent me an email wanting to know if bee honey is more fattening than jelly or jam when used on a piece of bread. Bob, it’s your personal preference. The calories in a tablespoon of honey, jam or jelly average 55-65 and there is very little difference nutritionally so enjoy your favorite. The key to weight maintenance is portion control and the total calories you take in every day against how many you burn off in daily activities and exercise. Your question, Bob, ties in with the current urban myth that high fructose corn syrup is the evil sweetener that is making everyone fat. It reminds me of when eggs got such a bad rap and people stopped eating them because they were told their cholesterol would go up. More…
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