http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/31/no-new-name-for-high-fructose-corn-syrup/?ref=health
The FDA recently rejected a request made by the Corn Refiner's Association submitted in September 2010 to change the name of high fructose corn syrup to the more benign "corn sugar". I do believe a bit of sass crept through in the refusal, but the FDA cited many technical and health reasons to bar the change. The term "corn sugar" has apparently already been claimed by the sweetener dextrose, the term "sugar" is reserved for the crystalized solid and since HFCS is a syrup it would be a misnomer, and that people with HFCS intolerancies have learned to associate the term "corn sugar" with eatable and HFCS with not eatable and to change the name would be detrimental to their health. The Corn Refiner's Association's response was to remind everyone that recent research has shown the HFCS is "nutritionally" the same as any other sugar. Except they didn't mention that sugar has little "nutrional" value anyway, and that it doesn't matter what you call it it still makes you fat.
I enjoyed the article because I am wholeheartedly glad that the FDA stuck it to the Corn Refiner's Association. It wasn't particularly well written it was more entirely factual and I think I projected that sassyness onto the FDA but all's well that ends well. Personally I don't even like how HFCS tastes. Not that it tastes the same in everything. But like real non diet soda is disgustingly sweet to me (althought the fake sugar is just as bad for you but in a different way). And that's my only example that has a direct comparison. And might I add that corn does not need to be subsidized anymore thank you very much.
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