What is the difference between HFCS and "regular" corn syrup. It is easy
enough to look up the chemical difference, but what is the practical
difference (sweetening power, taste, price,etc). Some products list one or
the other, and some (Hunt's and Heinz Ketchup, Aunt Jemima syrup, among
others) list both on their ingredient label.

Brian Christiansen

"Brian Christiansen" > wrote in message
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> What is the difference between HFCS and "regular" corn syrup. It is easy
> enough to look up the chemical difference, but what is the practical
> difference (sweetening power, taste, price,etc). Some products list one
> or
> the other, and some (Hunt's and Heinz Ketchup, Aunt Jemima syrup, among
> others) list both on their ingredient label.
>
> Brian Christiansen
>
>

When you used google to search using the words "what is high fructose corn
syrup?", what did you find?

"JoeSpareBedroom" > wrote in message
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> When you used google to search using the words "what is high fructose corn
> syrup?", what did you find?
>
I did look up HFCS on google before I asked this, but I did not click on and
read all ~1,000,000 articles. If I missed the one that actually explains
what I want to know, please point it out. I found lots of articles about how
HFCS is made, how it differs from sugar, why it is "bad," why it is used,
how it differs chemically from "regular" corn syrup, but not the practical
reasons why one or the other or both would be used.

I want to know the practical difference between HFCS and regular corn syrup.
There must be some difference because some foods list one or the other, and
some foods list both.

Brian Christiansen

"Brian Christiansen" > wrote in message
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> "JoeSpareBedroom" > wrote in message
> ...
>>
>> When you used google to search using the words "what is high fructose
>> corn syrup?", what did you find?
>>
> I did look up HFCS on google before I asked this, but I did not click on
> and read all ~1,000,000 articles. If I missed the one that actually
> explains what I want to know, please point it out. I found lots of
> articles about how HFCS is made, how it differs from sugar, why it is
> "bad," why it is used, how it differs chemically from "regular" corn
> syrup, but not the practical reasons why one or the other or both would be
> used.
>
> I want to know the practical difference between HFCS and regular corn
> syrup. There must be some difference because some foods list one or the
> other, and some foods list both.
>
> Brian Christiansen
>


Didn't the "why it is used" article address the issue of "practical
difference"? What *did* it say about why it is used?

>> "JoeSpareBedroom" > wrote in message
>> ...

> Didn't the "why it is used" article address the issue of "practical
> difference"?

Between HFCS and (cane or beet) sugar, yes, the big one being that it is
cheaper, and that is mostly, I think, because of farm subsidies. Between
HFCS and "regular" corn syrup, no. I think I've explained that at least
twice.

Brian Christansen

Brian Christiansen wrote:
> What is the difference between HFCS and "regular" corn syrup. It is easy
> enough to look up the chemical difference, but what is the practical
> difference (sweetening power, taste, price,etc). Some products list one or
> the other, and some (Hunt's and Heinz Ketchup, Aunt Jemima syrup, among
> others) list both on their ingredient label.
>
> Brian Christiansen
>
>


Fructose is twice as sweet as glucose (dextrose).

Sucrose is a double-sugar (disaccharide) made up of one glucose and one
fructose. If you separate the two (with enzymes or by cooking with an
acid catalyst) you get invert sugar syrup. Kind of a colorless
artificial honey.

Corn sugar is dextrose, so I assume ADM or Cargill or somebody like that
came up with a process for making an equivalent of invert sugar syrup
out of corn starch instead of beet or cane sugar -- corn sugar is much
cheaper in the US due to government price supports on sugar.

I have no references for this info except my own memory, which is
probably flawed, but it should give you some search words. HTH :-)

Best regards,
Bob