With the advent of processed byproducts, the cheap way to sweeten products has been alchemy: turning American corn into a sugar substitute. But “high fructose corn syrup” has acquired a very bad ...

Yesterday the Food and Drug Administration denied the Corn Refiners Association (CRA) petition to rename high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS) as “corn sugar,” a request they had made almost two years ago, ...

“It’s made from corn. It doesn’t have artificial ingredients. Like sugar, it’s fine in moderation.” This from a new TV ad campaign extolling the virtues and relative safety of high-fructose corn syrup ...

And the nation’s corn refiners are seeking to rebrand the ingredient “high-fructose corn syrup.” In a filing to the Food and Drug Administration, the Corn Refiners Association has asked permission to ...

LOS ANGELES, CA -- Hundreds of millions of dollars are at stake for both sides in a federal court case that's shaping up as the battle of the sweeteners. Yet behind all the legal bluster between sugar ...