In the US, HFCS is among the sweeteners that have partially replaced sucrose (table sugar), thanks to governmental subsidies of U.S. corn and an import tariff on foreign sugar, raising the price of sucrose to levels above those of the rest of the world, making HFCS a cost-efficient for many sweetener applications.

Critics of the extensive use of HFCS in food sweetening argue that the highly processed substance is more harmful to humans than regular sugar, contributing to weight gain by affecting normal appetite functions, and that in some foods HFCS may be a source of mercury, a known neurotoxin.

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In the US, HFCS is among the sweeteners that have partially replaced sucrose (table sugar), thanks to governmental subsidies of U.S. corn and an import tariff on foreign sugar, raising the price of sucrose to levels above those of the rest of the world, making HFCS a cost-efficient for many sweetener applications.

Critics of the extensive use of HFCS in food sweetening argue that the highly processed substance is more harmful to humans than regular sugar, contributing to weight gain by affecting normal appetite functions, and that in some foods HFCS may be a source of mercury, a known neurotoxin.

They been using this garbage for years in Soda (pepsi / coca cola / cheap walmart brand sodas).
Mexican coke actually uses sugar not HCFS.
Why would I want to put this garbage inside my body when its a neurotoxin?
Not only that it's more worser then natural sugar.
This is an over processed product, we have alot of artifical flavors and artifical products in food. And other chemicals.

Our liver and GI tract processes all this, and yes alot of natural things have chemicals, if you look into corn it's actually genetically modified to be resistance to a certain weed killer poison and 60 percent of the corn in US population is GM.

The sad part farmers are spraying alot of weed killer on the crops since the corn is resistance to it, your getting that on your corn traces of the poison.

That's why they say to wash your veggies, the problem is major corporations like pepsi-cola and coca cola use HFCS made by some sort of lab, and I doubt that lab is going to wash the corn throughly, but I have no proof or evidence of this.

So if they do a pre-wash on the corn before they make it into HFCS, then you could be somewhat safe from the contaminants in the final product.

Much research must go into this before claiming that HFCS isn't entirely safe. However if the pre-cursor (Corn) wasn't pre-washed under some sort of system, then you can say your getting trace amounts of that poison mixed in the HFCS, and your consuming the product, the only way we can start getting healthier HFCS is activism and bringing awareness to the consumers, because we buy these products we have the power to force companies to start regulations on there sources of HFCS, to make sure there is a standard and practice in place to make sure the pre-cursor has been filtered of any contamination, but again HFCS contains trace amounts of mercury, and possibly the pesticides sprayed on the corn, so your getting mercury + pesticides in your HFCS. Sadly this is probably the reason why alot of people end up with cancer or disease because these corporations don't have health in mind, it's all about cost effectiveness.

[edit on 9-6-2010 by cyb0rne]