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I don't understand why the focus of the anti-HFCS movement is on health. The problem with corn syrup is that it tastes bad and has lousy mouthfeel. If I'm going
by gabrielroth 16y ago
I don't understand why the focus of the anti-HFCS movement is on health. The problem with corn syrup is that it tastes bad and has lousy mouthfeel. If I'm going to consume empty calories, I want them to be delicious.
- s_m 16y agoAgreed, in Western Europe nothing is sweetened with HFCS and there are plenty of obese people. The problem isn't that soda is sweetened with HFCS, it's that people drink loads of soda and that it's deceptively calorific. I hate HFCS's bitter aftertaste and I'm amazed that nobody I've met in the USA seems to notice how awful it tastes. I can hardly bring myself to drink anything but diet soft drinks since I moved here.
- rsheridan6 16y agoI've had the Passover Coke (real sugar, no HFCS), and, even though I wanted to like it, I have to say that I liked regular coke better. Maybe it's just a matter of operant conditioning or something like that. That's the only basis I have to compare HFCS to sugar. I would prefer to have a pastry from a real bakery or a homemade cookie to a Twinkie or a McDonald's apple pie, but there's a big difference between mass-manufactured crap and the expensive stuff other than that the latter uses sugar and the former uses HFCS. The real problem with HFCS compared to sugar is that it's so cheap that it tends to be used everywhere.