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sugar isn't that much more expensive than corn syrup, so I don't think cancelling subsidies on it would make much difference at all as sugar could replace it 1:
by stjohnswarts 4y ago
sugar isn't that much more expensive than corn syrup, so I don't think cancelling subsidies on it would make much difference at all as sugar could replace it 1:1 with very little overall increase in prices of food products.
- pengaru 4y agoI don't think it's so simple, HFCS has industrial advantages over sucrose in addition to the subsidies. So if HFCS were made more expensive it's unclear to me if sucrose would even be an acceptable substitute for all the ways HFCS is (ab)used due to its sweetness, stability, and ease of use advantages over sucrose. They put HFCS in practically everything processed on store shelves because it's so cheap and checks many boxes from preservative to browning agent, and I'm sure myriad other effects I know nothing about.