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I’ve used high-fructose corn syrup in making marshmallows, it’s just corn sugar

• generalizations 3y ago
  The original point discussed was this: > They mean food that is processed industrially with a bunch of (usually unnecessary) chemicals added to stabilize or enrich the food. Oreos are a processed food. Cake you make at home from whole ingredients is not processed. The ingredients I listed aren't whole ingredients - which I would take to be e.g. flour, eggs, milk, butter, etc. If you're cooking with high-fructose corn syrup then you're not cooking with whole ingredients.
  • maxerickson 3y ago
    This is "flour is a whole ingredient because I say so". The properties of flour are in fact quite different than the properties of whole wheat. And of course there is then a continuum, from whole wheat flour to white flour to bleached white flour.
    • generalizations 3y ago
      I grew up with a countertop electric flour mill...I'm fully aware there's a continuum. And whole wheat flour is a far cry from heavily processed high fructose corn syrup.
• buescher 3y ago
  Grocery store corn syrup you might use for baking is just corn syrup, not high-fructose corn syrup.
  • maxerickson 3y ago
    Corn syrup is made by converting starches to glucose. HFCS is made by converting some of that glucose to fructose. There might be some significant nutritional impact from that, but it's more or less a similar process to make it (with an additional reaction to convert some of the glucose to fructose).