Syrup

In the U.S. it is somewhat difficult to find sweetened goods that use sugar as the sweetener. Almost everything manufactured is made with corn syrup or the modified high-fructose corn syrup. This is because corn is fairly cheap and real sugar is not. Even with the price of sugar kept high, it's pretty amazing that corn syrup is so cheap. It must be quite labor intensive to tap all those cornstalks and collect the sap.