Syrup

[vakkotaur]

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.

Comments

[nefaria.livejournal.com]

I'm just wondering what they'll use for cheap sugar now that so much corn is being used for ethanol.

I also wonder how they get high-fructose corn syrup from corn, since fructose is fruit sugar and corn is a vegetable.

[jcw-da-dmg.livejournal.com]

Corn is a grain. Fructose is not exclusively from fruit; it's just a generic term because that's where it's mostly found.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fructose

(I realize wikipedia is far from being an authoritative source, but it's easy to find quickly).