Beg your pardon? Corn syrup? Not corn oil? Is that a real thing?
...how does it taste? Is it sugary?

I am sure it's supposed to be high-fructose corn syrup, a common sweetener in US drinks. More traditional corn syrup also exists like the Karo brand corn syrup which is readily available at grocery stores. Their light corn syrup has a consistency like honey, though not really a flavor.

GreyOmega said:

I am sure it's supposed to be high-fructose corn syrup, a common sweetener in US drinks. More traditional corn syrup also exists like the Karo brand corn syrup which is readily available at grocery stores. Their light corn syrup has a consistency like honey, though not really a flavor.

Not just a sweetener for drinks, it's in basically everything. It's one of the many contributors to the obesity crisis.

FRien said:

Beg your pardon? Corn syrup? Not corn oil? Is that a real thing?
...how does it taste? Is it sugary?

Like sirop de glucose you can get at Aldi used in baking and confectionaries, but 'sickly'/cloyingly sweeter. (Because of the much higher fructose content.)

FRien said:

Beg your pardon? Corn syrup? Not corn oil? Is that a real thing?
...how does it taste? Is it sugary?

It is literally a cheap substitute for cane sugar. The full name is high fructose corn syrup. It has a bad texture especially when used in soda. Most people forget that America was a nation of farmers first and they are a very powerful lobby today that enjoy plenty of government benefits. However, the public is becoming increasingly aware of how bad it is.

One thing to note though for any carbonated sugary soft drinks is the difference between high fructose corn syrup and sugar sweetened drinks is the amount of fructose to glucose in the drink. A drink like coca-cola using high fructose corn syrup will have potentially a 60% fructose to 40% glucose mix. Mexican coca-cola using cane sugar will have a 50% fructose to 50% glucose mix. The presence of fructose for any of these drinks is unavoidable since regular sugar, sucrose, is composed of fructose and glucose. The acidic environment from carbonating the drink will rapidly break down the sucrose into its base components so by the time someone consumes the drink there will be no sucrose left in it.

magicballoon said:

It is literally a cheap substitute for cane sugar. The full name is high fructose corn syrup. It has a bad texture especially when used in soda. Most people forget that America was a nation of farmers first and they are a very powerful lobby today that enjoy plenty of government benefits. However, the public is becoming increasingly aware of how bad it is.

Funny you should mention that since it was just announced that Coca Cola US will switch back using Sugarcane instead of Corn Syrup for their soda after pressure from the US Government. Of course, Corn farmers and the Corn lobby are not please with the news since will cost them both jobs and money from this switch.

fsnfanboy said:

Funny you should mention that since it was just announced that Coca Cola US will switch back using Sugarcane instead of Corn Syrup for their soda after pressure from the US Government.

Has Coke actually announced it themselves now or is this Trump and Fox News which announced it while the company has been rather ambiguous on when or if they'll do it?

Looks like Coca-Cola finally made their announcement, but as I suspected they're not switching from high fructose corn syrup to cane sugar for their recipe but instead going to be releasing a version of coca-cola alongside it that does use cane sugar. It is what Pepsi has already done with their regular Pepsi cola and their Pepsi Made With Real Sugar label (formerly Pepsi Throwback).

NNescio said:

Like sirop de glucose you can get at Aldi used in baking and confectionaries, but 'sickly'/cloyingly sweeter. (Because of the much higher fructose content.)

magicballoon said:

It is literally a cheap substitute for cane sugar. The full name is high fructose corn syrup. It has a bad texture especially when used in soda. Most people forget that America was a nation of farmers first and they are a very powerful lobby today that enjoy plenty of government benefits. However, the public is becoming increasingly aware of how bad it is.

I'm gonna need someone to explain me why maize syrup has more fructose than, y'know, literally sugarcane syrup.
Then again, I do cook with maple syrup sometimes, it's great in hot chocolate, with some cinnamon or cardamome.

FRien said:

I'm gonna need someone to explain me why maize syrup has more fructose than, y'know, literally sugarcane syrup.
Then again, I do cook with maple syrup sometimes, it's great in hot chocolate, with some cinnamon or cardamome.

Sounds like it's the how the common process works on making high fructose corn syrup (HFCS). Going by Wikipedia, it's a multi-step chemical process to break down corn starch into simpler sugars. The initial product produced by it sounds like it is HFCS 42 which is 42% fructose and the remainder glucose. This product is apparently used in things like processed foods and breakfast cereals, and though Wikipedia doesn't state it, there must be a reason it isn't quite right for use in some products as they then take additional steps to further process the HFCS. The next step further purifies some of the HFCS until it's HFCS 90 which is then mixed back into the HFCS 42 to become HFCS 55 which is used to sweeten soft drinks. HFCS 55 going by Wikipedia is apparently comparable in sweetness to regular sugar.

This sounds a lot like what I've heard is used in the production of brown sugar. While brown sugar can be unrefined, a lot of companies apparently will instead refined it into the base components of white sugar and molasses. They then will actually reintroduce the molasses back into the white sugar to produce brown sugar. Some arguments of brown sugar being better for you than white sugar was based on the assumption it's less processed, but missing that the majority of brown sugar is more processed than white sugar.

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Fozzy said:

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The lifespan thing isnt a generational thing but a regional thing. Dont know where that came from.

Any American that gripes about the metric system, but boasts about having a Mustang 5.0, deserves to be repeatedly run over by said Mustang.