High Fructose Corn Syrup No Worse Than "Real" Sugar, Study Says
Study published in the Nutrition Journal
High fructose corn syrup (HFCS) is a fructose-glucose mix that's a little more stably and economically used in food production than traditional table sugar (sucrose). When everyone in the United States started getting fat, there was a temporal correlation with our use of HFCS (among many other things), and we worried that the relationship was causal. Though current evidence suggests that the form in which we ingest added sugar is vasty less important than the quantity we ingest, the metabolic effects of HFCS on the body are still believed by some to be worse than traditional sugar.