By Jeanne Yacoubou
\nVRG Research Director<\/p>\n
Also known as: HFCS, glucose-fructose, glucose-fructose syrup, fructose-glucose syrup<\/p>\n
Commercial source: corn<\/p>\n
Used in: soft drinks, juice, bread, cereal, granola bars, yogurt, soup, condiments, confections, desserts, ice cream, pharmaceuticals<\/p>\n
Used as: sweetener, texturizer, anti-crystallization agent
\nDefinition: A mixture of simple sugars glucose and fructose, HFCS is produced by microbial enzymes that convert some glucose to fructose. The major types of HFCS contain roughly equal amounts of glucose and fructose.<\/p>\n
Manufacturers:<\/p>\n
http:\/\/www.adm.com\/en-US\/products\/food\/sweeteners\/Pages\/default.aspx<\/a><\/p>\n According to ADM, their high fructose corn syrups \u201c…do not contain, and are not processed, with any animal products, by-products, or any animal derived products.\u201d<\/p>\n http:\/\/www.tateandlyle.com\/ingredientsandservices\/chooseaningredientorservice\/americas\/pages\/liquidcornsweeteners.aspx<\/a><\/p>\n According to Tate & Lyle, their high fructose corn syrups: \u201c…do not contain any ingredient of animal origin. The processing aid used to produce these products is not derived from animal origins.\u201d<\/p>\n http:\/\/sw.ingredion.us\/Ingredients\/sweeteners\/Pages\/Nutritive.aspx<\/a><\/p>\n According to Ingredion, \u201cWe do not create product from cane sugar or animal-derived processes.\u201d<\/p>\n Classification: Vegan<\/p>\n Entry added: May 2014<\/p>\n For information on more ingredients, see http:\/\/www.vrg.org\/ingredients\/index.php<\/a><\/p>\n To support VRG research, donate at www.vrg.org\/donate<\/a> By Jeanne Yacoubou VRG Research Director Also known as: HFCS, glucose-fructose, glucose-fructose syrup, fructose-glucose syrup Commercial source: corn Used in: soft drinks, juice, bread, cereal, granola bars, yogurt, soup, condiments, confections, desserts, ice cream, pharmaceuticals Used as: sweetener, texturizer, anti-crystallization agent Definition: A mixture of simple sugars glucose and fructose, HFCS is produced by microbial […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5538"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5539,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5538\/revisions\/5539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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