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James M. Rippe, M.D., Cardiologist and Biomedical Sciences Professor at the University of Central Florida talks about physical activity and obesity.
HFCS Study on Hunger
A peer-reviewed study found that beverages sweetened with sugar and high fructose corn syrup affect fullness and hunger in the same way.
HFCS FAQ
Has the use of high fructose corn syrup in the food supply increased the amount of fructose in the diet? Get answers to frequently asked questions.
Food & Drug Administration
Read what the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
has to say about high fructose corn syrup.
In 1983, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) formally listed high fructose corn syrup as safe for use in food and reaffirmed that decision in 1996. In its 1996 ruling, the FDA noted that “the saccharide composition (glucose to fructose ratio) of HFCS is approximately the same as that of honey, invert sugar and the disaccharide sucrose [table sugar].”
The Food and Drug Administration stated, referring to a process commonly used by the corn refining industry, that it “would not object to the use of the term ‘natural’ on a product containing the HFCS produced by [that] manufacturing process....”
Geraldine A. June, Supervisor, Product Evaluation and Labeling Team, Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition
Letter to Corn Refiners Association, July 3, 2008