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"Pop quiz: what did you do the last time you saw the words &amp;quot;high fructose corn syrup&amp;quot; included among the ingredients of something you considered buying? Did you put it down and choose something with &amp;quot;all natural&amp;quot; sugar instead?  What if the ingre   dients included something like &amp;quot;corn sugar&amp;quot;? Doesn&amp;#039;t that sound a little bit homier? A little more gentle? You&amp;#039;re going to start hearing that term quite a bit from now on. Earlier this week, the Corn Refiners Association petitioned the Food and Drug Administration to allow them to begin labeling HFCS as corn sugar and, while the petitioning process will probably drag itself out for as long as 18 months, the CRA has already begun promoting the term. Whatever your feelings about HFCS \u2013 and there are quite a few of you who believe HFCS is nothing short of evil incarnate \u2013this name change, assuming it&amp;#039;s allowed to go through, probably isn&amp;#039;t a bad idea. The Corn Refiners insist &amp;quot;Relabeling high fructose corn syrup as &amp;#039;corn sugar&amp;#039; enables consumers to easily identify added sugars in the diet&amp;quot; and, yes, that&amp;#039;s certainly a positive thing. What they don&amp;#039;t mention, however, is that corn syrup \u2013 a byproduct of a heavily subsidized commodity crop \u2013 has tanked in sales over the past couple of years to a 20-year low, according to the New York Times. Various food companies have been dropping high fructose corn syrup from their products in response to consumer concerns about whether the stuff is a health hazard. Hunt&amp;#039;s Ketchup, made by ConAgra Foods, did it most famously earlier this year. Is the sticky sweetener really dangerous? As Fooducate pointed out: &amp;quot;Most scientists agree that HFCS is no better and no worse than plain sugar. The big problem is that Americans consume way too much of both. Some math: \u2022 According to the USDA, every man woman and child in the US consumes approximately 40 pounds of sugar and 40 pounds of HFCS every year. \u2022 That works out to 25 tsp of added sweetener per day. \u2022 Which is 400 calories!&amp;quot; Even Marion Nestle, famous for her criticisms of industrial food, has stated that HFCS is no worse than ordinary sugar, noting too that that eating too much of either is bad for you. The truth is, no matter how bad it may be for us, we do want the occasional treat and nothing is going to convince us that a tofu-flavored, high-fiber, sugar- and HFCS-free, all-bran cracker is actually more appealing.  So, keep on the lookout for all those added sugars in whatever you buy and, even better, rather than buying  sweets and desserts at the stores, think about making them yourself. They&amp;#039;ll taste better and you&amp;#039;ll have more control over what goes into them. Everybody wins.  Well, everybody except for the people who make all those tofu-flavored, high-fiber, sugar- and HFCS-free, all-bran crackers. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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