corn syrup

High-fructose corn syrup has gotten such a bad name that the Corn Refiners Association, in a bid to repair its image, has asked the federal government to allow it to drop the label and replace it with "corn sugar." In a petition to the FDA, the lobbying arm of the syrup-making industry argues that...

The corn refining industry is seeking to make one of the most common ingredients in American food sound a little more palatable to health-conscious consumers and food companies. The Corn Refiners Associations filed a petition on Tuesday with the Food and Drug Administration to change the name of...

After years of debate about the role of high-fructose corn syrup in the obesity epidemic, many food manufacturers are going back to using sugar to sweeten products. For many people, sugar and honey are seen as more natural products than corn syrup, so some food companies are choosing to play up the...

Recently, the news has featured dozens of stories about the rising cost of corn. As a combination of the corn lobby and a few shortsighted policymakers have more or less decided that corn-based ethanol is the solution to all our energy problems, more and more of the precious crop has been diverted...