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Sugar by any other name…

is still sugar. And high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) is sugar, two sugars in fact, glucose and fructose. Our favorite food columnist, Marion Nestle,has a great Q&A post on HFCS up at SFGate, today. You can read it, here. And for once, we can safely recommend you cruise the reader comments section. Count us among the, “jury is still out” crowd when it comes to HFCS; honey comes from bees and HFCS is synthesized from corn, ’nuff said.