You’re getting ready to whip up Aunt Becky’s famous pecan pie when you suddenly realize that you’re missing one key ingredient: corn syrup. Oops. Sure, you ...
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Is corn syrup bad for you?

If you’ve ever made pecan pie or whipped up a batch of homemade caramels, you’ve probably reached for a bottle of corn syrup.
With the advent of processed byproducts, the cheap way to sweeten products has been alchemy: turning American corn into a sugar substitute. But “high fructose corn syrup” has acquired a very bad ...
Few ingredients are included in as many foods as corn syrup. Though it comes in various forms, the high-fructose variety of corn syrup is in soft drinks, condiments, baked goods, fast food, breakfast ...