Corn Syrup (HFCS) And Its Effects On The Human Body

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Chemicals in Foods—HFCS With the development of processing technology of food, food additives are commonly used in today's food products to either improve the taste or lower the difficulty of preservation. Though the purpose of using food additives all sound beneficial for customers, the effects of food additives have been among the controversial topics for many years in modern society. Actually, the effects of food additives are related to many aspects including quantity, the food itself, and how people eat it. This essay is going to explain High-fructose corn syrup (HFCS)'s effects on human bodies, and how they can be positive or negative. HFCS basically comes from glucose in genetically modified corns after a series of processes,…show more content…
Firstly, as this essay has already mentioned, HFCS can reach the same sweetness as the traditional cane sugar does with less amount, and the price of a metric ton of HFCS is even cheaper than a metric ton of cane sugar. Therefore, using HFCS saves a huge amount of money for soda companies. However, this phenomenon isn't for no reason, but for the protection towards corn production in the U.S.. A system of sugar tariffs and sugar quotas imposed in 1977 in the United States significantly increased the cost of imported sugar, and U.S. producers sought cheaper sources. HFCS derived from corn is more economical because the domestic U.S. prices of sugar are twice the global price and the price of corn is kept low through government subsidies paid to growers. HFCS became an attractive substitute and is preferred over cane sugar by the vast majority of American food and beverage manufacturers. Soft drink makers such as Coca-Cola and Pepsi use sugar in other nations but switched to HFCS in the U.S. in 1984. Large corporations, such as Archer Daniels Midland, lobby for the continuation of government corn subsidies. Nothing is ever absolute, and everything has chance to be good or bad. HFCS could help soda companies rich so the employees may have better salary, or HFCS could make us sick, cause physical disorders if we have too much of it. In my opinion, we could enjoy the benefits that HFCS brings to us as long as we control our limit line of intaking it and the companies use the non-mercury way to

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