High Fructose Corn Syrup? - Alternative Medicine Message Board

Concerned Male · 10-05-2005, 07:32 PM

I was wondering some things about high fructose corn syrup. Is it considered natural? Cause I've seen it in the ingredients of some foods they were labeled as being 'all natural'. High fructose corn syrup seems to be in so many different foods at the grocery stores. Is it bad for a person's health to eat a lot of it?

Jennita · 10-06-2005, 12:17 AM

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Originally Posted by Concerned Male

I was wondering some things about high fructose corn syrup. Is it considered natural? Cause I've seen it in the ingredients of some foods they were labeled as being 'all natural'. High fructose corn syrup seems to be in so many different foods at the grocery stores. Is it bad for a person's health to eat a lot of it?

I haven't researched it yet; however, I know it to be a very concentrated sweetner full of calories and hard to digest so it can cause alot of weight gain and some people can't make enough of the enzymes to digest it and thus get stomach pain from it. It's called fructose intolerance (simular to lactose intolerance but newer and not as well known, can be mistaken for IBS). My daughter has it.

I wouldn't eat alot of it.

notpain · 10-09-2005, 11:55 AM

It's corn sugar. To your body sugar is sugar and most things made with flour - bleached white flour convert in your body to sugar. Natural or not it still is a BAD idea to consume much sugar or refined white flour or anything that makes your blood quickly acidic.

rids · 10-11-2005, 09:23 AM

It makes my kids hyper- it is a "dirty" syrup, and extremely hard to digest. We avoid it
completely

EngineErnie11 · 11-02-2005, 07:55 PM

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Originally Posted by Concerned Male

I was wondering some things about high fructose corn syrup. Is it considered natural?

No

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Cause I've seen it in the ingredients of some foods they were labeled as being 'all natural'.

False and misleading, tell me about it.

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High fructose corn syrup seems to be in so many different foods at the grocery stores. Is it bad for a person's health to eat a lot of it?

It is bad for a person's health to eat any of it. I know most products do have high fructose corn syrup, it's impossible to avoid it completely. Avoid it as much as you can.