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Why do Costco bagels have high fructose corn syrup?

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Because corn syrup is a cheap way of putting glucose and fructose into the product. They could use table sugar (sucrose), which is nearly identical, but being granular it's a bit harder to deal with, and it's slightly more expensive. read more

Because corn syrup is a cheap way of putting glucose and fructose into the product. They could use table sugar (sucrose), which is nearly identical, but being granular it's a bit harder to deal with, and it's slightly more expensive. read more

High Fructose Corn Syrup (which was recently re-branded by big agriculture to the new name "Corn Sugar" - to further throw consumers into confusion) is a cheap alternative to table sugar which is usually made from sugar cane or sugar beets. read more

Pancake, or table, syrup is a highly processed product. The primary ingredient is corn syrup and/or high-fructose corn syrup. Some experts suggest that high-fructose corn syrup may be processed by the body differently than other types of sugar, while others say that there is little difference. read more

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