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If you have the power will you ban high fructose corn syrup? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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rt, will you ban it?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Peanuts and dairy are usually possible to spot without checking the ingredients list, and they serve a distinct culinary purpose. They have valid reasons to exist, and are fairly simple, if a little annoying, to avoid.

HFCS does not serve a distinct culinary purpose (it's pretty much just sugar but it benefits from corn subsidies), and is impossible to identify without careful scrutiny because it's included in all sorts of foods that it has no business being in. The (purely financial) benefit it provides is far outweighed by its harm to public health.