Corn ingredients, chiefly found in soft drinks, energy drinks, and juice drinks as high fructose corn syrup, can unwittingly add significant calories to consumers diets.
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One concern: All that corn, which is rich in sugars and calories, has to go somewhere, and we're guzzling far too much of it in the form of high-fructose corn syrup, an economical sweetener used in an array of processed foods and beverages. Per capita production of high-fructose corn syrup has increased some 4,000 percent since 1973, and the syrup now rivals sugar as America's most common sweetener. The average American now consumes a whopping 42 pounds of high-fructose corn syrup each year, according to U. S. Department of Agriculture data. That's an extra 75,281 calories per year—enough to a feed a typical person for 37 days. The bulk of that comes via soda, energy drinks, and juice drinks. From soft drinks alone, teens typically get 15 to 20 teaspoons per day of added sugars from high-fructose corn syrup—some 11 percent of their daily total caloric intake, according to a report from the Food Trust, a Philadelphia based nonprofit organization. Another study shows that soft drinks have replaced milk as a dietary staple and have become the third-most-common breakfast food...
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Posted by energy at December 19, 2007 10:04 PM