The Not-So-Sweet Reality: HFCS and the American Diet
Authored by: Castine Hardesty Art by: Claire Ma Most Americans are acutely familiar with the concept of high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) as an unhealthy sugar alternative. Despite this, HFCS is, without exaggeration, everywhere in America – it is in soda, condiments, macaroni and cheese, canned soups, pizza, flavored cottage cheese, lunch meat, bread, and crackers – and that is only a fraction of the common groceries in which HFCS is present [1,2]. It is undeniable that this unhealthy...