• corey389@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    For starters number one on the list, fructose corn syrup is specifically engineered just for those reasons. “Eating More”

    • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      “Artificial sweetener” usually means something that stimulates your taste buds like sugar but cannot be metabolically processed for energy like sugar. HFCS is still actually sugar.

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      1 year ago

      Ah, not really a thing here in Europe :) Lucky for us haha

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        1 year ago

        It’s called glucose-sucrose syrup and it is legal in the EU. You do have it you just call it something else. I can also be called isoglucose

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          Yeah it is legal just not really used except in products from the US like bbq sauce haha