Corn Sugar: As tasty as it is healthy!

[ghost]

Reads to me like nobody likes HFCS? Why is it still bought, shouldn't the free market take care of it and Cane Sugar products flood the market?

Artifical sweeteners over here taste like shit as well, but I'm starting to enjoy the taste of Stevia.

Actually, I think the point is that "people" generally do prefer HCFS, meaning (in my opinion) that it is borderline addictive.  These large food companies do research as to what is preferable to the tastes of humans similar to what the tobacco companies were doing in the mid-late 1900s.  I would like to see a large class action lawsuit that looks at those research practices.  It would be very nice to see exactly what that research has added to their corporate decisions.  Likely it is as evil as the cigarette companies, even down to the focus on teenagers/kids. 

[Lantyssa]

From what Nebu posted earlier, I got the impression that HFCS is actually sweeter than normal sugar.  I also remember something from some previous thread on the subject about it doing funny things to your blood sugar when compared to similar amounts of regular sugar, but I don't remember if that was posted by someone who knew what they were talking about or not.

Fructose versus Sucrose, which is a complex of Fructose and Glucose.  So it has a different taste since they are quite literally different compounds, even if they break down into the same things after a few simple reactions.

[voodoolily]

I think people like being able to buy foods cheaply since there is more land mass for growing corn than sugar (though both are just giant grasses). Funny thing is, corn is mostly grown by white people, whereas sugar is grown by brown people. You'd think the way every other market in the world works that there'd be the opposite disparity in cost of product.

[ghost]

Is anything really "grown" by white people anymore?   

[Teleku]

[Numtini]

Try chorizo.

It might be the sausage, but no chorizo up here. I assume you mean South/Central American chorizo. We get the most amazing Portuguese chourico (pronounced sher-eese) from a little market in Fall River where it's made in the back, but that's completely different. I've used a few brands of andouille, but still just not quite there.

My understanding on HFCS is that while it is sweet, it doesn't connect with some system in the body that achieves satisfaction through sweetness. So you just keep eating and eating or drinking and drinking.

The other thing is that it's in everything. It's not so much the HFCS in soda as much as prepared foods. Salad dresssing, bread, packaged rice mixes, etc etc. Also, most of the cane sugar sodas I've seen have been gourmet soda, about the only ones I've actually enjoyed were root beers and I've never seen a good solid cola.

[Bunk]

As much as possible, I stick to Jones soda when I can. Better flavors and they use cane sugar. I absolutely love their Orange Cream Soda. I had thought it was a Canadian company, but apparently they are based out of Seattle.

Prices aren't too bad. Usually can get it around $1.30 per bottle. Less in bulk.

[RhyssaFireheart]

The Goose Island sodas are pretty darn good as well, IMO.  I'd only really had the root beer until recently when someone brought some spicy ginger and vanilla cream to a gathering.  I that spicy ginger so much, but I was still content just having one bottle of each to try them out.

[Johny Cee]

The other thing is that it's in everything. It's not so much the HFCS in soda as much as prepared foods. Salad dresssing, bread, packaged rice mixes, etc etc. Also, most of the cane sugar sodas I've seen have been gourmet soda, about the only ones I've actually enjoyed were root beers and I've never seen a good solid cola.

It's karmic retribution against New Englanders for creating Moxie.

[Jherad]

My understanding on HFCS is that while it is sweet, it doesn't connect with some system in the body that achieves satisfaction through sweetness. So you just keep eating and eating or drinking and drinking.

Right - my basic understanding of the theory is that fructose, unlike sucrose, does not stimulate the production of insulin, and thus leptin, which promotes the feeling of 'fullness'. People are therefore more likely to overeat.

A recent study on short term effects of HFCS on metabolism (sponsored by Pepsico, heh) doesn't necessarily bear that out however.

http://www.ajcn.org/cgi/content/full/87/5/1194

[Paelos]

I've been eating red beans and rice for dinner for 6 days now, and I still like it. Yum.

[Furiously]

http://www.louisianafishfry.com/reviews.php?action=submit&id=18 I could live on this stuff...

[RhyssaFireheart]

I'd think eating the same thing over and over again would get boring after a while.  Do you at least dress it up some with additions, or is it just plain red beans and rice?

I've decided that it's physically impossible to eat a salad fast, which probably helps contribute to the healthy part of eating them.  And one typical sized heart of romaine is perfect for a personal salad size.

[Paelos]

I do red beans and rice as a side, mostly with chicken and a veggie of some sort. Although I have tried fish.

[Furiously]

Andouille Sausage and maybe some ham, have to be careful as it starts getting too salty when you mix them.

[Sheepherder]

Jones soda ... I had thought it was a Canadian company, but apparently they are based out of Seattle.

Used to be Canadian, they moved south a while ago.