The sweetener world is in dispute again

The group's impartiality has been sharply questioned by the Corn Finishing Association after a civil society group known as Citizens Health claimed that high fructose corn syrup was "the number one additive to avoid on this year's Product Label Reading Day."the debate is directed at nutritional sweeteners in the United States.Citizens Health, a nonprofit consumer protection group that claims to have
,130,000 supporters, claims to have set up Product Label Reading Day to help the public understand what's in packaged foods and to identify controversial industrial sweeteners as the worst ingredient in the ingredient list on the nonprofit's Food Identity Theft website
.the group also claims that although the food and drug administration (
FDA
) has assessed the safety of
55
high fructose corn syrup, the study found that the ratio of fructose to glucose in soft drinks is
At 55:45
the fructose concentration is
59%
, and Coca-Cola, Pepsi and Sprite are
64%-65%
.Bode, chairman and chief executive
of the
Corn Processing Association, has expressed disdain for Citizens Health."
, in fact, all information from Citizens Health should be marked with a warning sign, 'Big Sugar Sponsorship,'" Mr. Bode said. Earlier this year, the Washington Post and the New York Times revealed the group's severe financial dependence on the American Sugar Association and its leading role in spreading misinficion about high-fruit corn syrup. In fact, one expert called the organization Citizen Sugar.Citizens Health recently attacked an untrustworthy study in an internal memo promoting the American Sugar Association's chief scientific adviser, who called it too unreliable to be cited.citizens' health group has come under fire from Washington Post and New York Times articles that it is a grass-roots consumer organization when it is largely funded by the sugar industry.recent years, corn processors have sought to link corn-based sweeteners to the generic term sugar in order to neutralize the attitude of critics of high fructose corn syrup. The industry tried unsuccessfully to rename its product corn sugar, which was rejected by the Food and Drug Administration.in addition to opposing the name "corn sugar," the sugar beet
/
sugarcane industry is also trying to distance its products from corn sweeteners by creating public syrup for high fructose.
Turner
a member of citizens' health group, is the latest to attack high-fructose corn syrup by "seeding the seeds of the challenge."despite the soaring proportion of people with diabetes and obesity, Americans consume the same amount of real sugar per capita as they did

1909," he said. Mr
Turner
, "a lot of people are speculating about whether high fructose corn syrup is playing a role." If this problem is not solved, they will try to avoid consuming high fructose corn syrup. ”