Today at the Institute of  Food Technologist Conference in Anaheim, CA, three top researchers corrected inaccuracies and misunderstandings concerning high fructose corn syrup and the impact is has had on the American Diet.

John S. White, Ph.D president of White Technical Research says, “Contrary to its name, high fructose corn sysrup is essentially a corn sugar.” James M. Rippe, M.D. and cardiologist then adds, “By every parameter yet measured in human beings, high fructose corn syrup and sugar are identical. This is not surprising since high fructose corn syrup and sugar are metabolized the same by the body, have the same level of sweetness and the same number of calories per gram.”

The American Medical Association has helped to put to rest a common misunderstanding that there is a connection between high fructose corn syrup and obesity. The AMA then states that “high fructose syrup does not appear to contribute to obesity any more than other caloric sweeteners.

“This is a marketing issue, not a metabolic issue,” says David Klureld, Ph.D the national program leader for human nutrition in the USDA’s Agricultural Research Service and the editor of the June 2009 report in the Journal of Nutrition Supplement, “The State of the Science on Dietary Sweeteners Containing Fructose” Klurfeld adds, “The real issue is not high fructose corn syrup. It’s that we’ve forgotten what a real serving size is. We have to eat less of everything.”

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