This article from Slate is interesting. It makes the point that the case against high-fructose corn syrup is not a particularly solid one:
So there's every reason to believe that fructose is worse for you than glucose, at least taken pound-for-pound. But it's another thing altogether to suggest that high-fructose corn syrup is worse for you than other caloric sweeteners. Despite its name, HFCS doesn't contain much more fructose than table sugar—the product refined from beets or sugar cane.
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My main problem with HFCS is the ‘C’, corn. I’m allergic to corn (nothing lethal, it just leads to nasal and throat congestion) and find it almost impossible to avoid in commercial beverages. Hey, Big Beverage: Why must everything be made so sweet? Why not make things with 1/2 the sugar also be 1/2 as sweet? How about unsweetened options? Even the newer artificial sweeteners–like Truvia in the new VitaminWater 10–are so sickly sweet they’re unpalatable, IMHO.