If you’ve ever made pecan pie or whipped up a batch of homemade caramels, you’ve probably reached for a bottle of corn syrup. It’s quietly essential to countless sweets, yet it’s surrounded by ...

High-fructose corn syrup is a liquid sweetener made from corn. When corn starch is broken down into individual molecules, it becomes corn syrup, which is 100 percent glucose, a simple sugar. Special ...

Tyson Foods, one of the largest food companies in the U.S. says it’s removing five chemical additives from its most popular brands. Although the move is voluntary, it aligns with Health Secretary ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Tyson Foods takes a bold step toward cleaner labels, cutting corn syrup and controversial additives from its products | ©Image ...

With the advent of processed byproducts, the cheap way to sweeten products has been alchemy: turning American corn into a sugar substitute. But “high fructose corn syrup” has acquired a very bad ...

Yesterday the Food and Drug Administration denied the Corn Refiners Association (CRA) petition to rename high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS) as “corn sugar,” a request they had made almost two years ago, ...

Ingredients such as salt and corn syrup that the Food and Drug Administration calls "generally recognized as safe" can be used in foods without thorough government review. The head of the Health and ...