Wednesday, August 29, 2012
CORN SYRUP (medium)
HELLO again team so i have had the honor to visit the science pub talk so what is science pub? it is a group of scientist around oregon who set up speaches for certain subjects and they want volunteers to speek like perfesional scientists. so last night we had a scientist come up and talk to us about corn syrup. And what he had to say was very very interesting. Over time from the 1900 between now we have eaten so much corn syrup that it is scary im actually suprised that we even eat that much corn syrup everyday. Well there is 2 types of things that are bad for you think of this there used to be corn syrup just regular but then the government found out that if you procces the material a little more it become high fructose corn syrup. and not only was it sweeter but it was cheeper for the government to put that into every day foods to make them taste better. So if you wanted to check out more of these speaches then check out on google: SCIENCE PUB
have a nice one!
sincerly,Clark.Ahrendt
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Clark my take on the High Fructose Corn Syrup presentation was the government paid the farmers to grow corn whether it was needed or not. This caused the price of Corn to drop which made a surplus of corn on the market.
ReplyDeleteWhen this happened companies experimented with ways to use this cheap commodity to put it in food products and they developed HFCS.
These additives were then added to all sorts of food products (cookies, soda, you name it).
Because of this the price of Soda for example has dropped since the introduction of High Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS).
The speaker also mentioned this is an issue only in the USA because other countries have not subsidized the agricultural industry like the USA has.
As you get older and near voting age make sure you think about what should be approved and what should not be approved carefully.
In this example it seems harmless enough to give farmers $ for growing products but sometimes there are unforeseen effects to these types of seemingly charitable acts. Which is what I think happened with HFCS.