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Sat, 21 Aug 2004 12:39:23 -0400
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Re: Corn Syrup
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Lloyd Spear wrote:

 > First, there are two common grades of corn syrup.  High Fructose Corn
Syrup
 > ("HFCS") 42 and HFCS 55.

The 55 and 42 is the amount of fructose while the rest is glucose.

To complicate matters there are two ways to make HFCS, one of which is
acid hydrolysis. It is deadly to bees. Most is enzyme produced so the
danger is slight, but there have been some large kills from its use.
Pays to read the label.

Bill Truesdell
Bath, Maine

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