A farmer harvests corn along southbound Interstate 35 in Iowa on Nov. 23, 2024. (Photo by Cami Koons/Iowa Capital Dispatch) Corn, the nation’s largest crop, is produced for a variety of uses, ...

Corn is a healthy whole food, but it’s also the starting point for many highly processed byproducts. Among the most common (and most often demonized): high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS). This liquid ...

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 ...

High fructose corn syrup — an ingredient in everything from soda to ketchup to pickles — has such a bad reputation that the Corn Refiners Association (CRA) wants to change the name of the popular ...

This staple ingredient is a baker’s secret weapon. When I started to work a night shift at a bakery after cooking school, I was humbled by the odd hours. And I was equally humbled by corn syrup. What ...