High-fructose corn syrup rarely introduces itself by name. On labels it can appear as corn syrup, corn syrup solids, glucose-fructose syrup, or isoglucose. Same ingredient, different badge. Here is the frame worth keeping: sweeteners can be split into several names so no single one has to sit at the top of the ingredient list. Ingredients are listed by weight, which means a product can be mostly sugar without the word sugar ever appearing first. Recognition beats fear. If two or more names for sugar show up in the first five ingredients, you are holding a dessert, whatever the front of the package says. Full profile on the Dirty List at dietdiscipline.com/the-dirty-list.
