Comment on That gourmet luxury blend...

• Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I can see it being useful if you’re making candy. Different sugars crystallize differently, so it’s not uncommon to mix corn syrup and sugar to get the right ratio.

  But they’re also making “pancake syrup” that is corn syrup dyed and flavored to approximate maple syrup which is a crime against nature.

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  • decerian@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    If you’re mixing things up in the kitchen, typically you try to be somewhat precise with ratios.

    The difference in this case being that because the actual ratio of the blend is unknown, you don’t actually know how it would crystallize. Technically they could even change up the ratio week to week based on the price of high-fructose corn syrup so you wouldn’t even get consistency from it.

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  • chetradley@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Even brands like log cabin who claim to use “no high fructose corn syrup” are just corn syrup and sugar. There are people who go their entire lives eating pancake syrup and table syrup on their pancakes, and die never having tasted actual maple syrup.

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  • grue@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I can see it being useful if you’re making candy. Different sugars crystallize differently, so it’s not uncommon to mix corn syrup and sugar to get the right ratio.

    Nobody making candy would every use this pre-blended product; they’d want to combine the two different sugars themselves so they could control the ratio.

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  • nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Isn’t that what the cheap syrup has always been? IHOP basically built their whole company on it.

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• CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Hot take, but it’s not a bad technology. It’s just heavily overused because US farm subsidies.

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  • Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Eh, too much fructose and your body stops processing it. Fructose doesn’t actually trigger your body to use it, and if you don’t have enough other sugars present, it causes problems. Not an issue in moderation, but high-fructose syrup is used in so many things that it’s a real concern.

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    • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      TIL. It sounds like there’s some debate about that, from what I can see, but it is a thing.

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      • Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Yeah, just about any diet will have enough other carbs to work, but if all you eat is white bread and pepsi, that will be another issue with your diet.

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