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** The common complaint is that it contains chlorine... which is found in most tap-water.

** As mentioned above, the backlash against this is driving brands like Coke and Pepsi ''back'' to advertising the "[[All-Natural Snake Oil|natural sugar]]" they contain, where previously they banked on artificial sweeteners.

* High fructose corn syrup, the currently-trendy "evil" of the food industry,<ref>Actually, not all that different from [http://junkfoodscience.blogspot.com/2007/05/science-of-sweets.html table] [http://obesitymyths.com/myth9.1.htm sugar]</ref> is beginning to be called "corn sugar" to lessen its "evil" connotations.

* High fructose corn syrup, the currently-trendy "evil" of the food industry,<ref>Actually, not all that different from [http://junkfoodscience.blogspot.com/2007/05/science-of-sweets.html table] [https://web.archive.org/web/20131027073527/http://obesitymyths.com/myth9.1.htm sugar]</ref> is beginning to be called "corn sugar" to lessen its "evil" connotations.

** One brand of pancake syrup (Log Cabin, if memory serves) proudly touts itself as being corn-syrup free...and when you read the ingredients, you realize that the main ingredient has been changed to ''rice'' syrup. As though that's any better.

*** It's different. Might actually be better. HFCS is basically fructose and glucose, both monosaccarides. Rice Syrup is maltose and maltotriose, more complex sugars that digest more slowly and break down (via enzymes in the gut) entirely into glucose. It's unclear whether this matters to non-diabetics or not.